Bill
Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2021
passed, as at 2021-08-27. Education and Youth portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education and Youth
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-06-24
- second reading — 2021-06-24
- second reading — 2021-08-05
- second reading — 2021-08-09
- second reading — 2021-08-09
- third reading — 2021-08-09
- introduced — 2021-08-10
- second reading — 2021-08-10
- second reading — 2021-08-12
- second reading — 2021-08-12
- third reading — 2021-08-12
- passed — 2021-08-12
- royal assent — 2021-08-27
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2021-06-24.
This bill would raise fees for international education providers registered on CRICOS to recover the government's regulatory costs.
It would update the Registration Charges Act so that the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency, the Australian Skills Quality Authority and a department secretary can set their own charges.
The annual charges and application fees would be set by regulation, which could also exempt whole classes of providers.
- The bill updates registration charges under the Registration Charges Act.
- It lets ESOS agencies set their own cost recovery arrangements.
- It allows regulations to prescribe charge amounts and indexation.
- It allows regulations to exempt classes of providers from charges.
Education providers registered on CRICOS.
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