EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1986 No 379
OVERSEAS STUDENTS CHARGE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER FOR EDUCATION.
Section 8 of the Overseas Students Charge Act 1979 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed and to provide for reductions in the amount of the charge imposed by the Act.
Decisions made by the government in the 1986/87 Budget were implemented by amendments made to the Principal Act by the Overseas Students Charge Amendment Act 1986. These amendments to the Principal Act which include the transfer to the Act of provisions previously in the regulations, have made it necessary to appropriately amend the regulations to reflect and reference these changes. Amendments to correct anomalies and to remove redundant provisions have also been made.
Regulation 1 deals with citation.
Regulation 2 amends regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations by substituting a new definition of “preliminary course” which results from the inclusion of the definition of “university or advanced education course” in sub-section 4(1) of the Act by the Overseas Students Charge Amendment Act 1986.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations by:
- omitting sub-regulation (1), as charge levels are now included in sub-sections 6(1), (2) and (3) of the Act;
- omitting reference to sub-regulation (1) in sub-regulations (2), (3) and (4) and referencing these provisions for half payment of the charge to the Act.
Regulation 4 amends regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations to reference this regulation to the new definition of “university or college of advanced education” as a consequence of the amendment to sub-section 4(1) of the Act.