Version No. 033
Tertiary Education Act 1993
Act No. 18/1993
Version incorporating amendments as at 9 August 2005
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
PART 1—PRELIMINARY
1.Purpose
2.Commencement
3.Definitions
PART 2—CO-ORDINATION OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Division 1—General
4.Establishment of bodies to advise Minister
5.Supply of information
6.Endorsement of courses of study for overseas students
7.Repealed
8.Power to acquire land
Division 2—Higher Education
9.Interpretation
10.Only approved universities to operate in Victoria
11.Accreditation and authorisation to conduct courses
11A.Review of operations of universities, institutions and courses
11B.Authorised officers
11C.Identification
11D.Powers of authorised officers
12.Register of Higher Education
Division 3—Student fees, subscriptions and charges
12A.Definition
12B.Application of Division
12C.Repealed
12D.Provision for declining automatic membership of a student organisation
12E.Students who do not join student organisation
12F.Limitation on powers to spend funds from compulsory non‑academic fees etc.
12G.Voluntary fees held on trust
12H.Offence
12I.Statement about compulsory fees etc.
12J.Transitional about the use of certain money
PART 3—INCORPORATION OF COUNCILS
13.Application
14.Post-secondary education institutions
15.Incorporation of councils
16.Award of degrees or diplomas
17–20.Repealed
PART 4—GENERAL
21.Delegation
22.Regulations
PART 5—ABOLITION OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION COMMISSION
23.Repeal
24.Abolition of Post-Secondary Education Commission
25.Annual report of abolished Commission
26.Post-graduate courses at Swinburne University of Technology
PART 6—TRANSITIONALS AND SAVINGS
27.Saving of guidelines
28.Commencement of deemed approval for certain universities
29–34.Repealed
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SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1—Universities
SCHEDULE 2—Autonomous College
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ENDNOTES
1. General Information
2. Table of Amendments
3. Explanatory Details
Version No. 033
Tertiary Education Act 1993
Act No. 18/1993
Version incorporating amendments as at 9 August 2005
The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:
PART 1—PRELIMINARY
1.Purpose
The main purpose of this Act is to provide for the better promotion, development and co-ordination of post-secondary education in Victoria.
2.Commencement
(1)Section 1 and this section come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(2)Subject to sub-section (3), the remaining provisions of this Act come into operation on a day or days to be proclaimed.
(3)If a provision referred to in sub-section (2) does not come into operation within the period of 6 months beginning on, and including, the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it comes into operation on the first day after the end of that period.
3.Definitions
In this Act—
"autonomous college" means a college specified in Schedule 2;
"further education" means that part of technical and further education which is not vocational education and training within the meaning of the Vocational Education and Training Act 1990 and which is not provided by a university or autonomous college;
"post-secondary education" means education of persons—
(a)who are beyond the age of compulsory school attendance; and
(b)who are not undergoing a course of secondary education;
"post-secondary education institution" means an institution which is supported directly or indirectly by government funds providing post-secondary education including but not limited to a TAFE college, an autonomous college and a university;
"post-secondary education provider" means a post-secondary education institution or other institution or person or body providing or offering to…