Overseas Students Tuition Assurance
Levy Act 1993

No. 117 of 1993

An Act to allow levies to be imposed by the rules of a tuition
assurance scheme established for the purposes of section 7A
of the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration
of Providers and Financial Regulation) Act 1991

[Assented to 24 December 1993]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Overseas Students Tuition Assurance Levy Act 1993.

Commencement

2.(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), this Act commences on the date on which regulations are made under the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration of Providers and Financial Regulation) Act 1991 to provide for the establishment of a tuition assurance scheme for the purpose of section 7A of that Act.

(2) If regulations under the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration of Providers and Financial Regulation) Act 1991 to provide for the establishment of a tuition assurance scheme for the purposes of section 7A of that Act are disallowed by either House of the Parliament, this Act is deemed to have been repealed on the date of the disallowance.

(3) If regulations under the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration of Providers and Financial Regulation) Act 1991 to provide for the establishment of a tuition assurance scheme for the purposes of section 7A of that Act are not made by 30 June 1994, this Act is deemed to have been repealed on that date.

Rules of tuition assurance scheme may impose levies on scheme members

3. Regulations under the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration of Providers and Financial Regulation) Act 1991 that provide for the establishment of a tuition assurance scheme for the purposes of section 7A of that Act may allow the rules of the scheme to impose levies on members of the scheme.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 29 September 1993

Senate on 20 October 1993]