Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00997:reg:12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00997
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 12
Character Range: 14350–17018

12      What is academic misconduct?

(1)    A student engages in conduct that is academic misconduct if:

(a)    the student engages in conduct that breaches the academic integrity principle, including, for example, by engaging in any conduct of a kind mentioned in subsection (2); and

(b)    the conduct is in relation to:

(i)    a course or program offered by or in connection with the University; or

(ii)    research conducted in or in connection with the University; and

(c)    the conduct is not poor academic practice.

(2)    For this instrument, a student breaches the academic integrity principle if, in scholarly practice, the student:

(a)    cheats; or

(b)    impersonates another person; or

(c)    engages in plagiarism; or

(d)    colludes with another person; or

(e)    improperly shares material with another person; or

(f)    engages in contract cheating or improperly engages another person to prepare, or assist in preparing, work for the student; or

(g)    submits or publishes anything that fails to correctly or appropriately acknowledge the work of another person or otherwise improperly appropriates the intellectual property or contribution of another person; or

(h)    otherwise passes off the work of another person as the student's own work; or

(i)    improperly recycles work or otherwise improperly submits or publishes work that is not original; or

(j)    takes a prohibited item into an examination or other assessment venue or otherwise breaches the University's directions (however described) in relation to an examination or other assessment; or

(k)    fabricates or falsifies any document, data or other information, or anything else, including, for example, by intentionally omitting data to obtain a desired result, or by falsely representing observations as genuinely held; or

(l)    otherwise intentionally or recklessly engages in conduct:

(i)    that impedes the progress of research; or

(ii)    that risks corrupting research records or compromising the integrity of research practices; or

(iii)    that uses research data from another person without appropriate acknowledgement; or

(iv)    that breaches a research protocol approved by a research ethics committee or a statutory licence condition applying to research; or

(m)    otherwise engages in conduct with the intention of gaining, or assisting another person to gain, an unethical, dishonest, unfair or unjustified advantage; or

(n)    otherwise engages in conduct, or assists another person to engage in conduct, that is unethical, dishonest or unfair; or

(o)    engages in any other conduct declared to be academic misconduct by the orders.