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Higher Education Support Act 2003
28Schedules of VET tuition fees
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28 Schedules of VET tuition fees
General rule
(1) A *VET provider must give the Minister a schedule of the *VET tuition fees determined under clause 27 for all the VET units of study it provides or proposes to provide, other than under *VET restricted access arrangements, during a period ascertained in accordance with the *VET Guidelines. It must give the schedule:
(a) ensure that the schedule provides sufficient information to enable a person to work out the person’s *VET tuition fee for each *VET unit of study the provider provides or is to provide; and
(b) publish the schedule for a particular period by the date ascertained in accordance with the *VET Guidelines; and
(c) ensure that the schedule is available to all students enrolled, and persons seeking to enrol, with the provider on request and without charge.
Restricted access arrangements
(2A) A *VET provider must give the Minister a schedule of the *VET tuition fees determined under clause 27 for each *VET unit of study it provides or proposes to provide under a *VET restricted access arrangement during a period ascertained in accordance with the *VET Guidelines. It must give the schedule:
(2B) The provider must:
(a) ensure that the schedule provides sufficient information to enable a person to work out the person’s *VET tuition fee for the *VET unit of study the provider provides or is to provide under the *VET restricted access arrangement; and
(b) ensure that the schedule is available, on request and without charge, to all students enrolled, or eligible to be enrolled, under the VET restricted access arrangement.
Replacement schedules
(a) the provider has given the Minister a schedule (the previous schedule) under:
(i) subclause (1) or (2A); or
(ii) this subclause; and
(b) the provider varies a *VET tuition fee in the previous schedule;
the provider must:
(c) by written notice given to the Minister:
(i) withdraw the previous schedule; and
(ii) inform the Minister of the variation; and
(d) give the Minister a replacement schedule incorporating the variation.
Note: The provider must comply with subclause 27(4) when varying a tuition fee.
(4) Subclauses (1) to (2B) apply to the replacement schedule in a corresponding way to the way in which they apply to the previous schedule.
Division 5—Revocation of VET provider approvals