Australian Immigration Daily News

Purpose 

The instrument operates to specify arrangements for making a Working Holiday (Subclass 417) visa (subclass 417 visa) application.

Item 1225 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations prescribes the requirements that an applicant for a subclass 417 visa must meet to make a valid visa application. Subitems 1225(1) and (3) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations require that the application for a subclass 417 visa must be made using the approved form, at the place and in the manner, specified in relation to a class of persons that includes the applicant in a legislative instrument made under subregulation 2.07(5) of the Regulations. 

Division 417 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations prescribes the criteria to be considered for the grant of a subclass 417 visa once an application for that visa has been made. Subclause 417.211(2) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations provides that an applicant for a subclass 417 visa must hold a working holiday eligible passport of the kind or of one of the kinds, specified in a legislative instrument made for that subclause.

The subclause further provides that the applicant must be at least 18 years of age and no more than 35 years of age, or a younger age if that age is specified in a legislative instrument for the kind of passport that the applicant holds. A working holiday eligible passport is defined in subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 and clause 417.111 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations to mean a valid passport held by a person who is a member of a class of persons specified in a legislative instrument mentioned in subitem 1225(3) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations.

Source: LIN22051.pdf and LIN22051-Explanatory-Statement.pdf