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Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2021

I, Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, make these Standards under subsection 188(1) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011.

Dated    11       /    03      / 2021

Michaelia Cash
Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business

Contents
Part 1 Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Repeals
5 Transitional and application provisions
6 Definitions
Part 2 Introduction and purpose
7 Introduction
8 Purpose of the Standards
Part 3 Course standards
9 Duplication
10 Course standards
Appendix 1 Template for course documentation for accreditation

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name
  This instrument is the Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2021.

2 Commencement
  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Authority
  This instrument is made under subsection 188(1) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011.

4 Repeals
  The Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2012 are repealed.

5 Transitional and application provisions
(1)     To avoid doubt, notwithstanding the repeal of the Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2012, a course that had been accredited under section 44 of the Act, including as a result of a renewal under section 50 of the Act, prior to Commencement Day, still meets the Standards for VET Accredited Courses on the Commencement Day.
(2)     This instrument applies to an application for accreditation of a course under section 43 of the Act, an application for the renewal of accreditation under section 50 of the Act, or a decision to cancel accreditation under section 52 of the Act on and from the Commencement Day.
(3)     The Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2012 continue to apply to applications for accreditation of a course under section 43 of the Act, or an application for the renewal of accreditation under section 50 of the Act where the application was made prior to the Commencement Day.

6 Definitions
Note: Paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003 provides that, unless the contrary intention appears, expressions used in any instrument so made have the same meaning as in the enabling legislation as in force from time to time. This principle applies to the following expressions which are defined in the Act:
                (a)           Australian Qualifications Framework;
                (b)           National VET Regulator;
                (c)           non-referring State;
                (d)           registered training organisation;
                (e)           VET accredited course;
                (f)            VET statement of attainment; and
                (g)           VET qualification.
  In this instrument:
Act means the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011.
accreditation means the accreditation of a course under Part 3 of the Act.
articulation means the arrangements that facilitate the movement or progression of learners from one qualification or course to another, or from one education and training sector to another.
assessment means