Western Australian Consolidated Acts

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING ACT 1996 - SECT 58

58 .         Regulations for this Part

                Without limiting the generality of section 67(1), regulations made under section 67 for the purposes of this Part may do any of the following —

            (a)         provide for who may apply to the Council;

            (b)         provide for how applications to the Council must be made;

            (c)         prescribe criteria (including standards and guidelines) that the Council must or may take into account when deciding an application made to it;

            (d)         prescribe the conditions that the Council may impose when registering a training provider, including but not limited to conditions that limit —

                  (i)         the approved VET courses that the provider can provide;

                  (ii)         who the provider can assess for approved VET qualifications or prescribed VET qualifications;

                  (iii)         the approved VET qualifications or prescribed VET qualifications that the provider can confer;

            (e)         provide for the conditions that the Council may impose when accrediting a VET course;

            (f)         provide for the period of any registration of a training provider or any accreditation of a VET course;

            (g)         provide for any matter of a savings nature that may be needed when the accreditation of a VET course expires;

            (h)         provide for a register of decisions by the Council;

                  (i)         prescribe the circumstances that justify the Council deciding to —

                  (i)         vary, suspend or cancel the registration of a training provider or the accreditation of a VET course;

                  (ii)         make an order against a registered training provider whose registration was not granted by the Council;

            (j)         confer a discretion on the Council;

            (k)         require registered training providers and persons who hold an accreditation of a VET course to give the Council information, including when a registration or accreditation is suspended;

            (l)         provide for registered training providers to keep records relevant to vocational education and training;

            (m)         require persons who cease to be registered training providers to provide the Council with records of —

                  (i)         the courses they provided, in whole or part, and the persons to whom such courses were provided; and

                  (ii)         the qualifications they conferred and the persons on whom the qualifications were conferred,

                before ceasing to be registered;

            (n)         prescribe fees to be paid by —

                  (i)         persons applying to the Council;

                  (ii)         registered training providers and persons who hold an accreditation of a VET course, including when a registration or accreditation is suspended;

                  (iii)         registered training providers and persons who hold an accreditation of a VET course for any inquiry the Council makes under section 58D;

                  (iv)         persons applying to the Council for a copy of any record about the person held by the Council.

        [Section 58 inserted by No. 44 of 2008 s. 38.]

        [Heading inserted by No. 44 of 2008 s. 39.]

        [Heading inserted by No. 44 of 2008 s. 39.]

[ 59.         Deleted by No. 44 of 2008 s. 39.]