Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations Australian Capital Territory Numbered RegulationsIn this part:
"AQF"—see Australian qualifications framework .
"AQTF"—see Australian quality training framework .
"Australian qualifications framework "(or AQF ) means the policy framework that defines all qualifications recognised nationally in post-compulsory education and training in Australia.
"Australian quality training framework "(or AQTF ) means the national quality arrangements for the vocational education and training system agreed to by the Ministerial Council.
"Commonwealth regulatory authority" means the government authority responsible for administering the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991 (Cwlth).
"construction induction training" means construction induction training under division 9.3.
"construction induction training card"—
(a) means a construction induction training card issued by the chief executive under section 177; and
(b) in divisions 9.2 and 9.6, includes a card or certificate issued by a licensing authority under a corresponding law to a person who has completed induction training for the construction industry.
"construction site" means a workplace at which construction work is carried out.
"construction work" means any work carried out on or near a construction site in relation to the construction of a structure—
(a) including the following:
(i) demolishing or dismantling all or part of the structure and removing from the site anything resulting from the demolition or dismantlement;
(ii) assembling prefabricated elements to form the structure or disassembling the prefabricated elements that formed the structure;
(iii) excavation, landscaping, preparatory work or site preparation carried out on the site;
(iv) work carried out under water, including on a buoy, an obstruction to navigation, a raft, ship or wreck; but
(b) not including exploring for, or extracting, minerals or preparatory work in relation to the extraction carried out where exploration or extraction is carried out.
"corresponding law" means a law mentioned in schedule 2.
"licensing authority" means the authority responsible for the issue of a construction induction training card under a corresponding law.
"Ministerial Council" means the council consisting of the Ministers responsible for employment, education and training, from the ACT, each State and the Commonwealth.
Note State includes the Northern Territory (see Legislation Act, dict, pt 1, def "State").
"nationally endorsed", for a training package, means endorsed by the committee known as the national training quality committee established by the Ministerial Council.
"registered training organisation" means—
(a) a training organisation registered under the Training and Tertiary Education Act 2003 , chapter 3; or
(b) a training organisation registered by a state registering body in accordance with the Australian quality training framework within a defined scope of registration.
"statement of attainment" means a statement issued by a registered training organisation under the Australian qualifications framework certifying that a person has achieved—
(a) part of a qualification; or
(b) 1 or more units of competency from a nationally endorsed training package; or
(c) all the units of competency or modules comprising learning outcomes for an accredited course that does not meet the requirements for a qualification.
training package means an integrated set of competency standards, assessment guidelines and AQF qualifications for a particular industry, industry sector or enterprise.
unit of competency means the specification of knowledge and skill and their application to the standard of performance expected in a workplace.
Division 9.2 Requirement to hold construction induction training card