Employment Permits Act 2006

Criteria to which regard is to be had in making regulations under section 14 .

15.— (1) The matters mentioned in subsections (1) and (2) of section 14 are—

(a) the qualifications or skills that, in the opinion of the Minister, are required for economic and social development and competitiveness in the period to which the regulations concerned under section 14 will relate (the “relevant period”),

(b) the economic sector or sectors that, in the opinion of the Minister, will be involved in the achievement of such economic and social development and competitiveness,

(c) the qualifications or skills that, in the opinion of the Minister, are required for the proper functioning of such economic sector or sectors in the relevant period, and

(d) if, in the opinion of the Minister, there is likely to be, during the relevant period, a shortage or surplus in respect of qualifications or skills falling within paragraph (c), an estimate as best the Minister may make (and which estimate the Minister is, by virtue of this section, required to make) of what the extent of that shortage or surplus will be.

(2) References in subsection (1) to qualifications or skills are references to qualifications or skills of employees.