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TERTIARY EDUCATION QUALITY AND STANDARDS AGENCY ACT 2011 (NO. 73, 2011) - SECT 189

Disclosing information about breaches of regulatory requirements

             (1)  TEQSA may disclose the kinds of higher education information referred to in subsection (2) to:

                     (a)  a person who holds any office or appointment under a law of the Commonwealth, or under a law of a State or Territory; or

                     (b)  a member, or special member, of the Australian Federal Police (within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 ); or

                     (c)  a member of the police force, or police service, of a State or Territory; or

                     (d)  an employee:

                              (i)  of a Commonwealth authority or of a State or Territory authority; and

                             (ii)  of a kind specified in the Information Guidelines for the purposes of this section; or

                     (e)  in the case of a registered provider (within the meaning of the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 )--the Fund Manager, or the operator of an applicable tuition assurance scheme, within the meaning of that Act; or

                      (f)  a regulatory authority of another country that has responsibility relating to the quality or regulation of higher education.

             (2)  The kinds of higher education information are as follows:

                     (a)  information that relates to an offence, or possible offence, against this Act, this Act's associated provisions or the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 ;

                     (b)  information that relates to a contravention, or possible contravention, of:

                              (i)  this Act; or

                             (ii)  the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 ; or

                            (iii)  the Higher Education Support Act 2003 ; or

                            (iv)  legislative instruments made under any of those Acts.



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