Functions
The functions of the Office of the MARA are set out in s316 of the Migration Act 1958. Key objectives are to ensure that:
• only suitable persons are registered as migration agents, and unsuitable persons are refused registration or re-registration • registered agents maintain appropriate knowledge to enable them to provide accurate advice to consumers • all complaints about the services of registered, or formerly registered migration agents are appropriately addressed • the Office of the MARA works collaboratively with the department and other bodies such as prosecuting or regulatory authorities to address the activities of agents outside its mandate • consumers understand their rights and agents understand their obligations under the regulatory framework.
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Famous quotes containing the word functions:
“One of the most highly valued functions of used parents these days is to be the villains of their children’s lives, the people the child blames for any shortcomings or disappointments. But if your identity comes from your parents’ failings, then you remain forever a member of the child generation, stuck and unable to move on to an adulthood in which you identify yourself in terms of what you do, not what has been done to you.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
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—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
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—Kate Millett (b. 1934)