Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2011 (74 of 2011)

Schedule 3  

Part 7   Audits

30   TEQSA is to complete AUQA audits etc.

(1) For the purposes of the Higher Education Support Act 2003:

(a) TEQSA may complete an audit of a higher education provider that AUQA started before the time (the changeover time ) section 3 of the TEQSA Act commences; and

(b) TEQSA may audit a higher education provider if AUQA had, before the changeover time, scheduled the audit to be carried out during 2011 or 2012.

(2) Subitem (3) applies if, before the changeover time, a thing was done by, or in relation to, AUQA for an audit covered by subitem (1).

(3) For the purposes of the Higher Education Support Act 2003, the thing is taken, after the changeover time, to have been done by, or in relation to, TEQSA.

(4) The Minister may, by writing, determine that subitem (3) does not apply in relation to a specified thing done by, or in relation to, AUQA.

(5) To avoid doubt, doing a thing includes making an instrument.

(6) A determination under subitem (4) is not a legislative instrument.

(7) To avoid doubt, TEQSA may carry out a quality assessment or compliance assessment of a registered higher education provider under the TEQSA Act at any time even if this item applies in relation to the provider.