Maritime College Amendment Act 1987
An Act to amend the Maritime College Act 1978
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Maritime College Amendment Act 1987.
(2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Maritime College Act 19781.
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(a) by omitting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:
"(2) The Council, with the approval of the Minister, may determine, or the Minister may direct, that fees are to be payable to the College:
(a) in respect of such matters as are specified in the determination or direction; and
(b) as provided in subsections (6) and (7)."; and
(b) by adding at the end the following subsections:
"(5) On application by the College, the Minister may specify, by notice published in the Gazette:
(a) post-graduate courses for the purposes of subsection (6); or
(b) courses of technical and further education for the purposes of subsection (7).
"(6) Fees may be payable, by a person who possesses educational qualifications and has earned a living at any time, in respect of undertaking, for the purpose of acquiring further qualifications, a post-graduate course specified under paragraph (5) (a).
"(7) Fees may be payable, by a person who has earned a living at any time, in respect of undertaking, for purposes other than an initial vocational qualification, a course specified under paragraph (5) (b).".
(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of the definition of "relevant enrolment" in subsection (1) "(ca) of the definition of 'fees' in subsection 3 (1) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1984" and substituting "(d) of the definition of 'fees' in subsection 3 (1) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1987";
(c) by omitting paragraph (c) of the definition of "relevant enrolment" in subsection (1);
(d) by omitting paragraph (d) of the definition of "relevant enrolment" in subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
(i) a person who at any time in that year has been in receipt of a pension, benefit or allowance from the Commonwealth, being a person specified for the purposes of subparagraph (c) (i) of the definition of
'relevant enrolment' in subsection 3 (1) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1987; or
(ii) a person who at any time in that year has been the spouse of, and dependent on, another person specified for the purposes of subparagraph (c) (i) and subparagraph (c) (ii) of the definition of 'relevant enrolment' in subsection 3(1) of that Act;";
(e) by inserting in paragraph (e) of the definition of "relevant enrolment" in subsection (1) "or exemption was provided" after "imposed";
(f) by inserting in subsection (1) the following definitions:
" 'charge' means higher education administration charge;
'relevant date' means a date specified by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette;";
(g) by omitting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsections:
"(2a) Subject to this section, the student is liable to charge if:
(a) at any time during the year, a student would be liable to charge in respect of the College but is not liable because the student is a person of a kind referred to in paragraph (b) or
(d) of the definition of 'relevant enrolment' in subsection (1); and
(h) by omitting from subsection (3) "higher education administration"; and
(j) by adding at the end of subsection (4) "except where that course is of less than 12 months' duration and the person undertakes that course continuously".
1. No. 54, 1978, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 80, 1982; No. 72, 1984; No. 65, 1985; and No. 137, 1986.