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MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 96

Minister may set pool mark and pass mark

  (1)   The Minister may, from time to time, by notice in the Gazette , specify, in relation to a class of visas, the pool mark for the purposes of this Act and the regulations.

  (2)   The Minister may, from time to time, by notice in the Gazette , specify, in relation to applications for visas of a particular class, the pass mark for the purposes of this Act and the regulations.

  (3)   A notice under subsection   (1) or (2) operates to revoke the previous notice under that subsection in relation to the same class of visas and also operates as a variation of the mark specified in the previous notice.

  (4)   The Minister shall cause copies of each notice under subsection   (1) or (2) to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the publication of the notice in the Gazette .

  (5)   This Act does not prevent a pool mark and a pass mark from being equal.

  (6)   This Act does not prevent a pool mark and a pass mark from being varied independently of each other.


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