Commonwealth Numbered Acts

EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING ACT 1988 No. 80 of 1988 - SECT 3

3. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Board" means the National Board of Employment, Education and Training
established by section 6;

"Consultative Committee" means the Consultative Committee established by
section 40;

"Council" means the Schools Council, the Higher Education Council, the
Employment and Skills Formation Council or the Australian Research Council
established by section 23;

"curricula" means courses of study, and methods and procedures, for use in or
in connection with teaching or learning in schools or tertiary institutions;

"curriculum project" means a project involving:

   (a)  research in relation to, or the development of, curricula or
        educational materials; or

   (b)  the publication of educational materials;

"educational materials" means materials or equipment (including books) for use
in or in connection with teaching or learning in schools or tertiary
institutions;

"higher education institution" means an institution specified in Schedule 1;

"innovative project" means a project (not being a curriculum project) aimed at
bringing diversity or innovation, or designed to test new approaches or
techniques, in a field to which the project is relevant;

"parent body", in relation to a committee established under Part IV, means:

   (a)  if the committee has been established to assist the Board-the Board;

   (b)  if the committee has been established to assist one, or more than one,
        Council-that Council or each of those Councils; or

   (c)  if the committee has been established to assist the Board and one, or
        more than one, Council:

        (i)    the Board; and

        (ii)   that Council or each of those Councils;

"school" means:

   (a)  a school or similar institution at which full-time primary education
        or full-time secondary education, or both, is or are provided; or

   (b)  a school or similar institution at which education is provided that
        includes full-time primary education or full-time secondary education,
        or both;

"school system" means:

   (a)  an education system that provides education at schools; or

   (b)  if an education system provides education at schools and also at
        institutions other than schools, that system in so far as it relates
        to
schools; "State" includes the Northern Territory;

"State Minister" means:

   (a)  a Minister of the Crown of a State other than the Northern Territory;
        or

   (b)  a person holding ministerial office under section 36 of the Northern
        Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978;

"technical and further education" means education provided by way of a course
of instruction or training that is, or that is preparatory to, a course of a
kind relevant to a trade, technical or other skilled occupation or that
otherwise meets educational needs, other than:

   (a)  education provided at a higher education institution, not being
        education provided by way of a course declared by the Minister, in
        writing, to be a course of technical and further education; or

   (b)  primary or secondary education provided by way of a full-time course
        in a school;

"technical and further education institution" means:

   (a)  any institution (other than a higher education institution or a
        school) that provides technical and further education, being:

        (i)    an institution in a State conducted by or on behalf of the
               government of the State; or

        (ii)   an institution in a Territory (other than an institution
               declared by the Minister, in writing, not to be an institution
               to which this subparagraph applies) conducted by or on behalf
               of the government of the Commonwealth; or

   (b)  an institution, proposed institution, body, authority or
        instrumentality that, by virtue of a declaration under section 5, is a
        technical and further education institution for the purposes of this
        Act;

"Territory" does not include:

   (a)  the Northern Territory; or

   (b)  any external Territory other than a prescribed external Territory;

"tertiary institution" means:

   (a)  a higher education institution; or

   (b)  a technical and further education institution.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, a residential college or a proposed
residential college connected with a tertiary institution shall be deemed to
be part of that institution.