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Wu (Migration) [2023] AATA 3804 (8 November 2023)
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Wu (Migration) [2023] AATA 3804 (8 November 2023)
DECISION RECORD
DIVISION: Migration & Refugee Division
APPLICANTS: Ms Yihong Wu
Mr Yajian Wu
Mr Yulun Wu
Miss Ruoyu
Wu
REPRESENTATIVE: Ms Lin Liu (MARN: 9791315)
CASE NUMBER: 2103471
HOME AFFAIRS
REFERENCE(S): BCC2019/1559661
MEMBER: Robyn Anderson
DATE: 8 November 2023
PLACE OF DECISION: Melbourne
DECISION: The Tribunal remits the applications for Business Innovation
and Investment (Permanent) Subclass 888 visas for reconsideration, with
the
direction that the first named applicant meets the following criteria for a
Subclass 888 visa:
- cl 888.241
of Schedule 2 to the Regulations.
Statement made on 8 November 2023 at 3.15pm.
CATCHWORDS
MIGRATION – Business Skills (Permanent) visa
– Subclass 888 – Significant Investor stream – funds
used to make the investment were unencumbered and lawfully acquired –
investment made
by the applicant has been made “with” her spouse
– it is irrelevant whether the transfer of funds equates to a
withdrawal
– the investment is a complying investment for the purposes of cl
888.241(2A)(b) – decision under review
remitted
LEGISLATION
Migration Act 1958, s
65
Migration Regulations 1994, rr 1.03, 5.19, Schedule 2, cl
888.241
STATEMENT OF DECISION AND REASONS
APPLICATION FOR
REVIEW
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This is an application for review of a decision made by a delegate of the
Minister for Home Affairs on 11 March 2021 to refuse to
grant the visa applicant
a Business Innovation and Investment (Permanent) Subclass 888 visa under
s 65 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) (the Act).
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The visa applicants applied for the visa on 28 March 2019. The delegate refused
to grant the visas on the basis that the complying
investment in Oliver Hume
Australia Property Income Fund (the OH Fund) was not jointly held in both the
primary applicant’s
name and the name of her spouse. The delegate
concluded that the holding of units in the complying investment in the
individual names
of the applicant and the applicant’s spouse did not meet
the criterion under reg 5.19B(5)(b). Consequently, the applicants
were not
able to meet all of the criteria under cl 888.241 of Schedule 2 to the
Migration Regulations 1994 (the Regulations); more specifically,
cl 888.241(2A)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations.
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The applicant lodged an application for an independent review by the Tribunal
on 18 March 2021. The Tribunal received submissions
on 19 March 2021. The matter
was constituted to a Tribunal Member on 5 July 2023. On 13 July 2023, the
Tribunal wrote to the applicants
to invite them to attend a hearing on 18 August
2023. As the representative was unavailable, the Tribunal granted a reschedule
request
on 20 July 2023.
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The Tribunal received further submissions and evidence on 21 August 2023.
The first named applicant (the applicant) and second‑named
applicant (the
applicant’s spouse) appeared before the Tribunal on 22 September 2023 to
give evidence and present arguments.
They gave oral evidence and presented
arguments on affirmation.
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The Tribunal hearing was conducted with the assistance of an interpreter in the
Mandarin and English languages.
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The applicants were represented in relation to the review by their registered
migration agent.
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On 22 September 2023, the Tribunal deferred making a decision in this matter to
allow additional time for the applicants to provide
further evidence and
submissions in support of their case.
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The Tribunal received further submissions and evidence on 6 October 2023. For
the following reasons, the Tribunal has concluded
that the matter should be
remitted for reconsideration.
CONSIDERATION OF CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE
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According to Departmental records, the applicants were granted a Subclass 188
visa in the Significant Investor stream on 27 April
2015 and the visa ceased on
29 March 2019. In response to a question from the tribunal, the applicant stated
that her spouse loves
the freedom, openness and inclusivity that exists in
Australia. As such, they decided to commence the process to try and eventually
settle here with the children.
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The applicant gave oral evidence that when she applied for the Subclass 188
visa in mid‑2014, she was working as a public
servant on a full-time basis
in a province near Shanghai earning around RMB100,000 per annum. This equates to
just over AUD20,000
per annum.
