New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING ACT 2005 - SECT 5

5 Constitution of Board

(1) There is constituted by this Act a body corporate under the name of the Vocational Education and Training Accreditation Board.

(2) The Board is, for the purposes of any Act, a statutory body representing the Crown.

(3) The Board is to comprise 11 members, being:

(a) the Director, and

(b) 10 part-time members appointed by the Minister.

(4) Of the part-time members:

(a) one is to be a person nominated by the TAFE Commission Board, and

(b) one is to be a person nominated by the Director-General of the Department of Education and Training, and

(c) 3 are to be persons having such qualifications or experience in the provision or accreditation of vocational education or training as the Minister considers appropriate, and

(d) 2 are to be persons having such qualifications or experience in the provision of vocational education or training for students with special needs as the Minister considers appropriate, and

(e) 2 are to be persons having such qualifications or experience in industry, commerce or industrial relations as the Minister considers appropriate, and

(f) one is to be a person having such qualifications or experience in the provision, accreditation or evaluation of education or training for overseas students as the Minister considers appropriate.

(5) If a nomination referred to in subsection (4) (a) or (b) is not made within such time as the Minister allows, the Minister may appoint any person whom he or she considers to be suitably qualified in place of a person required to be so nominated.

(6) One of the part-time members of the Board is, by the instrument of his or her appointment as a member or by a subsequent instrument executed by the Minister, to be appointed as the Chairperson of the Board.

(7) Schedule 1 has effect with respect to the members and procedure of the Board.