House of Representatives

Trade Support Loans Amendment Bill 2023

Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Replacement Levy) Amendment Bill 2023

Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Replacement Levy) Amendment Act 2023

Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by the authority of the Minister for Skills and Training, the Hon Brendan O'Connor MP)

STUDENT LOANS (OVERSEAS DEBTORS REPLACEMENT LEVY) AMENDMENT BILL 2023

NOTES ON CLAUSES

Clause 1 - Short title

1. This clause provides that, once enacted, this Act's short title is the Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Replacement Levy) Amendment Act 2023.

Clause 2 - Commencement

2. The table in subclause 2(1) sets out when, once enacted, this Act commences. Item 1 of that table provides that the whole of this Act commences at the same time as the Trade Support Loans Amendment Act 2023 commences. However, this Act does not commence at all if the Trade Support Loans Amendment Act 2023 does not commence.

3. Subclause 2(2) provides that any information in column 3 of the table in subclause 2(1) is not part of this Act, and that information may be inserted in that column or information in it may be edited in any published version of this Act.

Clause 3 - Schedules

4. This clause provides that legislation that is specified in a Schedule is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and that any other item in a Schedule has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1 - Amendments

Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Act 2015

Item 1 - Section 3 (paragraph (b) of the definition of overseas debtors repayment levy )

Item 2 - Section 5

5. These items make minor amendments to sections 5 and 6, omitting the reference to "Trade Support Loans Act 2014" and substituting it with "Australian Apprenticeship Support Loans Act 2014".


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