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MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (STUDENT VISAS) BILL 2012
2010-2011-2012
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Migration Legislation Amendment
(Student Visas) Bill 2012
No. , 2012
(Immigration and Citizenship)
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to
migration and education services for overseas
students, and for related purposes
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Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule(s)
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000
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Migration Act 1958
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Migration Legislation Amendment (Student Visas) Bill 2012 No. , 2012 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to
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migration and education services for overseas
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students, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Migration Legislation Amendment
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(Student Visas) Act 2012.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provision(s) Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3
and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1
A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.
However, if the provision(s) do not
commence within the period of 6 months
beginning on the day this Act receives the
Royal Assent, they commence on the day
after the end of that period.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
Migration Legislation Amendment (Student Visas) Bill 2012 No. , 2012 3
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000
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1 Section 5
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Insert:
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contact details of a person who becomes or is an accepted student
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means:
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(a) the person's current residential address; and
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(b) the person's mobile phone number (if any); and
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(c) the person's email address (if any).
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2 Paragraph 19(1)(a)
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After "name", insert ", contact details".
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3 After subsection 19(1)
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Insert:
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(1A) A registered provider must give the Secretary particulars of any
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change in the contact details or other prescribed details of an
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accepted student within 14 days after the provider becomes aware
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of the change.
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4 Subsection 20(1)
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Omit "A registered", substitute "Subject to subsection (4A), a
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registered".
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5 After subsection 20(4)
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Insert:
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(4A) A registered provider must not send a notice under subsection (1)
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on or after the day this subsection commences.
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Migration Act 1958
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6 Subsection 137J(1) (note)
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Omit "Note:", substitute "Note 1:".
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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7 At the end of subsection 137J(1)
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Add:
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Note 2:
Under subsection 20(4A) of that Act, a registered provider must not
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send a notice on or after the day that subsection commences.
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