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The applicant’s spouse’s family had operated a construction company
since taking it over from the Communist Party in
around 1983–1985. He told
the Tribunal that he currently has a 99% shareholding in the construction
company, his mother holding
the remaining 1%. He has also expanded into
financial investments, fire safety facilities and artificial intelligence
technology
through some 13 other limited liability companies. He further stated
that the combined annual turnover of his businesses approximates
RMB 0.3 to 0.5
billion. This equates to approximately AUD60 to AUD100 million per annum.
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The applicant gave oral evidence that her spouse provided the funds to make the
complying investment. AUD5 million was transferred
to the applicant’s
Bank of China account and then transferred to the applicant’s Commonwealth
Bank of Australia account.
The applicant then invested the AUD5 million
with the OH Fund on 7 April 2015 in her sole name.
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The applicant told the Tribunal that later in 2015 her accountant advised her
to transfer some of the investment into her spouse’s
name to save on
taxation. This was because the applicant was residing in Australia with the
children who were attending school. This
meant that she was considered to be a
resident for tax purposes and consequently was taxed accordingly. In contrast,
as her spouse
resided in Australia for less than 180 days per annum, he was
considered to be a foreign resident and was taxed via withholding at
a fixed
rate of 10%.
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The applicant further stated that she consulted with her representative in late
October about such a possibility. Evidence was before
the Tribunal in respect of
email exchanges between the representative and the Department. On 2 November
2015, a member of the Business
Skills team in Adelaide responded to the
representative’s query as follows:
The spouse can be included
as a joint holder along with your client in the property fund investment.
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A further query in relation to allowable percentages for an investor and spouse
received the following response on 9 November 2015:
There is no set
percentage for each person (i.e. the primary applicant or their spouse)
regarding their contributions as long as they
are joint holders.
A copy of the Departmental policy in GenGuide M – Business Visas
– Visa application and related procedures (PAM3) at 51.1
was provided for
reference.
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The applicant then submitted an application form, dated 26 November 2015, and
covering letter to Mr Rogers of Oliver Hume Property
Funds, requesting that 85%
of her investment in the OH Fund, or AUD4,250,000 be transferred to her spouse.
The application form records
the type of entity making the investment as an
individual. In response to a question from the Tribunal as to why the applicant
did
not mark the box “Joint investor”, the applicant stated that she
did not understand that there was a difference. In her
mind, in accordance with
their culture, if you are married, all assets are jointly owned, regardless of
whether they are held in
the name of the husband or the wife.
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A letter from Mr Rogers of Oliver Hume Property Funds, dated 20 September 2023,
was received by the Tribunal after the hearing.
He explained that the OH Fund is
a pooled fund, whereby the funds from individual investors are aggregated for
the purpose of investment
then invested together in mortgages and term deposits.
He went on to state that his understanding was “that at all times the
client’s intention was to ensure their investment complied with the SIV
requirements and the transfer of units to the applicant’s
spouse in
November 2015 was intended to be consistent with the requirement that the
complying investment be made ‘directly
by the primary applicant and their
spouse or de facto partner together’, notwithstanding this intention
was not made clear
on the application form, which it seems was filled out
incorrectly having regard to that intention”. He further confirmed that
the request on the application form was given effect by way of an administration
adjustment by the trustee when the application was
processed on 26 November
2015. The transfer was not recorded as a joint holding of the applicant and her
spouse together, but in
the name of her spouse as a separate unit holder.
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Mr Rogers also confirmed that 55% of the units in the OH Fund were redeemed on
6 December 2019. As this is more than four years
after the initial
investment was made, it has no bearing on this review.
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Clause 888.241 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations relates specifically to
applicants seeking to satisfy the primary criteria for a
Subclass 888 visa in
the Significant Investor stream.
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As the applicants at the time of application had held a Subclass 188 (Business
Innovation and Investment (Provisional)) visa in
the Significant Investor stream
for a continuous period of three years and 11 months and applied for it before
1 July 2015, the Tribunal
is satisfied that cl 888.241(1)(c)(i) of
Schedule 2 to the Regulations is met.
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The Tribunal finds that at the date of application, the applicant had not held
a Subclass 188 Business Innovation and Investment
(Provisional) visa in the
Significant Investor Extension stream that was granted on the basis of their
Subclass 188 visa in the Significant
Investor stream. Therefore, the Tribunal is
also satisfied that the applicant meets the criterion under
cl 888.241(1)(c)(ii) of Schedule
2 to the Regulations. As such, the
applicant has met all of the criteria under cl 888.241(1) of Schedule 2 to the
Regulations and
the Tribunal so finds.
