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Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Amendment Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 23 November 2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Jason Clare

Minister for Education

1 Name

This instrument is the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Amendment Regulations 2023.

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	1 January 2024.	1 January 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Act 2021.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Regulations 2022

1 Subsection 5(2) (formula)

Repeal the formula, substitute:

$Start formula start fraction 6,465,000 divided by number of providers end fraction plus open bracket start fraction 197,000 divided by total equivalent full time students end fraction multiplied by provider’s equivalent full time students close bracket end formula$

2 After paragraph 5(4)(b)

Insert:

(ba) if, in the previous year, TEQSA decided to conduct one or more audits of the provider under subsection 112A(1) of the ESOS Act—$36,000 for each audit;

3 Subparagraph 5(4)(c)(ii)

Omit “$8,375”, substitute “$4,100”.

4 After subsection 7(1)

Insert:

(1A) Paragraph 5(4)(ba) applies in relation to an audit conducted on or after 1 January 2024.