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Marginal note:Definition of student recruitment services

• 18 (1) For the purposes of this section, student recruitment services means any of the following services:

  • (a) seeking or obtaining enrollment for a client at an institution that provides education or training to international students;

  • (b) assisting or advising any person with respect to seeking or obtaining enrollment for a client at an institution that provides education or training to international students;

  • (c) assisting or advising a representative of an institution that provides education or training to international students or any person with respect to admitting a client to such an institution; or

• Marginal note:Conflict of interest — student recruitment services

  (2) A licensee is in a conflict of interest if they provide both immigration or citizenship consulting services and student recruitment services to a client who is a foreign national, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, unless the licensee is providing those services in their capacity as a salaried employee of an institution that provides education or training to international students.

• Marginal note:Conditions

  (3) However, a licensee may provide both immigration or citizenship consulting services and student recruitment services to a client who is a foreign national if the licensee

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  • (b) ensures that the service agreement clearly differentiates between the immigration or citizenship consulting services and the student recruitment services that will be provided to the client;

  • (c) does not directly or indirectly charge a fee or disbursement to the client for any student recruitment services;

  • (d) discloses to the client the fees that the licensee is receiving from an institution that provides education or training to international students for recruiting the client to study at that institution;

  • (e) complies with all applicable legislation governing the provision of student recruitment services; and

  • (f) demonstrates honesty and candour towards the client and commitment to the client’s cause, including by providing the client with accurate information regarding

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    • (ii) their program of study,

Marginal note:Non-application of sections 23 and 24

25 Sections 23 and 24 do not apply to a licensee who is a salaried employee of an institution that provides education or training to international students or an organization that represents such an institution if the following conditions are met:

• (a) the licensee, in their capacity as an employee of the institution or organization, provides immigration or citizenship consulting services to the institution or organization, employees of the institution or organization or current or prospective students of the institution;

• (b) no fees are payable to the licensee by the employees or current or prospective students of the institution or organization in respect of the services;

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• (d) the licensee discloses to the institution or organization and the employees or current or prospective students to whom the services are provided that the licensee is regulated by the College and is subject to this Code, but that the obligations set out in sections 23 and 24 do not apply;

• (e) the licensee provides information about the College’s complaints process to the institution or organization and the employees or current or prospective students to whom the services are provided; and

• (f) the licensee provides information about the licensee’s or their employer’s complaints-handling procedure to the current or prospective students to whom the services are provided.