Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L01368:reg:7:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L01368
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7 (pt 4/5)
Character Range: 18863–21797

the Regulations, an applicant must have obtained at least 1,000 individual hours experience in total as an audit team leader or a professional member of an audit team in auditing and preparing audit reports in five or more of the following kinds of audits:
(a)  the specified audits; or
(b) an audit conducted for the purpose of a scheme administered by the Clean Energy Regulator including preparation of an audit report prepared for the purpose of accompanying an application for an exemption certificate and which complies with the requirements in the REE Regulations that apply to such a report; or
(c) an audit of an offsets project recognised under the NCOS.
               Note:  Under subregulation 6.20 (2) of the Regulations, the applicant must have obtained the appropriate kind, and the appropriate period, of experience of auditing and preparing audit reports during the five years immediately preceding the day the application is made.

      (2) The audits must be equivalent to assurance engagements.
12 Auditing experience requirements for applicants for Category 2 registration—audit team leadership
      For subregulation 6.20 (2) of the Regulations, an applicant meets the requirements for audit team leadership if:
(a) The applicant has obtained at least 700 individual hours experience as an audit team leader of an audit team that has three or more other members in at least one of:
(i) the specified audits;
(ii) agreed-upon procedures relating to greenhouse and energy information carried out in accordance with ASRS 4400;
(iii) an audit of annual returns conducted for the purposes of the VEET scheme established by the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target Act 2007 (Vic);
(iv) an audit conducted in accordance with:
                (A) AS/NZS ISO 19011:2014; or
                (B) ISO 19011:2018; or

(b) The applicant has obtained at least 700 individual hours experience as a Supervisor. For the purpose of this subsection, the Clean Energy Regulator may recognise an applicant's experience as a Supervisor where

            (i) the applicant has been a Supervisor of:

                 1. an audit team for more than one Part 6 audit or alternative audit, and

                2. an audit team consisting of three or more other members, and

                3. an audit led by a registered Category 2 audit team leader, and

            (ii) the Category 2 audit team leader, for each audit, has provided referee reports which confirm that the applicant was the Supervisor of the audit team that conducted the audit; or

       (c)   The applicant has obtained a combined total of at least 700 individual hours experience as:

              (i)                 an audit team leader of an audit team that has three or more other members in at least one of the kinds of audits listed under paragraph (b) above; and

              (ii)               a Supervisor whose experience has been recognised by the