Higher Education Support Amendment (Further Streamlining and Other Measures) Act 2013 (Cth)

Higher Education Support Amendment (Further Streamlining and Other Measures) Act 2013

No. 23, 2013

An Act to amend the Higher Education Support Act 2003, and for related purposes

Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s) Schedule 1—Automatic revocation of approval Part 1—Amendments Higher Education Support Act 2003 Part 2—Application of amendments Schedule 2—Variation of approval: change of name Part 1—Amendments Higher Education Support Act 2003 Part 2—Application of amendments Schedule 3—Compliance Part 1—Amendments Higher Education Support Act 2003 Part 2—Application of amendments Schedule 4—Indexation Higher Education Support Act 2003 Schedule 5—Other amendments Part 1—Amendments Higher Education Support Act 2003 Part 2—Application of amendments

Higher Education Support Amendment (Further Streamlining and Other Measures) Act 2013 No. 23, 2013

An Act to amend the Higher Education Support Act 2003, and for related purposes

[Assented to 28 March 2013]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Higher Education Support Amendment (Further Streamlining and Other Measures) Act 2013.

2 Commencement This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Automatic revocation of approval

Part 1—Amendments

Higher Education Support Act 2003

1 Paragraph 22‑1(1)(a) After "Subdivision", insert "22‑AA,".

2 After Subdivision 22‑A Insert:

Subdivision 22‑AA—Revocation of approval if registration ceases or winding up order made

22‑2 Automatic revocation of approval if registration ceases (1) The Minister must revoke a body's approval as a higher education provider if: (a) the body is no longer a *registered higher education provider; and (b) in a case where *TEQSA has made either of the following decisions under the *TEQSA Act, the decision has not been set aside or quashed, and is no longer *subject to review: (i) a decision under section 36 of that Act to refuse an application to renew the body's registration under Part 3 of that Act; (ii) a decision under section 101 of that Act to cancel the body's registration under Part 3 of that Act. (2) The Minister must notify the body in writing of the revocation. The notice must specify that the revocation takes effect on the day that the notice is registered in the *Federal Register of Legislative Instruments. (3) A notice of revocation under subsection (2) is a legislative instrument, but section 42 (disallowance) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 does not apply to the notice. (4) A decision of the Minister to revoke a body's approval as a higher education provider takes effect on the day that the notice of revocation under subsection (2) is registered in the *Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.