Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Workplace Relations Requirements) Act 2005

Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Workplace Relations Requirements) Act 2005

No. 139, 2005

An Act to amend the Higher Education Support Act 2003 in relation to workplace relations, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Higher Education Support Act 2003

Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Workplace Relations Requirements) Act 2005

No. 139, 2005

An Act to amend the Higher Education Support Act 2003 in relation to workplace relations, and for related purposes

[Assented to 18 November 2005]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Workplace Relations Requirements) Act 2005.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Higher Education Support Act 2003

1  Paragraphs 33‑15(1)(b) and (c)

Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:

 (b) the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines impose on higher education providers requirements to be known as the Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements; and

 (c) the Minister is satisfied that the provider met the requirements in paragraphs (a) and (b) as at the dates that are specified in the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines in relation to each of those requirements, in the year preceding that year.

2  Saving provision

Despite item 1 of this Schedule, subsection 33‑15(1) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act is to be taken to continue in force, in relation to a higher education provider’s basic grant amount for a grant year before the grant year 2006, as if that subsection had not been amended.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 23 June 2005

Senate on 12 October 2005]