EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1988 NO. 390
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.
Regulation 1 provides for the new amendment to come into operation on 1 January 1989.
Regulation 2 deals with citation.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations by replacing the previous definition of “preliminary course” with a new definition, as the previous definition referred to a description of preliminary course in paragraph (b) of the definition of “university or advanced education” in subsection 4(1) of the Act which has been deleted.
Regulation 4 amends regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations by adding subregulation (5) to ensure that the provisions for payment of half the charge will apply, where relevant, to casual higher education students, as defined in subsection 4(1) of the Act.
Regulation 5 repeals regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations as all overseas students who enroll in a prescribed course or as a casual higher education student are now liable for the charge under section 5 of the Act.
Regulation 6 repeals the existing Schedule of Declared Courses and substitutes a revised Schedule. Courses so declared attract the overseas students charge at the higher education course level.