Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

The Education (Domestic Students) Notice 2003

Pursuant to section 2 (1) (e) of the definition of the term "domestic student" and section 4A (1) of the Education Act 1989, the Minister of Education, by and through the Senior Manager, National Operations, Ministry of Education, acting under delegated authority, gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice may be cited as the Education (Domestic Students) Notice 2003.
(2) This notice shall come into force on the day after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Persons to be treated as if they are not foreign students-For the purposes of Parts I to III, and section 79 (2) of the Education Act 1989, foreign students of the following kind, class or description are persons who are required to be treated as if they are not foreign students and who are entitled to enrol at State schools:
? A foreign student who has entered New Zealand for the purposes of adoption:
(a) and whose adoption application before the
New Zealand Family Court (where the Final Order will entitle those children to education as domestic students) is supported by the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services and who has a letter from the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services confirming this support; or
(b) who is the subject of an Interim Order of Adoption granted by the New Zealand Family Court under section 5 of the Adoption Act 1955 (where the Final Order will entitle those children to education as domestic students).
Dated at Wellington this 1st day of January 2003.
KATHY PHILLIPS, Senior Manager, National Operations, Ministry of Education.