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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Miscellaneous provisions - Register of licensed immigration advisers

78A: Registrar may restrict public access to register

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“The register keeper can hide some adviser information to protect privacy and safety”

The person in charge of the register of licensed immigration advisers can stop or limit people from seeing some information about advisers. They can do this if someone asks them to, or if they decide to do it themselves.

They might do this to protect someone’s privacy or safety. This could be for current advisers or people who used to be advisers.

They can also hide information about advisers who are protected by a family violence order or have a court order to keep their information private.

When the person in charge hides information, they can set rules about who can see it and how. If they’re hiding information because of a protection order or court order, they have to make sure their rules match what the order says.

This rule doesn’t change what the Official Information Act says about sharing information.

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Part 2 Miscellaneous provisions
Register of licensed immigration advisers

78ARegistrar may restrict public access to register

  1. Despite section 78, the Registrar may, on a request from a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) or on the Registrar’s own motion, prevent or restrict public access to any information that relates to—

  2. a licensed immigration adviser or a person who is no longer a licensed immigration adviser if the Registrar considers that public access to that information would be likely to prejudice the privacy or safety of any person; or
    1. a licensed immigration adviser or a person who is no longer a licensed immigration adviser if that person is—
      1. a protected person in relation to a protection order under the Family Violence Act 2018; or
        1. a person for whose benefit a suppression provision or order applies under any legislation.

        2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the Registrar may prevent or restrict access subject to any terms and conditions that the Registrar thinks fit.

        3. However, in the case of subsection (1)(b), the Registrar must ensure that those terms and conditions are consistent with the protection order or suppression provision or order.

        4. This section does not limit the Official Information Act 1982.

        Notes
        • Section 78A: inserted, on , by section 40 of the Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 10).