Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 Determination of Fees (AUQA Audits) No. 1 of 2011 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

Determination of Fees (AUQA Audits) No. 1 of 2011

I, Carol Nicoll, Chief Commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency:

(i)        under subsection 158(1) of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (the Act), determine the fees that TEQSA may charge for things done in the performance of its functions to be the fees specified in the attached Schedule A; and

(ii)       under paragraph 158(3)(b) of the Act, determine the circumstances in which fees may be set off against another amount payable as specified in the attached Schedule B.

This legislative instrument commences on the date after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

Dated:  this                21^st                  day of     November     2011

[Signed]

______________________________

CAROL NICOLL

Chief Commissioner

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency

Interpretation

In this determination:

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

AUQA means the Australian Universities Quality Agency.

Changeover time means, in accordance with subitem 30(1) of Part 7 of Schedule 3 of the Consequential Act, the time before section 3 of the Act commenced.

Consequential Act means the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2011.

GST has the same meaning as it has in section 195-1 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency or TEQSA has the same meaning given at section 5 of the Act.

Schedule A – Fees

TEQSA completion of AUQA audits

(1)       In accordance with subitem 30(1) of Part 7 of Schedule 3 of the Consequential Act, this item only applies to an audit of a higher education provider (for the purposes of the Higher Education Support Act 2003) if, before the changeover time, AUQA had:

(a)       started the audit of a higher education provider; or

(b)       scheduled the audit of a higher education provider to be carried out during 2011 or 2012.

(2) For subsection 158(1) of the Act, the fee for an audit of a higher education provider mentioned in an item of the following table is the amount mentioned in that item.

Item	Activity for which the fee is imposed	Amount of the fee
1	audit visit of up to 3 days	$75,900 (inc. GST)
2	audit visit of 4 days	$82,170 (inc. GST)
3	audit visit of 5 days	$88,440 (inc. GST)

Schedule B – Fees to be set off against another amount payable

Fees paid to AUQA to be set off

(1)       In accordance with subitem 30(1) of Part 7 of Schedule 3 of the Consequential Act, this item only applies to an audit of a higher education provider (for the purposes of the Higher Education Support Act 2003), completed by TEQSA, that AUQA had:

(a)       started before the changeover time; or

(b)       scheduled to be carried out during 2011 or 2012.

(2) For paragraph 158(3)(b) of the Act, any amount which a higher education provider has paid to AUQA in respect of an audit may be set off against the fees due and payable by the higher education provider to TEQSA for the completion of that audit by TEQSA.