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Clause 888.241(2) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations requires the applicant to
meet the requirements of either subclause (2A) or (2B).
As the applicant was
granted a Subclass 188 visa prior to 1 July 2015, it is cl 888.241(2A) that is
applicable as per cl 888.241(2A)(a)
of Schedule 2 to the Regulations.
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Clause 888.241(2A)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations requires that the
applicant has held, for the whole of the period during
which the applicant has
held the Subclass 188 visa, a complying investment within the meaning of reg
5.19B as in force at the time
the application was made. It is undisputed that
the time in which the applicant is required to have held a complying investment
is
27 April 2015 to 29 March 2019.
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Regulation 5.19B defines complying investment as follows:
(1) An investment by a person (the investor) is a complying
investment if all of the requirements in this regulation are met.
Description
(2) The investment must consist of one or more of the following:
(a) an investment in a government bond (however described) of the Commonwealth,
a State or Territory; or
(b) a direct investment in an Australian proprietary company that meets the
following requirements:
(i) the company is not listed on an Australian stock exchange;
(ii) the company has not been established wholly or substantially for the
purpose of creating compliance with this paragraph;
(iii) the investment is an ownership interest in the company;
(c) an investment in a managed fund (directly or through an investor directed
portfolio service) for a purpose specified by the Minister
in an instrument, in
writing, for this paragraph.
(3) The funds used to make the investment are:
(a) unencumbered; and
(b) lawfully acquired.
Investor
(4) The investor must be an individual.
(5) The investor must make the investment:
(a) personally; or
(b) with the investor’s spouse or de facto partner; or
(c) by means of a company that has issued shares and in which:
(i) the investor holds all of the issued shares; or
(ii) the investor and the investor’s spouse
or de facto partner hold all of the issued shares; or
(d) by means of a trust:
(i) that is lawfully established; and
(ii) of which:
- (A) the investor
is the sole trustee; or
- (B) the investor
and the investor’s spouse or de facto partner are the sole
trustees; and
(iii) of which:
- (A) the investor
is the sole beneficiary; or
- (B) the investor
and the investor’s spouse or de facto partner are the sole
beneficiaries.
(6) If:
(a) an investor withdraws money from a complying investment, or cancels the
investment; and
(b) the investor makes an investment of at least the value of the withdrawn
money or cancelled investment in one or more other investments
mentioned in
sub‑regulation (2); and
(c) no more than 30 days passes between the events mentioned in
paragraphs (a) and (b);
the investment is taken not to have ceased to be a complying investment
during the period between the events mentioned in paragraphs
(a) and (b).
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The Tribunal is cognisant that the criteria in respect of a complying
investment under reg 5.19B also had to be met for the applicants
to be
granted their Subclass 188 visa in 2015.
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In relation to reg 5.19B(2), the Tribunal notes that a Form 1413 Declaration
was provided to the Department by the OH Fund, signed
by the director of the OH
Fund, Mr Rogers, on 25 January 2019. Mr Rogers confirms that the OH Fund is a
managed fund and meets the
definition set out in reg 1.03 of the Regulations;
that is, that the investments are limited to the purposes specified by the
Minister
in respect of reg 5.19B(2)(c). The Tribunal is therefore satisfied
that the OH Fund is an investment in a managed fund in accordance
with the
requirements of reg 5.19B(2)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations. This finding
is undisputed.
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Based on the oral evidence of the applicants and the Department’s finding
in 2015 that the funds used to make the investment
were unencumbered and
lawfully acquired, the Tribunal is satisfied that reg 5.19B(3) is met.
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Reg 5.19B(4) requires that the investor be an individual. Both the applicant
and her spouse have made their respective investments
in the OH Fund as
individuals and the Tribunal so finds.
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The contentious issue in this matter is in relation to reg 5.19B(5); that is,
in relation to how the investment was made.
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The initial Unit Certificate in the name of the applicant is dated 7 April 2015
and records her investment of 5 million units. It
is unclear why the Unit
Certificates issued to the applicant and her spouse in July 2016 were dated 1
October 2015 or why the Holding
Statement issued to each of them in June 2022
records their respective allotments of 750,000 and 4,250,000 units as occurring
on
1 October 2015. This is before the applicant’s application on
26 November 2015 to transfer a portion of the investment to her
spouse. In
any event, it is undisputed that the applicant and her spouse held their own
separate unit holdings, albeit within the
same aggregated investment.
-
The Tribunal accepts the oral and written evidence before it that the intention
was not for the applicant and her spouse to hold
separate unit holdings.
