Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ACT 1988 - SECT 98T

Post - commencement assessment statement

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person holds a qualification awarded in a foreign country; and

  (b)   the qualification relates to a listed professional occupation; and

  (c)   the person proposes to seek entry to that occupation in Australia;

a relevant assessing body for that occupation may give the person a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the body, if the person were to do any or all of the following:

  (d)   successfully undertake additional studies of a kind specified in the statement;

  (e)   be successful in one or more examinations specified in the statement;

  (f)   successfully undertake a tuition and training program of a kind specified in the statement;

the person would meet the requirements for entry to that occupation in Australia.

Note:   A statement could specify one of the things mentioned in paragraph   (d), (e) or (f) or any combination of the things mentioned in those paragraphs.

  (2)   A statement under subsection   (1) is an assessment statement for the purposes of this Chapter.

  (3)   This section does not affect the power of a relevant assessing body to charge fees for an assessment statement under subsection   (1).

Pre - commencement assessment statement

  (4)   If, at a time before the commencement of this section:

  (a)   a person held a qualification awarded in a foreign country; and

  (b)   the qualification related to a listed professional occupation; and

  (c)   the person proposed to seek entry to that occupation in Australia; and

  (d)   a relevant assessing body for that occupation gave the person a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the body, if the person were to do any or all of the following:

  (i)   successfully undertake additional studies of a kind specified in the statement;

  (ii)   be successful in one or more examinations specified in the statement;

  (iii)   successfully undertake a tuition and training program of a kind specified in the statement;

    the person would meet the requirements for entry to that occupation in Australia;

the statement is an assessment statement for the purposes of this Chapter.

Note:   A statement could specify one of the things mentioned in subparagraph   (d)(i), (ii) or (iii) or any combination of the things mentioned in those subparagraphs.

  (5)   For the purposes of subsection   (4), assume that the first set of determinations under subsections   98Q(1) and 98S(1) had been in force at the time mentioned in subsection   (4) of this section.