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1996
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Education Services for
Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Bill
1996
No. ,
1996
(Employment, Education, Training and Youth
Affairs)
A Bill for an Act to impose
registration charges in relation to the Commonwealth Register of Institutions
and Courses for Overseas Students
9612720—1,025/4.10.1996—(127/96) Cat
No. 96 5226 4 ISBN 0644 482249
Contents
A Bill for an Act to impose registration charges in
relation to the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas
Students
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Education Services for Overseas Students
(Registration Charges) Act 1996.
This Act commences on the day on which the Education Services for
Overseas Students (Registration of Providers and Financial Regulation) Amendment
Act (No. 2) 1996 commences.
This Act binds the Crown in each of its capacities.
An expression used in this Act that is also used in the Education
Services for Overseas Students (Registration of Providers and Financial
Regulation) Act 1991 has the same meaning as in that Act, unless the
contrary intention appears.
(1) A provider who is a registered provider on 1 January of a year is
liable to pay an annual registration charge for the year.
Note: This section extends to a registered provider whose
registration has been suspended.
(2) The amount of the charge for the year is worked out using the
following table, based on the total enrolments for the provider in the previous
year:
|
Table to work out amount of charge |
||
|---|---|---|
|
Item |
Total enrolments in previous year |
Amount of charge |
|
1 |
0-10 |
$300 |
|
2 |
11-50 |
$750 |
|
3 |
51-200 |
$1,500 |
|
4 |
201-400 |
$2,500 |
|
5 |
401 or more |
$5,000 |
Note: The amount of the charge is indexed under section 7
for 1998 and later years.
(3) The total enrolments for a provider in a year is worked
out by adding together the number of enrolments of overseas students for each
course provided by the provider in the year.
(4) When working out the enrolments for a course for a year, each student
who is enrolled for the course at any time during the year counts as one
enrolment.
(5) For the purposes of this section, a course that spans 2 or more years
is taken to be a separate course in each of those years.
(1) Upon becoming registered, a provider is liable to pay an initial
registration charge.
Note: A provider is liable to pay the initial registration
charge each time the provider becomes registered.
(2) The amount of the charge for a registration is worked out using the
formula:
where:
remaining months means the number of complete months that
remain in the year after the provider becomes registered.
Note: The
amount of the charge is indexed under section 7 for 1998 and later
years.
(1) This section
applies for the purpose of working out the amount of initial registration charge
or annual registration charge for any year (the current year)
after 1997.
(2) Each amount of charge in the table in subsection 5(2), and the amount
specified in the formula in subsection 6(2), are to be adjusted for the current
year by multiplying the amounts that applied to the year before the current year
by the indexation factor worked out using the formula:
where:
index number, for a quarter, means the All Groups Consumer
Price Index number that is the weighted average of the 8 capital cities and is
published by the Australian Statistician for that quarter.
recent September quarter means the September quarter in the
year before the current year.
previous September quarter means the September quarter before
the recent September quarter.
(3) The indexation factor worked out under subsection (2) must be rounded
up or down to 3 places (rounding up in the case of exactly halfway
between).
(4) Amounts worked out under subsection (2) must be rounded to the nearest
whole dollar (rounding up in the case of 50 cents).
(5) If at any time (whether before or after the commencement of this
section) the Australian Statistician has changed or changes the reference base
for the Consumer Price Index, then, for the purposes of applying this section
after the change, only index numbers published in terms of the new reference
base are to be used.
The annual registration charge and the initial registration charge are
imposed by this section.
If this Act does not commence before 1 January 1997, then
subsection 5(1) applies for 1997 as if the reference in that subsection to
“1 January of a year” were a reference to “the day this
Act commenced”.