2004-2005

The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES



Presented and read a first time




Higher Education Legislation
Amendment (Workplace Relations
Requirements) Bill 2005
No.           , 2005
(Education, Science and Training)




A Bill for an Act to amend the Higher Education
Support Act 2003 in relation to workplace relations,
and for related purposes


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                 1        Short title.......................................................................................1
                 2        Commencement .............................................................................1
                 3        Schedule(s)....................................................................................2

Schedule 1--Amendment of the Higher Education Support Act
            2003                                                                                                           3




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2   Support Act 2003 in relation to workplace relations,
3   and for related purposes
4   The Parliament of Australia enacts:
5   1 Short title
6                This Act may be cited as the Higher Education Legislation
7                Amendment (Workplace Relations Requirements) Act 2005.

8   2 Commencement
9                This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent.




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2                Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
3                repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
4                concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
5                according to its terms.




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 2   Schedule 1--Amendment of the Higher
 3         Education Support Act 2003
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 5   1 Paragraphs 33-15(1)(b) and (c)
 6           Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:
 7                (b) the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines impose on
 8                     higher education providers requirements to be known as the
 9                     Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements; and
10                 (c) the Minister is satisfied that the provider met the
11                     requirements in paragraphs (a) and (b) as at the dates that are
12                     specified in the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines in
13                     relation to each of those requirements, in the year preceding
14                     that year.

15   2 Saving provision
16           Despite item 1 of this Schedule, subsection 33-15(1) of the Higher
17           Education Support Act 2003 as in force immediately before the
18           commencement of this Act is to be taken to continue in force, in
19           relation to a higher education provider's basic grant amount for a grant
20           year before the grant year 2006, as if that subsection had not been
21           amended.




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