VET Student Payment Arrangements (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2021 (17 of 2021)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 2   Amendments commencing 1 July 2021

Higher Education Support Act 2003

14   Division 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 1A

Repeal the Division, substitute:

Division 5 - Revocation of VET provider approvals

29 Revocation of approval

Revocation of approval

(1) If an approval of a body as a *VET provider is in force immediately before 1 July 2021, the approval is revoked at the start of that day.

Continuing application of Act etc.

(2) Despite the revocation of a body's approval as a *VET provider by subclause (1):

(a) the Act, and the *VET Guidelines, continue to apply in relation to the body on and after 1 July 2021 as if the body were still a VET provider; and

(b) any conditions:

(i) imposed on the approval of the body; and

(ii) in effect immediately before 1 July 2021;

continue to apply to the body on and after 1 July 2021 as if the body were still a VET provider.

(3) Subclause (2) applies for the purpose of dealing with or resolving any matter that arose under this Act during, or that relates to, the period when the body was approved as a *VET provider.

(4) To avoid doubt, if a body that has had its approval revoked by subclause (1) would be required or empowered, but for the revocation, to do a thing under, or for the purposes of, Subdivision 7-B of Division 7 of Part 2 (which deals with re-crediting), the body is, on and after 1 July 2021, required or empowered to do the thing as if the body were still a *VET provider.

Interaction with the Acts Interpretation Act 1901

(5) This clause does not limit the effect of section 7 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.