20Commencement and duration of registration

#### 20 Commencement and duration of registration (1) An applicant’s registration: (a) commences: (i) if it is a renewal of registration—in accordance with paragraph 31(3B)(b); or (ii) in any other case—on the day specified in a written notice given to the applicant; and (b) subject to subsections (2) and 31(3) and paragraph 36(2)(c), expires at the end of the period determined by the National VET Regulator, unless the applicant’s registration is cancelled, lapses or is withdrawn before that time. > Note: Subsection 31(3) provides for a registration to continue in force if a decision is not made on a renewal application until after the registration would otherwise expire. Paragraph 36(2)(c) allows the National VET Regulator to shorten the period of a registration, as a sanction. (2) The National VET Regulator may, in exceptional circumstances, extend an NVR registered training organisation’s registration without the organisation needing to apply to have its registration renewed. (3) If an NVR registered training organisation’s registration is so extended, a reference in this Act to the period of an NVR registered training organisation’s registration is to be read as a reference to that period as so extended.