(1) A registered migration agent must notify the Migration Agents Registration Authority in writing within 14 days after any of the following events occurs:
(a) he or she becomes bankrupt;
(b) he or she applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors;
(c) he or she compounds with his or her creditors;
(d) he or she makes an assignment of remuneration for the benefit of his or her creditors;
(e) he or she is convicted of an offence under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory;
(ea) if the agent paid the non - commercial application charge in relation to the agent's current period of registration--the agent begins to give immigration assistance otherwise than on a non - commercial basis during that period;
(f) he or she becomes an employee, or becomes the employee of a new employer, and will give immigration assistance in that capacity;
(fa) he or she becomes a member of a partnership and will give immigration assistance in that capacity;
(g) if he or she is a member or an employee of a partnership and gives immigration assistance in that capacity--a member of the partnership becomes bankrupt;
(h) if he or she is an executive officer or an employee of a corporation and gives immigration assistance in that capacity:
(i) a receiver of its property or part of its property is appointed; or
(iii) it begins to be wound up.
(2) An offence against subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .
(3) The following terms used in paragraph (1)(ea) have the same meaning as in the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997 :
(a) begins (in relation to immigration assistance given otherwise than on a non - commercial basis);
(b) non - commercial application charge ;
(c) non - commercial basis (in relation to the basis on which immigration assistance is given).
(4) A registered migration agent must notify the Migration Agents Registration Authority in writing within 28 days after the agent becomes:
(a) a restricted legal practitioner; or
(b) an unrestricted legal practitioner.
(5) An offence against subsection (4) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .