FEES (TUITION) REGULATIONS (tuition)

FEES (TUITION)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 605.01

FEES (TUITION) REGULATIONS

18th July, 1975

LEGAL NOTICE 81 of 1975, as amended by Legal Notices 89 of 1980,

87, 116 and 133 of 1993, 424 of 2007,373 of 2009 and Act XXIX of 2019.

The title of these Regulations is the Fees (Tuition)

Regulations.

(Regulation 3)

Full-time Tuition

First Column

Second Column

Fees chargeable to persons

who are not citizens of a

Tuition at the following levels

Member State of the

European Union

Kindergarten ..................................

€465.87

Primary ..........................................

€465.87

Secondary ......................................

€559.05

Post-Secondary (Arts) ....................

€652.22

Post-Secondary (Science) ...............

€652.22

Trade Schools ................................

€559.05

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"Director" means the Director General responsible for the

Directorate of Educational Services established by article 13 of the

Education Act;

"Malta" has the same m eaning a s i s assigned t o it i n the

Constitution of Malta;

"Maltese student means a student normally residing in Malta and

includes a resident of a Member State of the European Union

Provided that the Minister responsible for education may,

in his discretion, declare any student to be a Maltese student for the

purposes of these regulations;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for education.

(1) The fees chargeable to persons who are not citizens of

a Member State of the European Union receiving full-time tuition

in any level of tuition appearing in the first column in the Schedule,

organised by the Directorate for Educational Services, shall be

those fees appearing opposite to the level of tuition in the second

column of the said Schedule.

(2) Such fees shall be payable at the office of the Directorate

for Educational Services or at any such school, college or other

educational institution as the Director may specify from time to

time.

(1) In the case of full-time tuition, one-third of the annual

fee shall be paid within ten working days from the commencement

of each term.

(2) In the case of part-time tuition, the whole annual fee shall

be paid on registration. but it shall be refunded if the course is not

held.

(3) The Director may, at his discretion, extend the time within

which fees are to be paid or allow the fees to be paid by

instalments, provided the total annual fee is paid within the

academic year to which it refers.

(4) If any fee, or part of a fee, is not paid when due in

accordance with the provisions of the preceding subregulations, the

Director may preclude the relative student from attendance to the

course in respect of which the fee or part of a fee, as the case may

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be, is due, without prejudice to the Director’s right to collect the

amount so due.

Saving the provision of regulation 4(2), no fee paid under

these regulations shall be refunded except when an application in

respect of a student is withdrawn not later than fifteen days before

the commencement of the relative course.

Where, for the purpose of establishing the fee payable, a

doubt arises as to the nature and, or the educational level of any

particular course, such nature and, or educational level shall be

decided by the Director.

The Minister may at any time exempt any student other

than a Maltese student from the payment of the whole fee, or of the

part of the fee, due in accordance with these regulations, owing to

t he p ro vi si on s o f an y in te rn at io nal a greem en t or exc han ge

arrangement.