Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Fit and Proper Person Determination 2018 (Cth)

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Fit and Proper Person Determination 2018

The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency hereby makes the following Determination.

Dated: 6 December 2018

Signed

_____________________ ___________________ _______________ Professor Nicholas Saunders AO Professor Cliff Walsh Dr Linley Martin

Chief Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner

Part 1 - Preliminary 1 Name of Determination

This Determination is the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Fit and Proper Person Determination 2018.

2 Commencement

This Determination commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Authority

This Determination is made under subsection 7A(2) of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.

4 Interpretation

In this Determination:

Act means the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.

National VET Regulator means the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator established by the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011.

Registered higher education provider has the same meaning as it has in the Act.

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency or TEQSA has the same meaning as in the Act.

Part 2 – Fit and proper person 5 Fit and Proper Person Considerations

TEQSA may, in determining whether a person is a fit and proper person for the purposes of the Act, have regard to the matters specified in this Part.

6 Compliance with the law (1) TEQSA may have regard to whether the person has been convicted of an offence against, or ordered to pay a pecuniary penalty under, a law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory.

Note: Part VIIC of the Crimes Act 1914 includes provisions that, in certain circumstances, relieve persons from the requirement to disclose spent convictions and require persons aware of such convictions to disregard them.