Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994 - REG 5.17

    For the purposes of paragraph   5(2)(b) of the Act (dealing with whether a person has functional English), the evidence referred to in each of the following paragraphs is prescribed evidence of the English language proficiency of a person:

  (a)   evidence specified by the Minister in an instrument in writing for this paragraph;

  (c)   evidence that:

  (i)   the person holds an award (being a degree, a higher degree, a diploma or a trade certificate) that required at least 2 years of full - time study or training; and

  (ii)   all instruction (including instruction received in other courses for which the person was allowed credit) for that award was conducted in English;

  (d)   if evidence referred to in paragraph   (a) cannot be provided by the person--evidence that the person has been determined by the Minister, on the basis of an interview with the person, to have functional English.