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Education Services for Overseas
Students (Registration of Providers
and Financial Regulation)
Amendment Act 1993
No. 114 of 1993

An Act to amend the Education Services for Overseas
Students (Registration of Providers and Financial
Regulation) Act 1991, and for related purposes

[Assented to 24 December 1993]

  The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title etc.

1.(1) This Act may be cited as the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration of Providers and Financial Regulation) Amendment Act 1993.

(2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration of Providers and Financial Regulation) Act 19911.

Commencement

2.(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Subsection 3(2), sections 5 and 6, subsections 9(2) and 10(2) and section 11 commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if those provisions do not commence by Proclamation within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, then they commence on the first day after the end of that period.

(3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), section 8 of this Act commences on the date on which regulations are made under the Principal Act to provide for the establishment of a tuition assurance scheme for the purpose of section 7A of that Act.

(4) If regulations under the Principal Act 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section 7A of that Act are disallowed by either House of the Parliament, section 7A of that Act is deemed to have been repealed on the date of the disallowance.

(5) If regulations under the Principal Act 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for the purposes of section 7A of that Act are not made by 30 June 1994, section 7A of that Act is deemed to have been repealed on that date.

(6) Section 8 commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if that section does not commence by Proclamation within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, then it commences on the first day after the end of that period.

(7) Section 7 and subsection 10(3) commence on the first day after the end of the period of 2 months beginning on the day on which section 8 commences.

Interpretation

3.(1) Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definitions of "intending overseas student" and "overseas student" and substituting the following definitions:

" 'intending overseas student' means a person who intends to become an overseas student;

'overseas student' means a person who holds a student