Explanatory Statement
Statutory Rules No. 472
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 the purposes of any provision of the Act.
Section 4A of the Act provides that the regulations may specify a course of study offered or to be offered by a specified educational institution (other than a prescribed educational institution, that is, a university or college of advanced education) to be a declared course for the purposes of the Act. Declared courses are those which, while fully Commonwealth funded, and accredited at advanced education level, are offered in an institution other than a university or college of advanced education.
Declared courses are listed in the Schedule to the Overseas Students Charge Regulations (the Regulations). Under section 5 of the Act, an overseas student enrolled in a prescribed course (including, inter alia, a declared course - section 4 of the Act) for a year is liable for a charge in respect of that enrolment.
Commonwealth-funded advanced education level courses to be offered in other than universities and colleges of advanced education in 1985 will differ from those offered in 1984. The purpose of the amending regulation is to reflect those differences. A copy is attached.
Regulation 1 sets 1 January 1985 as the date of operation.
Regulation 2 repeals the existing Schedule of Declared Courses and substitutes a revised schedule. Part I of the Schedule lists full-time courses, and Part II lists courses which involve part-time study.