Overseas Students Charge Amendment Act (No. 2) 1989 (Cth)

Overseas Students Charge Amendment Act

(No. 2) 1989

No. 178 of 1989

An Act to amend the Overseas Students Charge Act 1979

[Assented to 28 December 1989]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title etc.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Overseas Students Charge Amendment Act (No. 2) 1989.

(2) In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Overseas Students Charge Act 19791.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on the commencement of section 4 of the Migration Legislation Amendment Act 1989.

Interpretation

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of the definition of “overseas student” in subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(c) a person who is, within the meaning of the Migration Act 1958, the holder of a valid permanent entry permit;

(d) if the enrolment or proposed enrolment is in respect of a secondary education course—a person who is, for the purposes of the Migration Act 1958, an exempt non­citizen; or

(e) if paragraph (d) does not apply—a person who is, for the purposes of the Migration Act 1958, an exempt non­citizen, other than a person referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of ‘exempt non-citizen’ in subsection 5 (1) of that Act;”;

(b) by omitting from subsection (1) the definitions of “permanent entry permit” and “temporary entry permit”.

NOTE

1. No. 119, 1979, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 61, 1981; No. 22, 1982; Nos. 68 and 84, 1983; Nos. 136 and 165, 1984; No. 155, 1985; No. 138, 1986; No. 129, 1987; and Nos. 80 and 139, 1988.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 26 October 1989 Senate on 1 November 1989