Bill
National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment (Annual Registration Charge) Bill 2017
passed, as at 2017-06-23. Education and Training portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education and Training
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-03-30
- second reading — 2017-03-30
- second reading — 2017-06-19
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- third reading — 2017-06-20
- introduced — 2017-06-20
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- third reading — 2017-06-20
- passed — 2017-06-20
- royal assent — 2017-06-23
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-03-30.
This bill would change how the national regulator for vocational education and training collects its annual registration fees, turning them into a formal charge backed by tax law.
It would amend the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 to make certain registered training organisations and overseas student course providers liable for the new annual charge, with the amount set by the Minister and agreed by the Ministerial Council.
The bill is mostly mechanical, moving existing fees into a separate tax act to avoid constitutional issues, and it does not set the charge amounts itself.
- The bill would replace current annual registration fees with a new annual registration charge for certain providers.
- It would clarify that the charge is recoverable as a debt to the Commonwealth.
- It would align ASQA's fee structure with the Australian Government Charging Framework.
Registered training organisations and certain overseas student course providers regulated by the Australian Skills Quality Authority.
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