New Zealand Legislation: Acts

4D Boards to reimburse the Crown for expenditure in respect of foreign students

• (1) Before 1 July in every year, the Minister shall, by notice in the Gazette, set fees to be paid by boards in respect of foreign students enrolled at State schools in the following year.

  (2) Fees may be set in respect of all or any of the following:

  • (a) all State schools, State schools of a specified kind or description, or specified State schools:

  • (b) all foreign students, or foreign students of a specified kind or description:

  • (c) all subjects, courses, and programmes; subjects, courses, and programmes of a specified kind or description; or specified subjects, courses, or programmes.

  (3) Within 28 days of the first day in any year on which a foreign student enrolled at a State school attends the school, the board shall pay to the Secretary the appropriate fee (if any) prescribed under subsection (1).

  (3A) The Minister may pay to the proprietors of an integrated school whose board has paid a fee under this section a portion of that fee, as determined in accordance with a formula prescribed under subsection (3B), for the purpose of reimbursing the proprietors for that part of the levy associated with the use of capital assets owned by the proprietors.

  (3B) The Minister must, by notice in the Gazette, prescribe a formula for the payment of money under subsection (3A), and may prescribe different formulae to apply to different schools or classes of school.

  (4) If before 1 July in any year the Minister has not set under subsection (1) fees to be paid by boards in respect of foreign students enrolled at State schools in the following year, there shall be deemed to have been set under that subsection the fees set (or deemed to have been set) in the year before.

  Section 4D: inserted, on 1 January 1992, by section 3(1) of the Education Amendment Act (No 4) 1991 (1991 No 136).

  Section 4D(3A): inserted, on 17 May 2006, by section 4 of the Education Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 19).

  Section 4D(3B): inserted, on 17 May 2006, by section 4 of the Education Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 19).