Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Act 2026

No. 39, 2026

An Act to amend the Migration Act 1958, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Migration Act 1958 3

Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Act 2026

No. 39, 2026

An Act to amend the Migration Act 1958, and for related purposes

[Assented to 8 April 2026]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act is the Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Act 2026.
2 Commencement 1

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information Commencement information Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provisions Commencement Date/Details
1. The whole of this Act A single day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 2

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Amendments

Migration Act 1958

 1 Subsection 5(1)

Insert:

ABN has the meaning given by the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999.

 2 At the end of Subdivision BA of Division 3A of Part 2

Add:

 140GD Publishing information about approved work sponsors 1

The Secretary may publish on the Department’s website information (including personal information) that:

 a

relates to an approved work sponsor; and

 b

is prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.

Note: This subsection constitutes an authorisation for the purposes of the Privacy Act 1988.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 6 November 2025

Senate on 27 November 2025]

(99/25)

 2

Without limiting paragraph (1)(b), the regulations may prescribe the following information:

 a

the kind of approved work sponsor;

 b

the name of the approved work sponsor;

 c

the approved work sponsor’s ABN;

 d

the postcode (if any) associated with the approved work sponsor’s ABN;

 e

the number of nominations made by the approved work sponsor under subsection 140GB(1);

 f

the kinds of occupations covered by nominations made by the approved work sponsor under subsection 140GB(1).

 3

The regulations must not prescribe information that is a personal identifier.

 4

The regulations may prescribe circumstances in which the Secretary must not publish information under subsection (1).