Higher Education Support Act 2003
Note:
See section 6-1 .
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View history noteSch 1A inserted by No 170 of 2007, s 3 and Sch 1 item 17, effective 1 January 2008.
The * VET Guidelines may make provision for or in relation to requiring or permitting information or documents to be given by students to * VET providers, or by VET providers to students, in accordance with particular information technology requirements:
(a) on a particular kind of data storage device; or
(b) by means of a particular kind of electronic communication.
Pt 3 cl 70(1) amended by No 160 of 2012, s 3 and Sch 3 item 40, by omitting " Administration " before " Guidelines " , applicable: (a) for the purposes of making a decision on an application for approval as a VET provider under clause 6 of Schedule 1A to the Higher Education Support Act 2003 - in relation to applications for approval made on or after 1 January 2013; and (b) in any other case - in relation to a VET provider approved before, on or after 1 January 2013.
70(2)
The * VET Guidelines may make provision for or in relation to requiring, in relation to an electronic communication from a student to a * VET provider:
(a) that the communication contain an electronic signature (however described); or
(b) that the communication contain a unique identification in an electronic form; or
(c) that a particular method be used to identify the originator of the communication and to indicate the originator ' s approval of the information communicated.
Pt 3 cl 70(2) amended by No 160 of 2012, s 3 and Sch 3 item 40, by omitting " Administration " before " Guidelines " , applicable: (a) for the purposes of making a decision on an application for approval as a VET provider under clause 6 of Schedule 1A to the Higher Education Support Act 2003 - in relation to applications for approval made on or after 1 January 2013; and (b) in any other case - in relation to a VET provider approved before, on or after 1 January 2013.
70(3)
The reference in subclause (1) to giving information includes a reference to anything that is giving information for the purposes of section 9 of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 .
70(4)
In this clause:
data storage device
has the same meaning as in the
Electronic Transactions Act 1999
.
"electronic communication"
has the same meaning as in the
Electronic Transactions Act 1999
.
information
has the same meaning as in the
Electronic Transactions Act 1999
.
information technology requirements
has the same meaning as in the
Electronic Transactions Act 1999
.
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