Education Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 1993 (WA)

29 January 1993] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 861

(No. 3) 1993.

EDUCATION

ED301

EDUCATION ACT 1928

EDUCATION AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (NO. 3) 1993

Made by the Minister for Education.

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Education Amendment Regulations

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Schedule 2 repealed and a Schedule substituted

2. Schedule 2 to the Education Act Regulations 1960* is repealed and the

following Schedule is substituted —

SCHEDULE 2

[Regulation 2221

FEES — TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION

Community adult education — tuition fees for class instruction

1. Subject to clauses 2 and 3, the tuition fee for class instruction in a course classified as a community adult education course is the amount calculated on the basis of $4.15 for each hour, or part of each hour, of instruction in the course.

Concession fees for class instruction in community adult education courses

2. Subject to clause 3, the tuition fee for class instruction in a course classified as a community adult education course for —

(a)

a person who holds —

(i)	a Health Benefit Card;
(ii)	a Health Care Card;
(iii)	a Pensioner Health Benefits Card/Travel Card;
(iv)	a Veterans Health Benefits Card, issued by the Department of Social Security or the Department of Veterans' Affairs of the Commonwealth; or
(v)	a Rates Concession Card, issued by the Department for Community Development in this State,

and a dependant of such a person; and

(b) a person who holds a Seniors Card, issued by the Office

of Senior's Interests in this State,

is the amount calculated on the basis of $1.55 for each hour, or part	of each hour, of instruction in the course but the fee payable by the
person is not to exceed $24.40 for each community adult education course to which the person is admitted.
Tuition fees for class instruction in community adult eduction courses that have commenced
3. Where a person is admitted to a course classified as a community education course after the course has commenced, the tuition fee for the course is the amount calculated by multiplying the number of hours of instruction remaining in the course by the amount prescribed in clause 1 or 2 as the case may be.
Community adult education — tuition fees for correspondence instruction
4. The tuition fee for correspondence instruction in a course classified as a community adult education course is the amount calculated, without regard to when the person is admitted to the course, on the basis of twice the hourly rate prescribed in clause 1 or 2 as the case may be, for each lesson.

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Vocational courses — administration fees

5. (1) Subject to clause 6, the administration fee for admission to a vocational course in which class instruction is given is the amount calculated on the basis of 70 cents for each hour, or part of each hour, of instruction in the course but the fee payable by a person is not to exceed $238 for each semester in which the person is admitted to a vocational course or courses.

The administration fee for a vocational course in which instruction is given by a method other than traditional class instruction (namely, the open learning program or correspondence instruction) is the same as the fee calculated under subclause (1) for class instruction in the course.

(2)

(3) In this regulation and in regulation 6 "vocational course"

means a course that is not classified as a course for community adult education, small business management, equity and access, customised training, contracted higher education, traineeship or tertiary entrance examinations.

Exemptions from administration fees for

vocational courses

6. A person —
(a) who holds

(i)      a Health Benefit Card;

(ii)     a Health Care Card;

(iii)     a Pensioner Health Benefits Card/Travel Card;

(iv)     a Veterans Health Benefits Card, issued by the Department of Social Security or the Department of Veterans' Affairs of the Commonwealth; or

(v)     a Rates Concession Card, issued by the Department for Community Development in this State,

and a dependant of such a person;

(b) in receipt of a benefit under the AUSTUDY scheme or ABSTUDY scheme described in the Students Assistance Act 1973 of the Commonwealth, as amended from time to time; or

(c) who was enrolled in a secondary school during 1992 and

who was less than 20 years of age on 31 December

1992,

is exempt from paying an administration fee for a vocational course.

Small business management courses —
tuition fees

7. The tuition fee for class instruction in a course classified as a small business management course is the amount calculated on the basis of $4.15 for each hour, or part of each hour, of instruction in the course.

Fees to be rounded to whole dollars

8. Where the calculation under clause 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 7 of a fee results in an amount that is not in whole dollars, that amount is to be rounded to the nearest, highest whole dollar and the resulting amount is the fee payable.

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Other fees

9. The fee for a matter set out in column 1 of the table to this

clause is set out in column 2 opposite the matter.

Table

$

1.	Late entry to examinations	10.00
2.	Replacement diploma or certificate	3.00
3.	Special deferred examination — each subject	10.00
4.	Examination of approved external
candidates — each subject	6.00
5.	Re-marking of examination — each subject	10.00
6.	Report on examination or on re-marking of
examination — each subject	20.00
7.	Correspondence course administration —

(a)	where lessons are to be sent to a place in
Australia but outside Western Australia 10.00
(b)	where lessons are to be sent to a place not in
Australia 35.00

8.	Late enrolment	45.00
9.	Change of enrolment preference	20.00

[* Reprinted in the Gazette of 28 September 1989 at pp. 3509-664.	For amendments to 22 January 1993 see 1991 Index to Legislation
27 March 1992 and 15 December 1992.] of Western Australia, p. 305 and Gazettes of 14 January 1992,

Dated 27 January 1993.

KAY HALLAHAN, Minister for Education.