Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 3
Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Act 2017
No. 97, 2017
An Act to amend the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000, and for related purposes
[Assented to 14 September 2017]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Act 2017.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 14 September 2017 |
| 2. Schedule 1 | At the same time as the Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Amendment Act 2017 commences. However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Act does not commence. | 15 September 2017 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000
1 Section 51
Omit “setting the amount of the TPS levy each year”, substitute “working out the amount of the TPS levy each year”.
2 Section 53A (heading)
Repeal the heading, substitute:
53A TPS Director to work out the amount of TPS levies
3 Subsection 53A(2)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(2) The TPS Director must determine the amount in accordance with the Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Act 2012.
4 Application provision
The repeal and substitution of subsection 53A(2) of the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 made by this Schedule applies in relation to the calendar year beginning on 1 January 2018 and each later calendar year.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 10 August 2017
Senate on 7 September 2017]