Higher Education (General Provisions) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 1997 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 1997 No. 199 Higher Education (General Provisions) Act 1993 HIGHER EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) AMENDMENT REGULATION (No. 1) 1997 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Insertion of new pt 4A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 PART 4A—ACCREDITATION OF COURSES 13A Application and examination fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Insertion of new s 16 and schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 16 Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SCHEDULE FEES

s1 2 s3 Higher Education (General Provisions) Amendment (No. 1) No. 199, 1997 ˙ Short title 1. This regulation may be cited as the Higher Education (General Provisions) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 1997 . ˙ Regulation amended 2. This regulation amends the HigherEducation(GeneralProvisions)Regulation 1996 . ˙ Insertion of new pt 4A 3. After section 13— insert — ‘ PART 4A—ACCREDITATION OF COURSES ˙ ‘ Application and examination fees ‘ 13A.(1) An application by a non-university provider for accreditation of 1 or more courses leading to a higher education award must be accompanied by the application fee for each course. ‘ (2) Also, if the course assessment panel for the application is to examine the applicant’s operation or proposed operation for a course, the applicant must, before the examination is conducted, pay the examination fee for the course. ‘ (3) However, if the application is for 2 or more courses and the same course assessment panel is to examine the applicant’s operation or proposed operation for more than 1 of the courses, the applicant must, before the examination is conducted, pay— (a) the examination fee for the highest fee course of the courses for which the operation or proposed operation is to be examined or, if there is more than 1 highest fee course, the examination fee for 1 of them; and (b) one-quarter of the examination fee for each other course for which the operation or proposed operation is to be examined.

s4 3 s4 Higher Education (General Provisions) Amendment (No. 1) No. 199, 1997 ‘ (4) If the applicant has made 2 or more applications at the same time, the applications are, for subsection (3), taken to have been made as 1 application. ‘ (5) In this section— “course assessment panel” means the panel established by the Minister to assess an application for accreditation of a course leading to a higher education award. “highest fee course” , for an application for accreditation of courses leading to a higher education award, means the course for which the highest examination fee is prescribed under this regulation.’. ˙ Insertion of new s 16 and schedule 4. After section 15— insert— ˙ ‘ Fees ‘ 16. The fees payable under the Act are in the schedule.

s4 4 s4 Higher Education (General Provisions) Amendment (No. 1) No. 199, 1997 ‘ SCHEDULE ‘ FEES section 16 $ 1. Application by non-university provider for accreditation of a course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 500.00 2. Examination of non-university provider’s operation, or proposed operation, for— (a) associate degree level course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 000.00 (b) bachelor degree level course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 000.00 (c) graduate/postgraduate certificate level course . . . . . . 3 000.00 (d) graduate/postgraduate diploma level course . . . . . . . 3 000.00 (e) masters degree level course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 000.00 (f) doctorate level course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 500.00’. ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Governor in Council on 3 July 1997. 2. Notified in the gazette on 4 July 1997. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Education. © State of Queensland 1997