New South Wales Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION ACT 1990 - SECT 31A

31A Overseas students

(1) The Director-General may, by order published in the Gazette, fix the fees to be paid by overseas students, or classes of overseas students, at government schools.

(2) The Director-General is to cause an order under this section to be placed on the Department’s website.

(3) The Director-General may exempt an overseas student, or class of overseas students, from the requirement to pay a fee in accordance with this section, or refund all or any part of such a fee, in such circumstances as the Director-General considers appropriate.

(4) An overseas student is not entitled to receive instruction, or to participate in school activities, at a government school, unless any fee payable by the student under this section has been paid.

(5) The Director-General may terminate the enrolment of an overseas student at a government school if a fee that is required to be paid under this section in relation to the overseas student has not been paid.

(6) Any fee that is due but not paid under this section may be recovered by the Director-General as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.