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The legislative instrument note(s) listed below provide a description of the excluded positions which apply to particular occupations (as listed in table immediately above). For the specific wording of each caveat – see the legislative instrument section for the relevant visa program in the List of eligible skilled occupations.

Instrument Note(s) Description of excluded positions
1 Excludes positions which do not require minimum two years’ work experience.
Note: this exclusion does not currently apply to any occupation.
2 Excludes positions which have nominated annual earnings of less than AUD65,000.
3 Excludes positions that:
·         have nominated annual earnings of less than AUD65,000 and
·         if the person is to be transferred to fill the position—the transfer is not an intra-corporate transfer to which an international trade obligation applies.
4 Excludes positions that:
·         have nominated annual earnings of less than AUD80,000 and
·         if the person is to be transferred to fill the position—the transfer is not an intra-corporate transfer to which an international trade obligation applies.
5 Excludes positions that:
·         have nominated annual earnings of less than AUD180,001 and
·         if the person is to be transferred to fill the position—the transfer is not an intra-corporate transfer to which an international trade obligation applies.
6 Excludes clerical, bookkeeper or accounting clerk positions.
7 Excludes positions involved in mass production in a factory setting.
8 Excludes positions in a limited service restaurant.
A limited service restaurant includes, but is not limited to, the following:·fast food or takeaway food services·fast casual restaurants
·         drinking establishments that offer only a limited food service
·         limited service cafes including, but not limited to, coffee shops or mall cafes
·         limited service pizza restaurants.
9 Excludes positions that predominantly involve responsibility for low-skilled tasks, for example:
·         Rostering, maintaining records, reception duties and allocating duties to housekeepers, porters or doorpersons.
·         Fruit picking or packing or feeding of livestock or animals.
·         Truck driving.
10 Excludes positions that are not located in regional Australia.
11 Excludes any positions that:
·         are based in a front-line retail setting
·         predominantly involve direct client transactional interaction on a regular basis.
12 Excludes any positions that:
·         are not full-time
·         are not based in a therapeutic setting
·         involve the provision of non-medical relaxation massage or
·         are in a retail setting.
13 Excludes positions that predominantly involve hairdressing or beauty therapy related non-managerial tasks.
Note: this exclusion does not currently apply to any occupation.
14 Excludes any positions that:
·         are not located in a commercial building or shopping centre environment
·         predominantly involve managing the provision of only one particular service to a facility or managing one particular relationship. Example: Managing the cleaning contract for a facility but not other contracts relevant to the facility.
15 Excludes any positions that:
·         are based in a front-line retail setting
·         are based in a call centre and do not require a significant technical knowledge of products
·         predominantly involves selling educational courses to individual students.
16 Excludes positions that relate to mobile phone repairs.
17 Excludes positions that relate to mass or standardised production (as opposed to specialist production), including any of the below positions which:
·         are based in a franchise or factory
·         involve full or partial production of food product for distribution to another location
·         predominantly involve the use of pre-prepared food product from another location.
18 Excludes positions that relate to animal husbandry, including caring for livestock on a farm.
19 Excludes positions that are in a business that has an annual turnover of less than AUD1M.
20 Excludes positions that:
·         are in a business which has an annual turnover of less than AUD1M and
·         if the person is to be transferred to fill the position—the transfer is not an intra-corporate transfer to which an international trade obligation applies.
21 Excludes positions that are in a business that has fewer than five employees.
22 Excludes positions that:
·         are in a business that has fewer than five employees and
·         if the person is to be transferred to fill the position—the transfer is not an intra-corporate transfer to which an international trade obligation applies.
23 Excludes positions that have nominated annual earnings of less than AUD90,000.