Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) If:
(a) a migration agent ceases to be a migration agent of a client; and
(b) the agent later receives correspondence from a government official that:
(i) is addressed to the client; or
(ii) it is reasonable to assume was addressed to the agent because it was believed that the agent was, at the time the correspondence was sent, a current migration agent of the client;
the agent must take all reasonable steps to forward the correspondence to the former client or to a current migration agent of the former client.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to correspondence the migration agent receives more than 28 days after the agent gives written notice to:
(a) the Department; or
(b) a review authority at a time when an immigration matter in respect of the client is pending before the review authority;
that the agent has ceased to be a migration agent of the client.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), if:
(a) the client gave the Minister notice under subsection 494D(1) of the Act that the agent was authorised by the client to receive documents under the Act; and
(b) the client varies or withdraws the notice so that the agent is no longer the client's authorised recipient;
the agent is taken to have given written notice in accordance with that subsection at the later of:
(c) the time the client varies or withdraws the notice; and
(d) the time the client ceases to be a client of the agent.