Bill
Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) 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
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 2021-06-24.
The bill would update how the government recovers costs from education providers that enrol overseas students.
It would do this by clarifying that compliance audits are an explicit power of the agencies that regulate registered providers, and by setting the annual registration charge due date at 30 days after the department issues an invoice.
The explanatory memorandum says the bill is one of four separate bills that together implement a new cost recovery model announced in the 2021–22 Budget.
- Makes explicit that ESOS agencies can conduct compliance audits of the providers they regulate.
- Sets the due date for a provider's CRICOS annual registration charge to 30 days after the Secretary invoices them.
- Aligns the invoicing period under the ESOS Act with the payment rules under the TPS Levies Act.
Registered providers of courses for overseas students and the ESOS agencies that regulate them.
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