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Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Act 2012
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Registered providers
(1) A provider who is registered on 1 January of a year is liable to pay a TPS levy for the year.
> Note: This section extends to a registered provider whose registration has been suspended.
(2) The amount of the TPS levy for a registered provider for a year is the sum of the following components:
(a) the provider’s administrative fee component for the year (see section 6);
(b) the provider’s base fee component for the year (see section 7);
(c) the provider’s risk rated premium component for the year (see section 9);
(d) the provider’s special tuition protection component for the year (see section 10).
> Note: Classes of providers may be exempt from the requirement to pay either or both the base fee component or the risk rated premium component: see section 12.
Unregistered providers
(3) A provider who is not yet registered, but who is seeking to be registered under the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 in a year, is liable to pay a TPS levy for the year.
(4) The amount of the TPS levy for such an unregistered provider for that year is the sum of the following components:
(a) the amount under paragraph 6(a) for the year;
(b) the amount under paragraph 7(a) for the year.
> Note: Those amounts are indexed under section 8.