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Tuition Protection (Up-front Payments Guidelines) (Levy Waiver) Amendment 2021

I, Stuart Robert, Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, make the following instrument.

Dated 23 December 2021

Stuart Robert

Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedule

Schedule 1—Amendments

Tuition Protection (Up-front Payments Guidelines) 2020

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Tuition Protection (Up-front Payments Guidelines) (Levy Waiver) Amendment 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 26B of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.

4  Schedule

  The instrument specified in the Schedule to this instrument is amended as set out in the Schedule.

Schedule 1Amendments

Tuition Protection (Up-front Payments Guidelines) 2020

1  Section 8

Repeal section 8, substitute:

8 Waiver

 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 26A(5)(f) of the Act, liability to pay the up-front payments tuition protection levy is waived for all registered higher education providers for the calendar year 2021.

 (2) For the purposes of paragraph 26A(5)(f) of the Act, liability to pay the up-front payments tuition protection levy for a year is waived if:

 (a) the provider’s registration is cancelled under the Act; or

 (b) the provider is no longer in operation

  prior to the time the Higher Education Tuition Protection Director issues a notice under section 6.