(1) Subject to this
Act, the chief executive officer may on application in the form of the
approved form by an education service provider and on payment of the
prescribed fee amend a certificate of registration issued in relation to the
education service provider by the deletion of or addition to the education
service or education services provided or proposed to be provided by the
education service provider.
(2) The chief
executive officer shall not amend a certificate of registration by adding to
the premises at which an education service may be provided or to the education
services that may be provided under the authority of the certificate of
registration issued in relation to the education service provider unless the
chief executive officer is satisfied that the education service provider
conforms with the provisions of section 13 in relation to the education
facilities and the education service proposed to be provided by the education
service provider.
(3) Not less than 30
days before any change occurs in the particulars furnished to the chief
executive officer under section 10 or 11 or in the particulars specified in a
certificate of registration under section 17(2)(d) notice thereof together
with the prescribed fee shall be sent to the chief executive officer.
(4) Upon receipt of a
notice referred to in subsection (3) the chief executive officer may approve
of, or, if the chief executive officer is satisfied that there are reasons to
do so, refuse to approve of, all or any of the changes referred to in the
notice so submitted.
(5) If the chief
executive officer approves of the changes submitted to the chief executive
officer under subsection (3) the chief executive officer shall require the
education service provider to forward to the department the certificate of
registration issued in relation to the education service provider and shall
cause such changes to be made on the certificate as the case requires.
(6) Where the chief
executive officer refuses to approve of the changes submitted under subsection
(3) the chief executive officer shall cause the education service provider and
any other person affected to be notified in writing of the refusal.
[Section 18 amended: No. 24 of 2000 s. 13(5).]