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Vocational Education and Training (TAFE
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Act No. 27/2003
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1. Purposes 1
2. Commencement 2
3. Ministerial directions—higher education 2
4. TAFE Colleges—higher education 2
5. Victorian Qualifications Authority—delegations 2
6. Statute law revision 3
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ENDNOTES 4
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Vocational Education and Training
(TAFE Qualifications) Act 2003 †
[Assented to 13 May 2003]
The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:
1. Purposes
The main purposes of this Act are to amend—
(a) the Vocational Education and Training
Act 1990 to enable TAFE Colleges to
conduct courses in higher education and
issue higher education awards; and
(b) the Victorian Qualifications Authority Act
2000 to make further provision for
delegations to registered providers.
Victoria
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2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on 30 June 2003.
3. Ministerial directions—higher education
After section 6(1) of the Vocational Education
and Training Act 1990 insert—
"(1A) The Minister may give written directions to
the council of a TAFE College relating to—
(a) offering and conducting courses of
study leading to the conferral of higher
education awards within the meaning of
the Tertiary Education Act 1993; or
(b) the conferral of those higher education
awards.".
4. TAFE Colleges—higher education
After section 25(1)(ba) of the Vocational
Education and Training Act 1990 insert—
"(bb) to offer and conduct a course of study
leading to the conferral of a higher education
award within the meaning of the Tertiary
Education Act 1993 in accordance with that
Act; and
(bc) to confer a higher education award within the
meaning of the Tertiary Education Act
1993 in accordance with that Act; and".
5. Victorian Qualifications Authority—delegations
After section 16(2) of the Victorian
Qualifications Authority Act 2000 insert—
"(3) The Authority may, by instrument under its
common seal, delegate to a registered
education and training organisation the
power under section 21 to investigate—
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See:
Act No.
45/1990.
Reprint No. 4
as at
10 May 2001
and
amending
Act Nos
44/2001 and
11/2002.
LawToday:
www.dms.
dpc.vic.
gov.au
See:
Act No.
97/2000
and
amending
Act No.
34/2001.
LawToday:
www.dms.
dpc.vic.
gov.au
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(a) a vocational education and training
course or a sequence of vocational
education and training;
(b) a further education course, other than a
further education course leading to the
issue of a higher education award
within the meaning of the Tertiary
Education Act 1993;
(c) any part of a course referred to in
paragraph (a) or (b)—
that the registered education and training
organisation provides or proposes to provide
to determine whether it should be registered
as accredited or continue to be registered as
accredited.".
6. Statute law revision
(1) In section 3 of the Victorian Qualifications
Authority Act 2000, in the definition of
"Department" omit ", Employment".
(2) In section 86 of the Vocational Education and
Training Act 1990, for the definition of "TAFE
provider" substitute—
' "TAFE provider" means a body registered
under section 23 of the Victorian
Qualifications Authority Act 2000.'.
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ENDNOTES
† Minister's second reading speech—
Legislative Council: 20 March 2003
Legislative Assembly: 1 May 2003
The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to amend the Vocational
Education and Training Act 1990 and the Victorian Qualifications
Authority Act 2000 and for other purposes."
Endnotes
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