Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00006:reg:20:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00006
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 20 (pt 1/7)
Character Range: 17833–20675

20                    Application for internal review of a decision made by a delegate of TEQSA – s 184 of the Act and s 169AD of the ESOS Act                                                            $1,000

Schedule B - Other matters relating to the payment of fees

    Part 1 – application provision – fees for substantive assessments

    1           Fees for substantive assessments

    (1)           Subject to subsection (2), where, prior to 1 January 2023, a regulated entity makes an application under section 18 or section 46 of the Act, the relevant fee under section 20 or section 48 of the Act respectively for the substantive assessment of the application will be the fee payable under the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Determination of Fees No. 1 of 2020 as it applied prior to the commencement of this instrument.

    (2)           Where prior to 1 January 2023, an application is made under section 46 of the Act in relation to an undergraduate certificate and, the fee for the substantive assessment of the application has not been paid prior to 1 January 2023, the relevant fee under section 48 of the Act for the substantive assessment of the application will be the fee set out in item 15 of the table in Schedule A.

    Part 2 – Course Accreditation Discounts

    2           Discounts based on provider's equivalent full-time student load

    (1)           Where, on or after 1 January 2023

       (a)    a provider makes an application to have a course of study accredited, or to have the accreditation of a course of study renewed; and

       (b)   the provider's equivalent full-time student load is less than 5,000 students,

    the following discounts to the fees set out in items 10, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 17 of the table in Schedule A apply in relation to the application:

Provider's equivalent full-time student load                  Percentage discount

A number equal to or greater than 0 but less than 500         Seventy percent reduction

A number equal to or greater than 500 but less than 1000      Sixty percent reduction

A number equal to or greater than 1,000 but less than 1,500   Fifty percent reduction

A number equal to or greater than 1,500 but less than 2000    Forty percent reduction

A number equal to or greater than 2,000 but less than 3,000   Thirty percent reduction

A number equal to or greater than 3,000 but less than 4000    Twenty percent reduction

A number equal to or greater than 4,000 but less than 5000    Ten percent reduction

    (2)           In this section

       (a)    full‑time study load, for a student undertaking a course of study with a registered higher education provider for a year, means:

            (i)      if section 169‑28 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 applies to the provider in respect of the course—an