Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2010

Type: Government
Portfolio: Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Act
Parliament no: 42
Summary: Amends the
Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000
and
Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997
to: require all institutions currently registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students to re-register by 31 December 2010; introduce two new registration criteria; require providers to maintain and publish a list of persons/agents who represent them; provide the minister with a discretion to enable a suspended provider to accept monies in certain circumstances; enable national alignment of regulatory actions; and provide for regulations to be made in relation to: providers’ agents, and criteria to be applied when consideration is given to whether a course is a suitable alternative course.

Progress

House of Representatives
19 Aug 2009	Introduced and read a first time
19 Aug 2009	Second reading moved
19 Oct 2009	Second reading debate
19 Oct 2009	Second reading agreed to
19 Oct 2009	Consideration in detail debate Amendment details: 1 Opposition agreed to
19 Oct 2009	Third reading agreed to

Senate
26 Oct 2009	Introduced and read a first time
26 Oct 2009	Second reading moved
03 Feb 2010	Second reading debate
03 Feb 2010	Second reading agreed to
03 Feb 2010	Committee of the Whole debate
04 Feb 2010	Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 1 Opposition and 2 Xenophon/Australian Greens agreed to
04 Feb 2010	Third reading agreed to

House of Representatives
08 Feb 2010	Message from Senate reported
11 Feb 2010	Consideration of Senate message Details: House agreed to Senate amendment 1 and disagreed to amendments 2 and 3

Senate
22 Feb 2010	Consideration of House of Reps message Details: Senate did not insist on its amendments nos 2 and 3

22 Feb 2010	Text of bill as passed both Houses
03 Mar 2010	Assent Act no.: 10 Year: 2010

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading
Third reading
As passed by both houses

Explanatory memoranda

Revised explanatory memorandum
Explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

Senate
Australian Greens [sheet 5958] HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
Independent [6041] XENOPHON, Sen Nick
Independent/Australian Greens [sheet 6041 revised] XENOPHON, Sen Nick;HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
Opposition [sheet 5969 revised] CORMANN, Sen Mathias

House of Representatives
Non-Government SOUTHCOTT, Andrew, MP

Schedules of amendments

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate to which the House of Representatives has disagreed
Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate

Committee Information

No documents at present

Bills Digest

Notes

Referred to Committee (20/08/2009): Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Committee
Committee report (16/10/2009)

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Text of bill

First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
As passed by both houses: Final text of bill agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate which is presented to the Governor-General for assent.

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

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Schedules of amendments

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