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Education Act 1990
83OApproval to provide courses to overseas students
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#### 83O Approval to provide courses to overseas students
83O Approval to provide courses to overseas students
> > (1) The Authority may, on the application of a provider, approve the provider to provide courses at a government school or registered non-government school to overseas students enrolled at the school.
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> > (2) An approval may (according to the terms of the approval) apply to such courses generally, to specified classes of such courses or to a specified course or courses.
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> > (3) An application for approval must be in such form, and be accompanied by such fee, as the Authority may determine.
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> > (4) The Authority may require an applicant to furnish further information in relation to the application.
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> > (5) An approval has effect for such period as is specified in the approval, commencing on a date so specified.
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> > (6) Approval may be granted unconditionally or subject to such conditions (which may be imposed when the approval is granted or at any later time) as the Authority determines.
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> > (7) Examples of the conditions that may be imposed include the following—
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> > > (a) conditions specifying the premises in or from which the courses to which the approval relates are to be conducted,
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> > > (b) conditions requiring the payment (including periodic payment while the approval remains in force) of fees to the Authority in respect of the approval.
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> > (8) The Authority must not refuse an application for approval except on the grounds that—
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> > > (a) the applicant has not furnished such further information in relation to the application as the Authority requires, or
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> > > (b) the Authority has reasonable grounds to believe that the applicant will not comply with the national code (within the meaning of the Commonwealth Act), or
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> > > (c) the Authority is not satisfied that all relevant Commonwealth criteria are met.
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> > (9) In this section, relevant Commonwealth criteria, in relation to an application for approval, means the criteria that the Authority (in its role as a designated authority within the meaning of the Commonwealth Act) is required to certify as having been met for the purposes of recommending that the applicant be registered as a provider under the Commonwealth Act.
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> **s 83M–83O:** Ins 2013 No 32, Sch 1 \[4\]. Renumbered 2014 No 62, Sch 1 \[15\].