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2002-2003
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Education
Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment Bill
2003
No. ,
2003
(Education, Science and
Training)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997,
and for related purposes
Contents
Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act
1997 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Education Services for
Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997, and for related
purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Education Services for Overseas Students
(Registration Charges) Amendment Act 2003.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any
other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its
terms.
The amendments made by Schedule 1 apply:
(a) to the annual registration charge for the first calendar year after
the calendar year in which this Act commences and all later calendar years;
and
(b) to the initial registration charge for registrations on or after
1 January in the first calendar year after the calendar year in which this
Act commences.
Education Services for
Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997
1 Subsection 5(2)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(2) The amount of the charge for the provider for the year is the sum
of:
(a) $300; and
(b) $25 multiplied by the total enrolments for the provider in the
previous year.
Note 1: The dollar amounts are indexed under section 7
for 2005 and later years.
Note 2: A dollar amount may be different if an instrument
under section 5A is in force.
2 Subsection 5A(1)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(1) The Governor-General may make a written instrument providing
that:
(a) a dollar amount specified in paragraph 5(2)(a) or (b) is replaced by
the dollar amount specified in the instrument; or
(b) the dollar amounts specified in paragraphs 5(2)(a) and (b) are
replaced by the dollar amounts specified in the instrument.
3 Subsection 5A(3)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(3) The instrument may provide that a replacement dollar amount or amounts
apply to one class of provider only, or may provide different replacement dollar
amounts for different classes of provider.
4 Subsection 5A(5)
Omit all the words after “the relevant years is”, substitute
“worked out using the replacement dollar amount or amounts specified in
the instrument instead of the dollar amount or amounts that would otherwise have
applied”.
5 Subsection 7(1)
Omit “1997”, substitute “2004”.
6 Subsection 7(1A)
Omit “2001”, substitute “2004”.
7 Subsection 7(2)
Omit all the words from and including “Each amount of charge”
to and including “section 5A”, substitute “The dollar
amounts specified in subsection 5(2) or in an instrument in effect under
section 5A”.