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

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 1   Amendments commencing day after Royal Assent

VET Student Loans Act 2016

7   After section 35

Insert:

35A Automatic revocation if body ceases to be a registered training organisation

(1) The approval of a body as an approved course provider is revoked if:

(a) the body ceases to be listed as a registered training organisation on the National Register (within the meaning of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011); and

(b) in each case where the relevant VET Regulator has made a decision covered by subsection (2):

(i) the decision has not been set aside or quashed; and

(ii) any applicable time limits for applying for a review (however described) or lodging an appeal (however described) of or in relation to the decision have expired; and

(iii) if there is such a review or appeal of or in relation to the decision - the review or appeal (and any later reviews or appeals) have been finally disposed of.

(2) The decisions are:

(a) a decision under section 17 of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 to refuse an application to renew the body's registration as an NVR registered training organisation (within the meaning of that Act); and

(b) a decision under section 39 of that Act to cancel the body's registration as an NVR registered training organisation; and

(c) a decision under a law of a State that has a similar effect to a decision referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

(3) The revocation of the body's approval as an approved course provider takes effect at the start of the day after the first day on which subsection (1) applies to the body.

(4) The Secretary must notify the body in writing of the revocation.