‘Education institution’ is defined in section 10(1) of the Copyright Act. Here is the current definition:
Educational institution means:
(aa) an institution at which education is provided at pre‑school or kindergarten standard; or
(a) a school or similar institution at which full‑time primary education or full‑time secondary education is provided or both full‑time primary education and full‑time secondary education are provided; or
(b) a university, a college of advanced education or a technical and further education institution; or
(c) an institution that conducts courses of primary, secondary or tertiary education by correspondence or on an external study basis; or
(d) a school of nursing; or
(e) an undertaking within a hospital, if the undertaking conducts courses of study or training in the provision of:
(i) medical services; or
(ii) services incidental to the provision of medical services; or
(f) a teacher education centre; or
(g) an institution with the principal function of providing courses of study or training for any of the following purposes:
(i) general education;
(ii) the preparation of people for a particular occupation or profession;
(iii) the continuing education of people engaged in a particular occupation or profession;
(iv) the teaching of English to people whose first language is not English; or
(h) an undertaking within a body administering an educational institution, if:
(i) the educational institution is of a kind referred to in a preceding paragraph of this definition; and
(ii) the principal function, or one of the principal functions, of the undertaking is the provision of teacher training to people engaged as instructors in educational institutions of a kind mentioned in a preceding paragraph of this definition, or of 2 or more such kinds; or
(i) an institution, or an undertaking within a body administering an educational institution of a kind referred to in a preceding paragraph of this definition, if:
(i) the principal function, or one of the principal functions, of the institution, or undertaking, is the providing of material to educational institutions of a kind referred to in a preceding paragraph of this definition, or 2 or more such kinds; and
(ii) that activity is undertaken for the purpose of helping those institutions in their teaching purposes.
November 2022
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