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EDUCATION SERVICES FOR OVERSEAS STUDENTS (NO. 77 OF 1994) - SECT 3
Interpretation
3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention
appears—“approved” means approved under this Act;
“banking day” means a day on which banks are open for business;
“Commonwealth Act” means the Education Services for Overseas
Students (Registration of Providers and Financial Regulation) Act 1991 of the
Commonwealth; “course” means a course of education or training;
“course money” means money received by the provider, directly or
indirectly, from an overseas student, or an intending overseas student, in
relation to a course that the provider is providing, or offering to provide,
to the student (other than an enrolment fee that is not more than $250), and
includes—
(a) tuition fees;
(b) any amount that the provider is
to pay on behalf of the student to Medibank Private or another prescribed
hospital benefits organisation; and
(c)
any other amount that the student has to pay to the provider in order
to undertake the course;
“determined fee” means the fee determined
by the Minister under section 41 for the purposes of the provision in which
the expression occurs;
“inspector” means a public servant for the
time being performing the functions of an inspector by virtue of section 35 ;
“intending overseas student” means a person who intends to become
an overseas student;
“overseas student” means a person who holds a
student visa;
“principal executive officer”, in relation to a
provider that is not a natural person, means the person who has executive
responsibility for the operation of the provider;
“private
provider” means a provider approved under paragraph 8 (1) (a) or (b);
“provider” means an institution or other body or person that
provides or proposes to provide courses to overseas students in the Territory;
“register” means the register kept under
subsection 4 (1);
“registrable particulars” means
particulars prescribed by section 37;
“student visa” means a
student visa issued under regulations made under the Migration Act 1958 of
the Commonwealth;
“trust account” means an account maintained by a
private provider for the purpose of depositing money in accordance with
subsection 16 (1);
“trust money”, in relation to a
private provider, means money that the provider is required by subsection 16
(1) to pay into a trust account (whether or not the provider actually pays the
money into a trust account), other than money that the provider has become
entitled to withdraw from a trust account.
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