Education Services for Overseas Students (Exempt Courses) Instrument 2021 (Cth)

Education Services for Overseas Students (Exempt Courses) Instrument 2021

I, Alan Tudge, Minister for Education and Youth, make the following instrument.

Dated 25 June 2021

Alan Tudge Minister for Education and Youth

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Exempt courses Schedule 1 — VET courses Schedule 2 — Higher education

1 Name This instrument is the Education Services for Overseas Students (Exempt Courses) Instrument 2021.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of the instrument On the day after the instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under section 5AA of the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 5 of the Act, including the following: (a) ELICOS; (b) registered higher education provider. In this instrument: Act means the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000.

Australian Qualifications Framework means the framework of that name as defined in Schedule 1 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 and as in force on the day this instrument is made. Note: The Australian Qualifications Framework is available online at https://www.aqf.edu.au/ and is defined in the Higher Education Support Act 2003 as the framework for recognition and endorsement of qualifications: (a) that is established by the Council consisting of the Ministers for the Commonwealth and each State and Territory responsible for higher education; and (b) that is to give effect to agreed standards in relation to the provision of education in Australia.