Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Act 2011 (130 of 2011)

Schedule 1   Student services and amenities

Higher Education Support Act 2003

6   After section 19-65

Insert:

19-67 Special requirements for student services, amenities, representation and advocacy in 2012 and later years

(1) A higher education provider that receives a grant under Part 2-2 in respect of the year 2012 or a later year must comply in respect of the year with the requirements of the Student Services, Amenities, Representation and Advocacy Guidelines as those guidelines were in force on the 30 June just before the year.

Note: The Student Services, Amenities, Representation and Advocacy Guidelines are made by the Minister under section 238-10.

(2) The Student Services, Amenities, Representation and Advocacy Guidelines may provide for:

(a) requirements for providing students with information about services that are not of an academic nature and that support students; and

(b) requirements for providing students with access to such services; and

(c) requirements relating to the representation and advocacy of the interests of students.

(3) However, the Student Services, Amenities, Representation and Advocacy Guidelines cannot require a provider to fund an organisation of students, or of students and other persons.

(4) Subsection 19-65(1) does not apply in relation to the Student Services, Amenities, Representation and Advocacy Guidelines.