Law Clerk (ANZSCO 599214)
On the Regional Occupation List
From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.
Which lists is Law Clerk on?
ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.
Visas this occupation can access
Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Law Clerk comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Group D: an AQF Certificate III or IV, with Pathway 3 alone accepting a bare Certificate III plus three years' highly relevant employment — no Certificate IV needed at all. VETASSESS describes the role as performing 'specialised clerical work associated with legal practice and law courts,' with the defining task 'assisting solicitors in areas of conveyancing, contracts, common law, probate and other legal practice matters.'
Where these applications come unstuck
ROL-only — VETASSESS states directly that 'this occupation is only available for the skilled employer sponsored regional (provisional) visa (subclass 494),' the same ceiling as Legal Executive despite a lower entry qualification. The task list sits closer to substantive case content than Legal Secretary's office-administration work, which is exactly why 'paralegal' job ads blur the two — an applicant doing Law-Clerk-shaped work who nominates Legal Secretary to chase its CSOL reach risks the assessment failing on task-content grounds.
An honest read on this pathway
A lower entry bar than Legal Secretary or Legal Executive on paper, but the same narrow 494 ceiling — this family's pattern that visa reach tracks list membership, not qualification level or how close the task list sits to substantive legal work. No labour-agreement or DAMA route around that ceiling was found for this code in the tracked sponsor lanes.
VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.
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