12Student identifier requirements

12 Student identifier requirements

An NVR registered training organisation must:

not include any individual’s student identifier on a VET qualification or VET statement of attainment; and
request the Registrar to verify that any student identifier provided to it by an individual belongs to that individual before the organisation uses the identifier for any purpose.

Subject to subsections (3) and (5), an NVR registered training organisation must not issue a VET qualification or a VET statement of attainment to a VET student unless the student has been assigned a student identifier.

Exemptions given by the Minister

The Minister may, in writing and as agreed by the Ministerial Council, specify an issue to which the requirement in subsection (2) does not apply, by reference to one or more of the following:

the organisation doing the issuing;
the VET qualification, or VET statement of attainment, being issued; or
the VET student to whom the VET qualification, or VET statement of attainment, is being issued.

Where an exemption described in subsection (3) or subsection 53(3) of the Student Identifiers Act 2014 applies – an NVR registered training organisation must inform the VET student prior to the completion of enrolment or commencement of training and assessment, whichever occurs first, that the results of the training:

will not be accessible through the Commonwealth; and
will not appear on any authenticated VET transcript prepared by the Registrar.

Subsections (2) and (3) only apply to NVR registered training organisations that are not constitutional corporations.

Note: Similar requirements to those set out in subsections (2) and (3), that apply to NVR registered training organisations that are constitutional corporations, are set out in section 53 of the Student Identifiers Act 2014.