Bill
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Prohibiting Academic Cheating Services) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2020-09-03. Education portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-12-04
- second reading — 2019-12-04
- second reading — 2020-06-12
- second reading — 2020-06-12
- third reading — 2020-06-12
- introduced — 2020-06-12
- second reading — 2020-06-12
- second reading — 2020-08-24
- second reading — 2020-08-25
- second reading — 2020-08-26
- second reading — 2020-08-26
- committee — 2020-08-26
- third reading — 2020-08-26
- passed — 2020-08-26
- royal assent — 2020-09-03
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 2019-12-04.
This bill would create new criminal offences for providing or advertising academic cheating services in Australian higher education.
The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency would enforce the new laws, including investigating suspected offences and seeking court orders to block websites that promote cheating services.
Offences committed on a commercial basis would carry both criminal and civil penalties, while unpaid cheating services would face only civil penalties.
- Makes it an offence to provide or advertise academic cheating services for higher education in Australia.
- Expands TEQSA's role to include education, intelligence gathering, website blocking, investigation, and referral of matters to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
- Distinguishes between commercial cheating services, which attract criminal and civil penalties, and unpaid cheating services, which attract only civil penalties.
Higher education providers, students, third-party cheating service providers, and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency.
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