Generally, a registered training organisation must not issue a VET qualification or VET statement of attainment to an individual after 2014 unless the individual has a student identifier.

The Student Identifiers Registrar must assign a student identifier to an individual on application.

On request by an individual, or an organisation or body involved with vocational education and training, the Registrar may verify that an identifier is the individual's student identifier, or give the individual's student identifier.

Records of student identifiers must be protected from misuse. Collection, use and disclosure of an individual's student identifier without the individual's consent is prohibited, unless it is authorised by this Act. The Information Commissioner may deal with breaches of these rules as interferences with privacy under the Privacy Act 1988 .

On request, the Registrar may give all or part of an authenticated VET transcript of an individual who has a student identifier to the individual, a registered training organisation or a VET-related body. This is subject to access controls set by the individual.