Bill
National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment (Strengthening Quality and Integrity in Vocational Education and Training No. 1) Bill 2024
passed, as at 2024-03-28. Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment and Workplace Relations
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-02-07
- second reading — 2024-02-07
- second reading — 2024-02-13
- other — 2024-02-13
- second reading — 2024-02-14
- second reading — 2024-02-14
- other — 2024-02-14
- third reading — 2024-02-14
- introduced — 2024-02-26
- second reading — 2024-02-26
- second reading — 2024-03-21
- second reading — 2024-03-21
- committee — 2024-03-21
- third reading — 2024-03-21
- other — 2024-03-21
- passed — 2024-03-21
- royal assent — 2024-03-28
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 2024-02-07.
The bill would let the regulator automatically cancel the registration of training providers that have not delivered any training or assessment for 12 consecutive months.
Providers could apply for an extension of up to 12 months if they have a reasonable excuse, such as a natural disaster, and extension decisions could be reviewed by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
The bill would also prevent new providers from changing their approved courses in the first two years, extend the regulator's internal review period from 90 to 120 days, allow the regulator to prioritise applications, let the minister pause new registrations, and strengthen penalties for false or misleading claims.
- Automatically lapse an NVR RTO's registration if it has not provided training or assessment for 12 consecutive months.
- Allow the Regulator to grant an extension of up to 12 months before the registration lapses.
- Prevent an NVR RTO from changing its registered courses in the first two years of registration.
- Expand the period for the Regulator to conduct internal review from 90 to 120 days.
- Allow the Regulator to consider initial registration applications in an order it determines.
- Empower the Minister to determine a period where the Regulator must not accept or process initial applications for registration.
NVR RTOs (registered training organisations under the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act) and students.
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