Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

IMMIGRATION (EDUCATION) ACT 1971 - SECT 4A

             (1)  The regulations may provide for the charging and recovery of fees, not exceeding the applicable fee limit per year per student, in respect of English courses provided in accordance with section 4.

             (2)  Regulations for the purposes of subsection (1) must:

                     (a)  exempt from any fees prescribed under that subsection persons who, at the time of enrolment in the English course, are:

                              (i)  the holders of a health care card; or

                             (ii)  registered job seekers; and

                     (b)  provide that fees are payable on enrolment in the English course.

             (3)  The regulations may do one or both of the following:

                     (a)  prescribe different fees in relation to different classes of courses;

                     (b)  provide for the refund, reduction or waiving of fees in cases identified in the regulations.

          (3A)  The applicable fee limit in relation to a course that a person enrols in during a financial year starting on or after 1 July 1995 is, subject to subsection (3B), the amount worked out under the formula:

where:

"new CGFCE number" means the number worked out as follows:

                     (a)  take the first set of Commonwealth Government Final Consumption Expenditure Implicit Price Deflators to be issued by the Department of Finance after 1 January in the previous financial year;

                     (b)  find the number that relates to the period ending on 31 December in the previous financial year;

                     (c)  that number is the new CGFCE number.

"base CGFCE number" means the number worked out as follows:

                     (a)  take the first set of Commonwealth Government Final Consumption Expenditure Implicit Price Deflators to be issued by the Department of Finance after 1 January in the previous financial year;

                     (b)  find the number that relates to the period ending on 31 December 1993;

                     (c)  that number is the base CGFCE number.

          (3B)  If an amount worked out under the formula in subsection (3A) is not a multiple of $5, the amount is to be rounded as follows:

                     (a)  if the amount exceeds the nearest lower multiple of $5 by $2.50 or more--round the amount up to the nearest higher multiple of $5;

                     (b)  in any other case--round the amount down to the nearest lower multiple of $5.

             (4)  In this section:

"health care card" means a card prescribed for the purposes of this section that is issued by the government of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory.

"registered job seeker" means a person prescribed for the purposes of this section who is seeking work.