However, the fact remains that they did. They received distributions
independently of each other, as evidenced
on the Distribution Summary Statements
from Oliver Hume in respect of the period 31 June 2015 to 31 March 2021 for
the applicant
and for the period 31 December 2015 to 31 March 2021 for the
applicant’s spouse. Furthermore, it was open to either of them
to sell
their units independently of the other.
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Regulation 5.19B(5) gives four options for an individual to invest: personally,
with the investor’s spouse or de facto partner, by means of a company,
or
by means of a trust. If investing by means of a company, the investor must
either hold 100% of the shares or the investor and
spouse or de facto partner
must hold all of the shares. If investing by means of a trust, the investor must
be the sole beneficiary,
or the investor and the spouse or de facto partner must
be the sole beneficiaries.
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In relation to reg 5.19B(5)(b), the applicant submitted that she has invested
“with her spouse” as they both hold units
in the same investment.
She considers that she and her spouse have invested together because each of
them hold units in the same
aggregated investment. Furthermore, as discussed
above, in her view they both have ownership of the AUD5 million investment
because
they were married, irrespective of which of their names the units were
held in. She further stated that in China, “jointly
held” is not
really a concept. She considers “together” to be an extremely broad
description.
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As discussed at hearing, the issue at hand hinges largely on the interpretation
of the word “with”. Advice to the representative
from Mr Lanyon of
Collins, Biggers and Paisley, dated 26 September 2023, and Mr Hall of ANZ
Migrate, dated 3 October 2023, were provided
after the hearing. The advice from
Mr Lanyon was in relation to the case of David Securities Pty Ltd v
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (David Securities) in which transfer of
property under a mistake of fact or a mistake of law by the transferor is
recoverable unless
the property is untraceable or where it would be inequitable
for the transferor to claim restitution because of the transferee’s
adverse change of position.
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The Tribunal notes that the case of David Securities relates to circumstances
where a payment has been made. The applicants assert
that no payment was made in
this case and that no funds were withdrawn. The letter from Mr Rogers of Oliver
Hume Property Group,
dated 20 September 2023, is adamant that there was no
payment or transfer of funds associated with the transfer. The Tribunal is
of
the opinion that without any payment, this matter is distinguished from that of
David Securities.
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Mr Lanyon also advised in relation to the case of Oliver Hume Property Funds
(Broad Gully Rd) Diamond Creek Pty Ltd vs Commissioner of State Revenue (Review
and Regulation) that the acquisition by the applicant and her spouse
“formed substantially one arrangement” and should therefore not
be
viewed separately. In the case of Oliver Hume Property Funds (Broad Gully Rd)
Diamond Creek Pty Ltd vs Commissioner of State Revenue (Review and
Regulation), it was found that the acquisition of shares by
associated/related persons of the investor should be aggregated because the
acquisitions
form part of “substantially one arrangement”. However,
this was in relation to the initial offer and it was noted that
the Commissioner
will not regard acquisitions under a genuine public offer as an associated
transaction. The transfer of shares from
the applicant to her spouse was not in
relation to the initial offer and was therefore not a part of the aggregated
acquisition by
all unit holders. As such, the Tribunal is satisfied that the
case is distinguished from the matter under review.
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According to the Macquarie Dictionary, “and” has the meaning of
“with, along with, together with, besides, also”.
Case law has not
addressed the issue and the word “with” is not defined in the Act or
the Regulations. However, it is
not a technical legal word. Accordingly, it is
appropriate to consider its ordinary meaning. The Macquarie Dictionary defines
“with”
as a preposition, meaning “accompanied by or
accompanying” or to “have a particular relation to”. The
Cambridge
Dictionary defines “with” as “people or things doing
something together”. Mr Hall notes in his advice to
the representative
that in accordance with the Oxford Dictionary, “with” indicates
“association, connection or
interaction between two or more
parties”. In relation to the same Oxford Dictionary definition, Mr Lanyon
pointed out that
as the association of the applicant and her spouse is through
marriage, “it is arguably one of the closest connections between
two
people. There is a further association given that the ownership interests are in
the same investment”.
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Mr Hall further stated in his letter to the representative that in relation to
the interpretation of the word “with”,
that “to impose a
requirement for joint ownership would be to read into the Regulation a
stipulation that is not textually
present, thereby contravening the plain
meaning of the term as understood in everyday language”.
