Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 2

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2

3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 4

Schedule 1--Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000           5

Part 1--Amendments after VET law commences                                          5

Part 2--Amendments if VET law has not commenced                               9

Part 3--Amendments about access                                                                      15

Part 4--Other amendments                                                                                      16

Schedule 2--Other amendments                                                                                 17

Part 1--Amendments about higher education support                              17

Division 1--Main amendments                                                                              17

Higher Education Support Act 2003                                                                     17

Division 2--Amendments of new law about approvals                                     24

Higher Education Support Act 2003                                                                     24

Division 3--Amendments of old law about approvals                                      24

Higher Education Support Act 2003                                                                     24

Part 2--Amendments after VET law commences                                        25

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011                          25

Schedule 3--Transitional provisions                                                                        26

Part 1--Preliminary                                                                                                      26

Part 2--Transferring existing State registrations to TEQSA system etc.                28

Division 1--Transferring existing State registrations etc.                                   28

Division 2--Pending review decisions about State registrations                       31

Division 3--Suspended automatic TEQSA registrations                                    32

Division 4--Automatic transitional registration for some overseas providers 34

Division 5--Transferring an authorisation to self-accredit courses of study  36

Division 6--No inference that Standards met                                                      36

Part 3--Pending applications for State registration or re-registration 38

Part 4--Transferring existing State accreditations to TEQSA system etc.            41

Division 1--Transferring existing State accreditations etc.                                41

Division 2--Pending review decisions about State accreditations                    42

Division 3--Suspended automatic TEQSA accreditations                                43

Division 4--No inference that Standards met                                                      45

Part 5--Pending applications for State accreditation or re-accreditation               46

Part 6--Making the first Threshold Standards                                              48

Part 7--Audits                                                                                                                49

Part 8--Review of decisions                                                                                   50

Part 9--Transfer of records                                                                                      51

Part 10--Miscellaneous                                                                                              52

 

 

 

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2011

No. 74, 2011

 

An Act to deal with consequential and transitional matters arising from the enactment of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011, and for other purposes

[Assented to 29 June 2011]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

[Minister's second reading speech made in--

Senate on 23 March 2011

House of Representatives on 22 June 2011]