EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1987 NO. 311
ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER FOR EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING
OVERSEAS STUDENTS CHARGE ACT 1979
OVERSEAS STUDENTS CHARGE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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.
Section 4A of the Act provides that the regulations may declare a specified course of study offered, or to be offered, by a specified educational institution to be a declared course for the purposes of the Act.
The amendment to the Regulations will update the Schedule of Declared Courses. Courses so declared will attract the overseas students charge at the advanced education course level.
Regulation 1 provides for the new amendment to come into operation on 1 January 1988.
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.