Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) 2021

✦ Plain-English Summary

# Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) 2021

## What it does
This bill updates the rules around how Australia charges overseas students and education providers. It replaces some old fee structures (called "annual registration charges" and "entry to market charges") with new ones called "CRICOS annual registration charges" and "schools initial registration charges."

## Why it matters
Universities and schools that want to enrol international students need to pay registration fees to the government. This bill restructures those fees, likely to better recover the actual cost of regulating and monitoring overseas student education in Australia.

## Key details
- **Old fees scrapped**: The bill removes references to "annual registration charges" and "entry to market charges" from the law
- **New fee names**: These are replaced with "CRICOS annual registration charges" (for universities and higher ed) and "schools initial registration charges" (for schools)
- **Timing**: The changes only kick in if related legislation (the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 2021 and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Act 2021) also passes and commences—if those bills don't pass, this one does nothing

Official Description

Introduced with the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2021, Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Amendment Bill 2021 and Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Amendment Bill 2021, the bill amends the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 to: provide that education services for overseas students agencies have the power to conduct compliance audits of registered providers; provide for payment arrangements for the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students annual registration charge; and make consequential and contingent amendments.

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Audit History

Introduced

24 June 2021

Last updated on APH

10 Apr 2026

Outcome date

27 Aug 2021

Last checked by Crossbench

2 days ago

Full text indexed

2 days ago

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