Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Determination of Fees (Amendment) 2020 (Cth)

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Determination of Fees (Amendment) 2020

The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency hereby amends the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Determination of Fees No. 1 of 2020, made on 30 April 2020, as specified in the Schedule to this instrument.

Dated: 27 July 2020

________________________ ___________________ Professor Nicholas Saunders AO Professor Peter Coaldrake Chief Commissioner Commissioner

Professor Joan Cooper Professor Cliff Walsh

Commissioner Commissioner

1 Name of determination

This determination is the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Determination of Fees (Amendment) 2020.

2 Commencement

This determination commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Authority

This determination is made under subsections 158(1) and 158(3) of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.

4 Amendments

The instrument that is specified in the Schedule to this instrument is amended as set out in the items in the Schedule.

Schedule 1 – Amendments

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Determination of Fees No. 1 of 2020

1 Schedule A, section (1), table item 4

Repeal the item, substitute

4 Substantive Assessment of Application for registration as a higher education provider – s 20 of the Act $16,500

Where the application is not one to which Item 3 applies

2 Schedule B

Repeal the Schedule, insert

Part 1 – Waiver and refund of fees

1 Waiver of fees - general

TEQSA may waive all or part of the fees payable in Schedule A of this instrument in the following circumstances:

(a) when an applicant was registered under one or more State or Territory laws relating to higher education immediately prior to 29 January 2012 but did not offer or confer a regulated higher education award immediately prior to that date, all or part of the following fees may be waived: