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Purpose

Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) provides a skills assessment service for people with trade skills gained overseas or in Australia for the purpose of various working visa applications. Regulation 5.40 of the Migration Regulations provides for the Minister to specify the fee payable to a non-corporate Commonwealth entity for performing such services. As the TRA is a business area within the Department of Education, Skills and Employment, which is a non-corporate Commonwealth entity under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, the fees for applications to TRA can be specified under regulation 5.40.

The purpose of the instrument is to specify under subregulation 5.40(1) of the Migration Regulations:

- the fees payable to TRA for an application of assessment of a person¡¦s occupational qualifications or experience (or both) and educational qualifications (under paragraphs (a) and (b)); and

- the fees payable for an application for internal review of an assessment (paragraph (c)).

The instrument also removes specification of fees in relation to applications for the Trades Recognition Service (TRS) and Skilled Worker Program (SWP) that are no longer in operation. The TRS was a service within the TRA that closed on 1 December 2020, and the SWP was replaced by the Migration Skills Assessment in July 2011.

Source: LIN21023.pdf and LIN21023-Explanatory-Statement.pdf