Higher Education Funding Amendment Act 2002 (87 of 2002)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the Higher Education Funding Act 1988

Part 2   Post-graduate education loan scheme

10   Subsection 98A(1) (at the end of the definition of eligible post-graduate course of study )

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(c) if the institution is a non-self accrediting private institution:

(i) is a course that is accredited by a State or Territory accreditation agency listed in the Australian Qualifications Framework Register of Bodies with Authority to Issue Qualifications; and

(ii) is a course which the Minister is satisfied meets the criteria in place in the National Protocol for the Accreditation of Higher Education Courses to be offered by non-self accrediting providers, based on the advice of the State or Territory accreditation agency listed in the Australian Qualifications Framework Register of Bodies with Authority to Issue Qualifications.

For the purposes of paragraph (c), a part of an agency is taken to be an agency in its own right.