Western Australian Consolidated Acts

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING ACT 1996 - SECT 58E

58E .         Council may cancel certain qualifications

        (1)         The Council may cancel an approved VET qualification or a prescribed VET qualification conferred by a registered training provider if the Council is satisfied that it was conferred —

            (a)         by mistake or on the basis of false or misleading information; or

            (b)         in contravention of this Act.

        (2)         The Council must not cancel an approved VET qualification or a prescribed VET qualification unless the Council —

            (a)         has given the person who conferred the qualification and the person who received it written notice of —

                  (i)         the Council’s intention to cancel it; and

                  (ii)         their entitlement to make representations to the Council about the matter;

                and

            (b)         has afforded those persons a reasonable opportunity to make representations to the Council about the matter; and

            (c)         has considered any representations made to the Council by those persons within the time allowed by the Council for doing so.

        (3)         To cancel an approved VET qualification or a prescribed VET qualification, the Council must give written notice of the cancellation to the person who conferred the qualification and the person who received it.

        [Section 58E inserted by No. 44 of 2008 s. 38.]