AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Vocational Education and Training
(Amendment) Act 1997
No. 43 of 1997
	
An Act to amend the Vocational Education and Training Act 1995
[Notified in ACT Gazette S264: 19 September 1997]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Vocational Education and Training (Amendment) Act 1997.
Commencement
2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.
Principal Act
3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Vocational Education and Training Act 1995.1
Substitution
4.  Section 8 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:
Annual report
“8.  The report prepared by the Authority for the purposes of section 8 of the Annual Reports (Government Agencies) Act 1995 shall include, in relation to the reporting period—
	(a)	an account of the implementation of the State Training Profile for the Territory agreed under the NVETS Statement, including a performance evaluation;
	(b)	particulars of any directions under subsection 50 (1) given to the Authority by the Minister during the period to which the report relates; and
	(c)	a statement by the Authority indicating how effect has been given to those directions.”.
Substitution
5.  Section 15 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:
Annual report
“15.  The report prepared by the Council for the purposes of section 8 of the Annual Reports (Government Agencies) Act 1995 shall include, in relation to the reporting period—
	(a)	particulars of any directions under subsection 50 (1) given to the Council by the Minister during the period to which the report relates; and
	(b)	a statement by the Council indicating how effect has been given to those directions.”.
Insertion
6.  After section 19 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Deemed registration of pre-1996 providers
“19A.  (1)  Where—
	(a)	before 1 January 1996, the ACT Accreditation Agency issued to a vocational education and training provider a certificate of registration certifying that the provider had met the standard required by the ACT Accreditation Agency for the delivery of an accredited course; and
	(b)	the certificate had effect immediately before that date;
that provider shall be deemed to have been registered under paragraph 19 (1) (a) on that date subject to the conditions (if any) specified in the certificate, and on or after the commencement of this section the purported registration referred to in the certificate is void and ceases to have effect for any purpose.
“(2)  Registration  deemed to have been effected by virtue of subsection (1)—
	(a)	may be cancelled in accordance with section 20 or 21; and
	(b)	unless sooner so cancelled, shall be taken to have expired when the relevant certificate of registration referred to in that subsection would have expired.
 “(3)  In this section—
‘accredited course’ means a sequence of vocational education and training that was accredited by the ACT Accreditation Agency before 1 January 1996.”.
	
NOTE
Principal Act
1.	Act No. 37, 1995.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 15 May 1997]

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