Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP and Providers) Act 2009 (39 of 2009)

Schedule 2   Date of effect of approval of providers

Higher Education Support Act 2003

9   Application and transitional provisions

(1) The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to the following decisions to approve bodies corporate as higher education providers or VET providers:

(a) decisions that were made on or after the commencement of this Schedule;

(b) decisions that were made before the commencement of this Schedule, except:

(i) decisions that took effect before that commencement; and

(ii) decisions, notices of which ceased to have effect under Part 5 (Parliamentary scrutiny of legislative instruments) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 before that commencement.

(2) However, a decision to approve a body corporate as a higher education provider or VET provider takes effect on the commencement of this Schedule if:

(a) notice of the approval was registered under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 before that commencement; and

(b) apart from this subitem, the decision would have taken effect before that commencement because of the amendments made by this Schedule applying as described in subitem (1).