Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A01049:clause:1_106zo
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A01049
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 106ZO
Character Range: 7510–8998

106ZO  Persons without accreditation not to describe themselves as universities in external Territories

 (1) A person is guilty of an offence if:
 (a) the person uses the word "university", "university college" or any like words (whether or not in combination with other words):
 (i) to identify the person in the person's operation or purported operation in an external Territory; or
 (ii) to identify the person's operation or purported operation in an external Territory; and
 (b) the person, or the person's operation or purported operation, as so identified, is not:
 (i) a listed self‑accrediting entity; or
 (ii) approved by the Minister as a self‑accrediting entity in relation to that Territory under section 106ZQ; and
 (c) the Minister has not approved the use of that word or those words:
 (i) to identify the person in the person's operation or purported operation in that external Territory; or
 (ii) to identify the person's operation or purported operation in that external Territory.

Penalty: 40 penalty units.

Note: Subsection 4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 provides that the maximum penalty appropriate to a body corporate is 5 times the maximum penalty provided for a natural person.

 (2) For the purposes of an offence against subsection (1), strict liability applies to the circumstance in subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) that the power of approval is under section 106ZQ.

Part 5C.3—Laws regulating the use of company names and business names in external Territories