Vocational Education and Training Amendment Act 2000 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Vocational Education and Training Amendment Act 2000

No 44 of 2000

An Act to amend the Vocational Education and Training Act 1995

[Notified in ACT Gazette S51: 11 September 2000]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

1. Name of Act

   This Act is the Vocational Education and Training Amendment Act 2000.

2. Commencement

   This Act commences on the day it is notified in the Gazette.

3. Act amended

   This Act amends the Vocational Education and Training Act 1995.

4. Interpretation

   Section 4 is amended—

(a)by omitting the heading and substituting the following heading:

“4      Definitions for Act”; and

(b)by omitting from subsection (1) “In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—” and substituting “In this Act:”; and

(c)by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition:

“university means a higher education institution that is—

(a)established or recognised as a university under a law of the Commonwealth or a State; or

(b)established in a foreign country and recognised by the authority in the foreign country that, in the Minister’s opinion, based on reasonable grounds, is the competent authority for the purpose; or

(c)recognised by the regulations as a university.”.

1. Application

   Section 16 is amended by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

“(1A)  A person who develops or provides a higher education course may apply to the council for accreditation of the course.”.

1. False advertising

   Section 23 is amended by omitting the heading and substituting the following heading:

“23     False advertising—vocational education and training courses”.

1. Insertion

   After section 23, the following section is inserted:

“23A  False advertising—higher education courses

“(1)     A person must not advertise the provision of a higher education course that is not accredited under Division 1.

Maximum penalty:  30 penalty units.

“(2)    Subsection (1) does not apply if the higher education course is provided by a university.

“(3)    A person must not hold out a higher education course that is not accredited under Division 1 as being so accredited.

Maximum penalty:  30 penalty units.”.

1. Membership of council

   Section 41 is amended by adding at the end the following paragraph:

“(g)not more than 2 persons with expertise in higher education.”.

Endnotes

Act amended

1. Republished as in force on 31 January 1998.

Penalty units

1. Section 33AA of the Interpretation Act 1967 deals with the meaning of offence penalties that are expressed in penalty units.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 29 August 2000]

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