Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Student Visas and Other Measures) Regulation 2014

Select Legislative Instrument No. 94, 2014

Dated 26 June 2014

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Christopher Pyne

Contents

1............ Name of regulation.............................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................. 1

4............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                2

Education Services for Overseas Students Regulations 2001                            2

1  Name of regulation

                   This regulation is the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Student Visas and Other Measures) Regulation 2014.

2  Commencement

                   This regulation commences on 1 July 2014.

3  Authority

                   This regulation is made under the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000.

4  Schedule(s)

                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Education Services for Overseas Students Regulations 2001

1  Regulation 1.03 (definition of student visa)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

student visa means a visa of a subclass mentioned in the definition of student visa in regulation 1.03 of the Migration Regulations 1994, whenever granted, other than:

                     (a)  a Subclass 576 (Foreign Affairs and Defence Sector) visa; or

                     (b)  a visa granted to a person who satisfies the secondary criteria, but not the primary criteria, under the Migration Regulations 1994 for the grant of the visa; or

                     (c)  a visa granted to a person as a secondary exchange student within the meaning of the Migration Regulations 1994; or

                     (d)  a visa granted to a person as an overseas student who has been approved under a scholarship scheme, or an exchange scheme, sponsored by the Commonwealth to undertake a course of study or training in Australia.

2  Part 4

Repeal the Part.