AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Vocational Education and Training Amendment Act 2000
No 44 of 2000
	
An Act to amend the Vocational Education and Training Act 1995
[Notified in ACT Gazette S51: 11 September 2000]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1 	Name of Act
	This Act is the Vocational Education and Training Amendment Act 2000.
2 	Commencement
	This Act commences on the day it is notified in the Gazette.
3 	Act amended
	This Act amends the Vocational Education and Training Act 1995.
4 	Interpretation
	Section 4 is amended—
	(a)	by omitting the heading and substituting the following heading:
“4 	Definitions for Act”; and
	(b)	by omitting from subsection (1) “In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—” and substituting “In this Act:”; and
	(c)	by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition:
“university means a higher education institution that is—
	(a)	established or recognised as a university under a law of the Commonwealth or a State; or
	(b)	established in a foreign country and recognised by the authority in the foreign country that, in the Minister’s opinion, based on reasonable grounds, is the competent authority for the purpose; or
	(c)	recognised by the regulations as a university.”.
5 	Application
	Section 16 is amended by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(1A) 	A person who develops or provides a higher education course may apply to the council for accreditation of the course.”.
6 	False advertising
	Section 23 is amended by omitting the heading and substituting the following heading:
“23 	False advertising—vocational education and training courses”.
7 	Insertion
	After section 23, the following section is inserted:
“23A 	False advertising—higher education courses
“(1) 	A person must not advertise the provision of a higher education course that is not accredited under Division 1.
Maximum penalty:  30 penalty units.
“(2) 	Subsection (1) does not apply if the higher education course is provided by a university.
“(3) 	A person must not hold out a higher education course that is not accredited under Division 1 as being so accredited.
Maximum penalty:  30 penalty units.”.
8 	Membership of council
	Section 41 is amended by adding at the end the following paragraph:
	“(g)	not more than 2 persons with expertise in higher education.”.

Endnotes
Act amended
1	Republished as in force on 31 January 1998.
Penalty units
2	Section 33AA of the Interpretation Act 1967 deals with the meaning of offence penalties that are expressed in penalty units.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 29 August 2000]

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