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

 

Select Legislative Instrument No. 94, 2014

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 26 June 2014

Peter Cosgrove

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Christopher Pyne

Minister for Education

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name of regulation

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Amendments

Education Services for Overseas Students Regulations 2001

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

 

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.