Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2011 (74 of 2011)

Schedule 3

Part 2 Transferring existing State registrations to TEQSA system etc.

Division 1 Transferring existing State registrations etc.

2 State registered provider automatically registered for the TEQSA Act

(1) If a higher education provider was, immediately before the transition time, registered under one or more State or Territory laws relating to higher education, the provider is taken to be a registered higher education provider for the purposes of the TEQSA Act.

Note 1: This automatic registration means, for example, that the provider must comply with conditions imposed from time to time on the registration (see section 24 of that Act).

Note 2: For the meaning of transition time , see subitem 1(1).

(2) The provider’s registration is for the period:

(a) starting at the transition time; and

(b) ending at the later of:

(i) if the provider is covered by a table item in subitem (3) - the end of the day set out in that table item; and

(ii) if the provider is not covered by a table item in subitem (3) - the latest time the provider would cease to be registered under a State or Territory law referred to in subitem (1) or, if applicable, subitem 4(1) (ignoring the enactment of the TEQSA Act); and

(iii) the end of the period specified in the most recent notice (if any) given under section 37 (about renewals of registration) of the TEQSA Act in relation to the registration.

Note 1: This automatic registration may be renewed under Division 3 of Part 3 of the TEQSA Act.

Note 2: If the provider is covered by a table item in subitem (3), the day set out in that table item is the day its registration is to end for the purposes of section 35 (about renewing registration) of the TEQSA Act.

(3) The table is as follows:

Last day of automatic registration for certain providers
Item	Provider	Last day
1	The Australian National University	31 December 2012
2	The Flinders University of South Australia	31 December 2012
3	Monash University	31 December 2012
4	Murdoch University	31 December 2012
5	University of Technology, Sydney	31 December 2012
6	University of the Sunshine Coast	31 December 2012
7	Victoria University	31 December 2012
8	Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education	31 December 2012
9	Melbourne College of Divinity	31 December 2012
10	Southern Cross University	31 March 2015
11	University of Newcastle	30 April 2015
12	Swinburne University of Technology	31 May 2015
13	Griffith University	30 June 2015
14	Australian Catholic University	31 August 2015
15	The University of Adelaide	30 September 2015
16	Curtin University of Technology	31 October 2015
17	University of Canberra	31 October 2015
18	University of Notre Dame	31 October 2015
19	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology	31 March 2016
20	The University of Queensland	31 March 2016
21	Macquarie University	31 May 2016
22	The University of Western Australia	31 May 2016
23	University of Ballarat	30 June 2016
24	University of Southern Queensland	30 June 2016
25	University of New England	31 July 2016
26	University of South Australia	31 August 2016
27	La Trobe University	30 September 2016
28	Charles Sturt University	31 October 2016
29	Bond University	30 April 2017
30	The University of Melbourne	31 May 2017
31	Central Queensland University	31 October 2017
32	University of Wollongong	31 March 2018
33	Charles Darwin University	31 May 2018
34	University of Western Sydney	31 May 2018
35	Deakin University	30 June 2018
36	James Cook University	30 June 2018
37	University of New South Wales	30 June 2018
38	The University of Sydney	31 August 2018
39	Edith Cowan University	31 October 2018
40	Queensland University of Technology	31 October 2018
41	University of Tasmania	31 October 2018

(4) Paragraph (2)(b) has effect subject to the following provisions of the TEQSA Act:

(a) subsection 36(3) (about renewing registration) and section 43 (about withdrawing registration);

(b) Division 1 of Part 7 (about cancelling registration and other administrative sanctions).

Note: The registration may also end early under paragraph 8(4)(b) (about TEQSA not lifting a suspension of the registration).

(5) Subitem (2) applies to the registration instead of section 23 (about commencement and duration of registration) of the TEQSA Act.

(6) Subitems (1) and (2) have effect subject to Division 3 (about suspensions of automatic registrations).

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