Vocational Education and Training (TAFE Qualifications) Act 2003 (Vic)

Vocational Education and Training (TAFE

Qualifications) Act 2003

Act No. 27/2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page

1.	Purposes	1
2.	Commencement	2
3.	Ministerial directions—higher education	2
4.	TAFE Colleges—higher education	2
5.	Victorian Qualifications Authority—delegations	2
6.	Statute law revision	3

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Victoria

No. 27 of 2003

Vocational Education and Training

(TAFE Qualifications) Act 2003†

[Assented to 13 May 2003]

The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:

1. Purposes

The main purposes of this Act are to amend—

(a)	the Vocational Education and Training Act 1990 to enable TAFE Colleges to conduct courses in higher education and issue higher education awards; and
(b)

the Victorian Qualifications Authority Act delegations to registered providers.

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2. Commencement

This Act comes into operation on 30 June 2003.

3. Ministerial directions—higher education

See:

After section 6(1) of the Vocational Education	Act No.
and Training Act 1990 insert—	45/1990. Reprint No. 4
"(1A) The Minister may give written directions to	as at 10 May 2001

the council of a TAFE College relating to—	and amending
(a) offering and conducting courses of	Act Nos

study leading to the conferral of higher	44/2001 and
11/2002.
education awards within the meaning of	LawToday:
the Tertiary Education Act 1993; or	dpc.vic. gov.au

(b) the conferral of those higher education awards.".

4. TAFE Colleges—higher education

After section 25(1)(ba) of the Vocational

Education and Training Act 1990 insert—

"(bb) to offer and conduct a course of study

leading to the conferral of a higher education
award within the meaning of the Tertiary
Education Act 1993 in accordance with that

Act; and

(bc) to confer a higher education award within the

meaning of the Tertiary Education Act 1993 in accordance with that Act; and".

5. Victorian Qualifications Authority—delegations

See:

After section 16(2) of the Victorian	Act No.
Qualifications Authority Act 2000 insert—	97/2000 and
"(3) The Authority may, by instrument under its	amending Act No.

common seal, delegate to a registered	34/2001.
education and training organisation the	LawToday:
power under section 21 to investigate—	dpc.vic. gov.au

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(a)	a vocational education and training course or a sequence of vocational education and training;
(b)	a further education course, other than a further education course leading to the issue of a higher education award
within the meaning of the Tertiary Education Act 1993;
(c)	any part of a course referred to in paragraph (a) or (b)—

that the registered education and training
organisation provides or proposes to provide
to determine whether it should be registered
as accredited or continue to be registered as

accredited.".

6. Statute law revision

(1) In section 3 of the Victorian Qualifications

Authority Act 2000, in the definition of
"Department" omit ", Employment".

(2) In section 86 of the Vocational Education and Training Act 1990, for the definition of "TAFE provider" substitute—

' "TAFE provider" means a body registered

under section 23 of the Victorian

Qualifications Authority Act 2000.'.

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ENDNOTES

†

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Council: 20 March 2003

Legislative Assembly: 1 May 2003

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to amend the Vocational
Education and Training Act 1990 and the Victorian Qualifications
Authority Act 2000 and for other purposes."