Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) An accelerator program course is a structured and integrated program of education and mentoring that:
(a) is designed to develop a person's skills, capabilities and connections for the purposes of startup businesses; and
(b) meets the requirements in subsection (2).
(2) The requirements are that:
(a) the course leads to the award of a qualification accredited by the higher education provider under subsection (3); and
(b) the course has an * EFTSL value of at least 0.5 EFTSL and no more than one EFTSL; and
(c) any other requirements set out in the STARTUP - HELP Guidelines are met.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), a higher education provider may self - accredit a qualification as being integral to the development of startup businesses, if the provider is:
(a) registered under the * TEQSA Act in the provider category "Australian University" or "University College"; and
(b) authorised under that Act to self - accredit some or all of its courses of study.
(4) In self - accrediting the qualification, the higher education provider must, as far as practicable, apply the same procedures it applies when self - accrediting a * course of study.
(5) Without limiting the matters that may be included in the STARTUP - HELP Guidelines made for the purposes of paragraph (2)(c), those guidelines must require that the higher education provider providing the * accelerator program course has arrangements in place to ensure that, in circumstances where a student creates intellectual property through undertaking the course, the student owns the intellectual property unless there is an agreement that provides otherwise in place between the student and the provider.