-
PAM3 discusses how an investment is to be made. While it is in the context of a
Subclass 188 visa because it is at the time of invitation
to apply for a
Subclass 188 visa that the investment must be made, reg 5.19B applies equally to
the Subclass 888 visa. At 51.1 of
PAM3, reg 5.19B(5)(b) is reworded as
“directly by the primary applicant and their spouse or de facto partner
together”. A similar type of rewording in relation to
reg 5.19B(5)(c) and reg 5.19B(5)(d) refers to the primary applicant or
the primary
applicant and their spouse or de facto partner together,
owning all of the issued shares in a company, or the primary applicant or the
primary applicant and their spouse or de facto partner
together, being
trustee/s and beneficiary/ies. This is despite the legislation using the word
“with” in relation to reg 5.19B(5)(b)
and using the word
“and” in respect of reg 5.19B(5)(c) and reg 5.19B(5)(d).
It seems that policy considers that the terms
“with” and
“and” have the same meaning.
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The Tribunal acknowledges that use of the word “with” or
“and” in the legislation is somewhat ambiguous,
particularly given
that other clauses in relation to the Subclass 888 visa, such as holders of net
assets, are more specific in explaining
the acceptable combinations of
ownership. For example, cl 888.225(2) and cl 888.225(4) of Schedule 2 to the
Regulations provide for
business and personal assets to be owned by “the
applicant, the applicant’s spouse or de facto partner or the applicant
and
his/her spouse or de facto partner together”. In the Tribunal’s
view, the word “together” lends itself
more to an interpretation of
jointly held than the word “with” or “and”.
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The Tribunal looked to the Explanatory Statement in relation to the
Migration Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 7), which introduced the
Significant Investor stream of the Subclass 188 visa.
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The Explanatory Statement sets out the purpose of the introduction of the
Significant Investor stream as being to “strengthen
and improve
immigration policy” by “providing a visa option for investors and
their families who invest at least five
million dollars into the Australian
economy”. Mr Hall submitted that “it would be unduly restrictive and
inequitable
to interpret the legislation as limiting the investment
responsibility solely to the primary investor, thereby excluding the family
unit
from participating in this significant financial commitment. Such a narrow
interpretation is not only inconsistent with the
overarching intent of the
Significant Investor stream, as outlined in the Migration Amendment
Regulation 2012 (No. 7), but also undermines the very essence of the
program’s objective. The program was explicitly designed to attract
“investors and their families to make substantial contributions to the
Australian economy”.
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Furthermore, “To refuse an application on the grounds that the investment
is not jointly held by the primary investor contradicts
the inclusive and
holistic spirit of the legislative intent, which aims to fortify the Australian
economy through the collective
financial commitment of the investor and their
family”.
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Mr Lanyon further stated in his letter to the representative that as regs
5.19B(5)(c) and 5.19B(5)(d) allow for investments to be
made in a variety of
ways that the Regulations are intended to be flexible in how investments can be
structured, as long as they
are confined to the family unit.
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The Tribunal considered the intention of the legislation, noting the purpose
described in the Explanatory Statement of “providing
a visa option for
investors and their families who invest at least five million dollars into the
Australian economy”. The Tribunal
also noted the specific reference in the
legislation to the words “with” or “and”, of the same
meaning, in
relation to their spouse or de facto partner in all of the methods
of investment set out in reg 5.19B(5). In the Tribunal’s
view this
eludes to an intention that families, for the purposes of making a complying
significant investment, are limited to an
investor and their spouse or de facto
partner, and it was not intended to include other family members. This appears
to be a deliberate
limitation on the flexibility of the means by which a
complying investment can be made.
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The ambiguity in reg 5.19B(5)(b) remains in relation to the method of investing
through a company, as ASIC allows shares to be held
in joint names, or
individual names. That is, for example, 10 shares can be owned jointly by Mr X
and Mrs X, or Mr X can hold 5 shares
in his own right and Mrs X can own 5 shares
in her own right. However, when it comes to the wording in relation to the
method of
investing through a trust, it is not possible to have a joint name
trustee or beneficiary, as eluded to in the wording “together”
in
PAM3. If an investor and spouse or de facto partner were to be trustees, they
are named individually. Similarly, if they were
to be beneficiaries of a trust,
they can only be so as individuals. Taxation and trust law in relation to
present entitlement does
not entertain a beneficiary being anything other than a
single individual or a single entity.
