LIN 26/055
Migration (Complying Entrepreneur Activity—Funding Entities) Instrument 2026
I, Tony Burke, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, make the following instrument.
Dated 18 September 2026
Tony Burke
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
Contents
1 Name 1
2 Commencement 1
3 Authority 1
4 Schedules 1
5 Definitions 1
6 Specified entities for a complying entrepreneur activity 1
Schedule 1—Repeals 3
Specification of Entities 2016/074 3
This instrument is the Migration (Complying Entrepreneur Activity—Funding Entities) Instrument 2026.
This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.
This instrument is made under paragraph 5.19E(6)(b) of the Migration Regulations 1994.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
In this instrument:
higher education provider has the meaning given in section 16-1 of the Higher Education Support Act.
Higher Education Support Act means the Higher Education Support Act 2003.
Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.
Table A providers has the meaning given by section 16-15 of the Higher Education Support Act.
Table B providers has the meaning given by section 16-20 of the Higher Education Support Act.
6 Specified entities for a complying entrepreneur activity
For the purposes of paragraph 5.19E(5)(b) of the Regulations, each of the following entities are specified under paragraph 5.19E(6)(b) of the Regulations:
(a) all agencies of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
(b) bodies that undertake publicly funded research or innovation initiatives and are established under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
(c) investors registered or conditionally registered as venture capital limited partnerships or early stage venture capital limited partnerships under Part 2 of the Venture Capital Act 2002 as in force from time to time; and
(d) higher education providers listed under Part 2-1 of the Higher Education Support Act as in force from time to time as:
(i) Table A providers; or
(ii) Table B providers.
Note: Subsection 16-5(3) of the Higher Education Support Act provides that a higher education provider ceases to be a provider if the provider’s approval is revoked or suspended under Division 22 or the notice of the provider’s approval ceases to have effect under Part 2 of Chapter 3 (parliamentary scrutiny of legislative instruments) of the Legislation Act 2003.
Specification of Entities 2016/074
1 The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.
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