In these Regulations:

"Act" means the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 .

"agreed starting day", for a course or part of a course provided to a student, means the day on which the course or part of a course is scheduled to start, or a later day agreed between the provider for the course or part of a course and the student.

"non-government school" means a school in a State that is not conducted by or on behalf of the Government of a State, but does not include a school conducted for profit.

"parent organisation", for a provider, means a body corporate of which the provider is a subsidiary within the meaning of the Corporations Law.

"PRISMS" (Provider Registration and International Student Management System) means the electronic system of that name used to process information given to the Secretary in the form approved under subsection 19 (3) of the Act.

student visa means a visa described in the Migration Regulations 1994 as a Student (Temporary) (Class TU) visa, other than such a visa for:

(a)

a person who satisfies the secondary criteria, but not the primary criteria, under those Regulations for the grant of the visa; or

(b)

an exchange student or AusAID student within the meaning of those Regulations; or

(c)

an overseas student who has been approved by the Minister for Defence to undertake a course of study or training under a scholarship scheme or training program approved by the Minister for Defence; or

(d)

an overseas student who has been approved under another scholarship scheme, or an exchange scheme, sponsored by the Commonwealth to undertake a course of study or training in Australia.

"university" means an institution of higher education specified in Table A of the definition of institution in subsection 4 (1) of the Higher Education Funding Act 1988 .

Note
The following expressions are defined in the Act (section 5) and have the same meaning in these Regulations:
* accepted student
* annual Fund contribution
* approved provider
* course
* course money
* designated authority
* Fund Manager
* Immigration Minister
* national code
* overseas student
* Panel
* provide
* provider
* Register
* registered provider
* Secretary
* State
* tuition assurance scheme.