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Given that the words “with” and “and” have the same
dictionary meaning and are applied in reg 5.19B(5) to
investments made
through a trust, company or the investor with a spouse or de facto partner, it
logically follows that the same intention
should also apply for the purpose of
consistency. An investment through a trust requires the investor or investor and
spouse or de
facto partner to be trustees and beneficiaries (a corporate trustee
or beneficiary is not provided as an option). As this can only
be each as a
separate individual, the Tribunal concludes that it is also the intention that
an investment made by means of a company
could also have 100% of the shares in
the company owned by the investor and the investor’s spouse or de facto
partner either
jointly or individually. The same conclusion is drawn in relation
to reg 5.19B(5)(b), in that the investor investing “with”
their
spouse or de facto partner can mean either in joint names or as individuals.
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The Tribunal notes that whilst PAM3 may provide guidance, the Tribunal is not
bound to follow it. In this case, the Tribunal is
not satisfied that use of the
word “together” in PAM3 is consistent with the intention of the
legislation in relation
to reg 5.19B(5).
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The Tribunal accepts that it was simply a change of name as a result of an
unintended error on the application form that resulted
in the applicant’s
spouse holding units in the OH Fund as an individual. In any event, at all
material times during the four-year
period in which the investment must remain,
the units were held individually by the applicant and her spouse, or by the
applicant
with her spouse. To this end, the Tribunal is satisfied that this
aligns with the intention behind the Significant Investor stream.
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The investment made by the applicant has been made “with” her
spouse, as individuals in the same aggregated investment.
The Tribunal is
satisfied that they have invested into the OH Fund in accordance with reg
5.19B(5)(b). Therefore, the Tribunal finds
that the applicant meets
reg 5.19B(5).
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Regulation 5.19B(6) sets out what must be done if the investor withdraws money
from a complying investment or cancels the investment.
PAM3 explains that the
intention is that the applicant hold the complying investment continually for
the required four years. However,
there is scope for an investor to switch
between other complying investments if it is done so within 30 days.
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While Mr Rogers has confirmed that there was no physical withdrawal of funds
from the OH Fund, it could be argued that the transfer
of funds from the name of
the applicant to her spouse resulted in a withdrawal and immediate investment.
Regardless, even if this
was the case, as the investment was made on the same
day in the name of the applicant’s spouse, resulting in the applicant
“with” her spouse investing in the same complying investment, it is
irrelevant whether the transfer of funds equates
to a withdrawal. Accordingly,
the Tribunal finds that reg 5.19B(6) is also met.
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As all of the relevant criteria under reg 5.19B are met, the Tribunal finds
that the investment is a complying investment for the
purposes of
cl 888.241(2A)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations. Furthermore, as the
AUD5 million investment was made on 7 April 2015
and continued to be held
beyond 29 March 2019, the Tribunal is satisfied that the complying investment
was held for the whole of
the period during which the Subclass 188 visa was
held, thereby satisfying cl 888.241(2A)(b) of Schedule 2 to the
Regulations. Accordingly,
as all of the criteria under cl 888.241(2A) are
met, it follows that cl 888.241(2) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations is
met. The Tribunal
finds accordingly.
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As the complying significant investment was not held as a direct investment in
an Australian proprietary company, cl 888.241(3)
of Schedule 2 to the
Regulations is not applicable in this case.
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Relevantly, if cl 888.241(2A) applies, cl 888.241(4)(a) of Schedule 2 to the
Regulations requires the applicant to provide to the
Minister a completed copy
of approved Form 1413 for each investment in a managed fund on which the
investment mentioned in that subclause
is based. As noted above, the Form 1413
was provided to the Department, signed by Mr Rogers on 25 January 2019. Clause
888.241(4)(b)
of Schedule 2 to the Regulations is not applicable in this
case. Therefore, the Tribunal is satisfied that cl 888.241(4) has been
met.
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Consequently, as all of the criteria under cl 888.241 are met, the appropriate
course is to remit the matter to the Minister to
consider the remaining criteria
for the visa.
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The Tribunal finds that as the second, third and fourth named applicants
applied on the basis of being family unit members of the
first named applicant,
their applications will be determined by reference to the outcome of the first
named applicant’s application
on remittal to the Department for
reconsideration.
DECISION
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The Tribunal remits the applications for Business Innovation and Investment
(Permanent) Subclass 888 visas for reconsideration,
with the direction that the
first named applicant meets the following criteria for a Subclass 888 visa:
- cl 888.241
of Schedule 2 to the Regulations.
Robyn
Anderson
Member
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