1 Name of Guidelines

These Guidelines are the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Information) Guidelines 2013.

2 Commencement

These Guidelines commence on the date after they are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

3 Objects

(a) These Guidelines set out the Commonwealth authorities and the State or Territory authorities that the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) may disclose higher education information to under section 189 of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (TEQSA Act).

(b) These Guidelines also set out the Commonwealth authorities and the State or Territory authorities that TEQSA may disclose higher education information to under section 194 of the TEQSA Act.

4 Interpretation

In these Guidelines:

Act means the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.

Commonwealth authority has the same meaning as it has in the Act.

Higher education information has the same meaning as it has in the Act.

State or Territory authority has the same meaning as it has in the Act.

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency or TEQSA has the same meaning as in the Act.

5 Disclosing higher education information

The authorities to which TEQSA may disclose higher education information under sections 189 and 194 of the TEQSA Act can be found in Schedule A.

Schedule A

Profession-specific Commonwealth, State or Territory authorities
Item	Name of authority
1	Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Health Practice Board of Australia
2	ACT Architects Board
3	ACT Legal Practitioners Admission Board
4	ACT Surveyor-General
5	ACT Teacher Quality Institute
6	ACT Veterinary Surgeons Board
7	Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
8	Architects Board of Western Australia
9	Architects Registration Board of Victoria
10	Architectural Practice Board of South Australia
11	Board of Architects of Queensland
12	Board of Architects of Tasmania
13	Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland
14	Board of Surveying and Spatial Information of New South Wales
15	Chinese Medicine Board Of Australia
16	Chiropractic Board of Australia
17	Dental Board of Australia
18	Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia
19	Land Surveyors Licensing Board of Western Australia
20	Legal Practice Board of Western Australia
21	Medical Board of Australia
22	Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia
23	New South Wales Institute of Teachers
24	NSW Architects Registration Board
25	NSW Building Professionals Board
26	NSW Legal Profession Admission Board
27	NSW Legal Qualifications Committee
28	NT Architects Board
29	NT Legal Practitioners Admission Board
30	Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
31	Occupational Therapy Board of Australia
32	Optometry Board of Australia
33	Osteopathy Board of Australia
34	Pharmacy Board of Australia
35	Physiotherapy Board of Australia
36	Podiatry Board of Australia
37	Professional Standards Board for Patents and Trade Mark Attorneys
38	Psychology Board of Australia
39	QLD Legal Practitioners Admission Board
40	Queensland College of Teachers
41	SA Legal Practitioners Education and Admission Council
42	Survey Advisory Committee of South Australia
43	Surveyor General of Tasmania
44	Surveyors Board of the Northern Territory
45	Surveyors Board of Queensland
46	Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria
47	TAS Board of Legal Education
48	Tax Practitioners Board
49	Teachers Registration Board of Tasmania
50	Teachers Registration Board of South Australia
51	Teacher Registration Board of the Northern Territory
52	Valuers' Registration Board
53	Veterinary Board of Tasmania
54	Veterinary Board of the Northern Territory
55	Veterinary Practitioners Board of NSW
56	Veterinary Practitioners Registration Board of Victoria
57	Veterinary Surgeons Board of Queensland
58	Veterinary Surgeons Board of South Australia
59	Victorian Council of Legal Education and Board of Examiners
60	Victorian Institute of Teaching
61	WA Veterinary Surgeons’ Board
62	Western Australian College of Teaching

Commonwealth, State or Territory authorities with a broader public interest remit
Item	Name of authority
63	ACT Education and Training Directorate
64	ACT Ombudsman
65	Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
66	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
67	Australian Prudential regulation Authority
68	Australian Securities and Investment Commission
69	Australian Skills Quality Authority
70	Australian Tax Office
71	Commonwealth Ombudsman
72	Higher Education Standards Panel
73	Northern Territory Department of Education
74	Northern Territory Ombudsman
75	NSW Department of Education and Communities
76	NSW Ombudsman
77	Ombudsman South Australia
78	Ombudsman Western Australia
79	Ombudsman Tasmania
80	Overseas Students Ombudsman
81	QLD Department of Education, Training and Employment
82	QLD Ombudsman
83	SA Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology
84	The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
85	The Department of Education Tasmania
86	The Department of Immigration and Citizenship
87	The Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
88	Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
89	Victorian Ombudsman
90	WA Department of Education Services