Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 505

    To avoid doubt, regulations for the purpose of prescribing a criterion for visas of a class may provide that the Minister, when required to decide whether an applicant for a visa of the class satisfies the criterion:

  (a)   is to get a specified person or organisation, or a person or organisation in a specified class, to:

  (i)   give an opinion on a specified matter; or

  (ii)   make an assessment of a specified matter; or

  (iii)   make a finding about a specified matter; or

  (iv)   make a decision about a specified matter; and

  (b)   is:

  (i)   to have regard to that opinion, assessment, finding or decision in; or

  (ii)   to take that opinion, assessment, finding or decision to be correct for the purposes of;

    deciding whether the applicant satisfies the criterion.