Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00046:section:189
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00046
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 189
Character Range: 216674–218186

189  Disclosing information about breaches of regulatory requirements
 (1) TEQSA may disclose the kinds of higher education information referred to in subsection (2) to:
 (a) a person who holds any office or appointment under a law of the Commonwealth, or under a law of a State or Territory; or
 (b) a member, or special member, of the Australian Federal Police (within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979); or
 (c) a member of the police force, or police service, of a State or Territory; or
 (d) an employee:
 (i) of a Commonwealth authority or of a State or Territory authority; and
 (ii) of a kind specified in the Information Guidelines for the purposes of this section; or
 (e) in the case of a registered provider (within the meaning of the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000)—the TPS Director, within the meaning of that Act; or
 (f) a regulatory authority of another country that has responsibility relating to the quality or regulation of higher education.
 (2) The kinds of higher education information are as follows:
 (a) information that relates to an offence, or possible offence, against this Act, this Act's associated provisions or the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000;
 (b) information that relates to a contravention, or possible contravention, of:
 (i) this Act; or
 (ii) the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000; or
 (iii) the Higher Education Support Act 2003; or
 (iv) legislative instruments made under any of those Acts.