98ADefinitions

98A Definitions

(1) In this Chapter, unless the contrary intention appears:

appropriate officer of an institution means:

(a) a person who is an appropriate officer of the institution for the purposes of Chapter 4; or
(b) if the institution is an eligible private institution—a person, or a person included in a class of persons, appointed by the chief executive officer of the institution or the chief executive officer’s delegate to be an appropriate officer of the institution for the purposes of this Chapter.

eligible post‑graduate course of study at an institution means a course of study at the institution that:

(a) is a post‑graduate course for which fees may be charged; and
(b) is not a post‑graduate research award course of study; and
(c) if the institution is a non‑self accrediting private institution:
(i) is a course that is accredited by a State or Territory accreditation agency listed in the Australian Qualifications Framework Register of Bodies with Authority to Issue Qualifications; and
(ii) is a course which the Minister is satisfied meets the criteria in place in the National Protocol for the Accreditation of Higher Education Courses to be offered by non‑self accrediting providers, based on the advice of the State or Territory accreditation agency listed in the Australian Qualifications Framework Register of Bodies with Authority to Issue Qualifications.
For the purposes of paragraph (c), a part of an agency is taken to be an agency in its own right.

eligible private institution has the meaning given by section 98AA.

eligible student, for a semester, has the meaning given by section 98B.

institution means:

(a) an institution referred to in section 4; or
(b) an eligible private institution.

National Protocols means the National Protocols for Higher Education Approval Processes (first endorsed by the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs on 31 March 2000), as in force from time to time.

non‑self accrediting private institution is an eligible private institution which appears in column 2 of the table in subsection 98AA(1).

semester means a semester in a year to which this Chapter applies, and has a meaning affected by subsection (3).

student means:

(a) a person who proposes to undertake on or after 1 January 2002, or is undertaking or has undertaken on or after that date, an eligible post‑graduate course of study at an institution (other than an eligible private institution); and
(b) when used in relation to a particular eligible post‑graduate course of study at an institution (other than an eligible private institution)—a person who proposes to undertake on or after 1 January 2002, or is undertaking or has undertaken on or after that date, the eligible post‑graduate course of study at that institution; and
(c) a person who proposes to undertake on or after 1 January 2003, or is undertaking or has undertaken on or after that date, an eligible post‑graduate course of study at an eligible private institution; and
(d) when used in relation to a particular eligible post‑graduate course of study at an eligible private institution—a person who proposes to undertake on or after 1 January 2003, or is undertaking or has undertaken on or after that date, the eligible post‑graduate course of study at that institution.