Bill
Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment (Streamlining Regulation) Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-12-11. Education and Training portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education and Training
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-09-17
- second reading — 2015-09-17
- second reading — 2015-10-15
- second reading — 2015-10-19
- second reading — 2015-10-19
- third reading — 2015-10-19
- introduced — 2015-11-09
- second reading — 2015-11-09
- second reading — 2015-11-30
- second reading — 2015-11-30
- committee — 2015-11-30
- third reading — 2015-11-30
- passed — 2015-11-30
- royal assent — 2015-12-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-09-17.
This bill makes minor adjustments to the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997 to align with changes in the main Act.
It would ensure providers registered for less than two years pay all entry charges but are not billed twice when they renew.
The changes follow the removal of the minimum two-year registration period for providers under the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000.
- The bill removes the link between registration charges and a minimum two-year registration period.
- It ensures providers with shorter registration periods pay entry charges only once.
- It aligns the charges Act with changes to the main ESOS Act.
Education providers registered under the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000.
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