Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 155B

155B Additional requirements for application for enrolment as mature age student

(1) An application for the enrolment of a person as a mature age student of a mature age State school must—

(a) include the applicant’s consent for the school’s principal to obtain the applicant’s criminal history under chapter 8A ; and

(b) be accompanied by the criminal history check fee prescribed by regulation.

(2) The applicant may give the principal notice of the withdrawal of the application at any time before it is decided.

(3) On receiving the application, the principal may ask the applicant, orally or in writing, for further information the principal reasonably needs to establish the applicant’s identity.

(4) The applicant is taken to have withdrawn the application if—

(a) the principal gives the applicant a notice—

(i) asking the applicant to provide, within a reasonable stated time, stated information the principal reasonably needs to establish the applicant’s identity; and

(ii) stating that, if the applicant does not comply with the request, the applicant’s application will be taken to have been withdrawn; and

(b) the applicant does not comply with the request within the stated time; and

(c) the principal can not establish with certainty the applicant’s identity; and

(d) the principal gives the applicant a notice stating that the applicant is taken to have withdrawn the application.