Vocational Education and Training (Colleges) Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2020 (WA)

23 October 2020 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3853

TRAINING

(Colleges) Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2020.

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Vocational Education and Training Act 1996

Vocational Education and Training (Colleges)

Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2020

SL 2020/200

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.   Citation

These regulations are the Vocational Education and Training

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2.           Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows -

(a)	regulations 1 and 2—on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations - on the day after that day.

3.           Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Vocational Education and Training (Colleges) Regulations 1996.
4.	Regulation 3 amended In regulation 3(1) insert in alphabetical order:

concessional or youth student means a person who -

(a)	is a concessional student; or
(b)	has reached 15 years of age but has not reached the end of the calendar year in which they reached 25 years of age;

5.           Regulation 4 amended

(1)	In regulation 4(2)(a)(ii), (b)(ii), (c)(ii) and (e) after "should" insert:
generally
(2)	After regulation 4(2) insert:

(3A) In the instrument referred to in subregulation (1), the

chief executive may specify that a category 1, 2, 3, 4 or

by a concessional or youth student. 5 course is a course for which no course fee is payable

6.

Regulation 4A amended Delete regulation 4A(7) and insert:

(7) If, before amendment day, a person paid, or arranged to the satisfaction of a college for the payment of, an amount of course fees that includes an amount for units commenced on or after amendment day and that, because of the reclassification of a course, is less than the amount of course fees payable by the person, the person is not required to pay the difference between the amount paid, or arranged to be paid, and the amount payable.

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7.     Regulation 12 amended

In regulation 12(1) delete the definition of concessional or youth student.

8.      Regulation 13 amended

Before regulation 13(3) insert:

(1) No course fee is payable by a concessional or youth
student for a course specified under regulation 4(3A).

9.      Regulation 17 amended

In regulation 17(2)(b)(i) delete "Division 2, including any amount payable under regulation 4A(7)," and insert:

Division 2

10. Regulation 20 amended
After regulation 20(2)(c) insert:

(ca) persons for whom an entity is entitled to a

jobkeeper payment under the Coronavirus

Economic Response Package (Payments and

Benefits) Rules 2020 (Commonwealth);

(cb) persons in receipt of services from a jobactive

provider under the employment services program provided by the Commonwealth known as jobactive;

(cc) persons participating as job seekers in the

employment services program provided by the

Commonwealth known as Online Employment

Services;

(cd) parents or carers participating in the support

program provided by the Commonwealth

known as ParentsNext;

V. MOLAN, Clerk of the Executive Council.