Australian Education Amendment (2018 Measures No. 2) Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 11 October 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Dan Tehan

Minister for Education

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Education Regulation 2013

1  Name

  This instrument is the Australian Education Amendment (2018 Measures No. 2) Regulations 2018.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Australian Education Act 2013.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Education Regulation 2013

1  Subsection 21(2)

Repeal the subsection.

2  Subsection 52(1)

Omit “to 58A”, substitute “to 58B”.

3  After subsection 52(3B)

Insert:

 (3C) Information mentioned in section 58B must be given:

 (a) to the Department; and

 (b) by the day determined by the Minister; and

 (c) in the way determined by the Minister.

4  At the end of Subdivision F of Division 3 of Part 5

Add:

58B  Required information—information about students at certain schools

 (1) The information in subsection (2) must be provided, as mentioned in section 52, in relation to each student at a school unless:

 (a) the school is:

 (i) a government school; or

 (ii) a special school; or

 (iii) a special assistance school; or

 (iv) a school that is a majority Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school for a year; or

 (v) a sole provider school; or

 (b) the student is a distance education student.

 (2) The information is:

 (a) the name and residential address of each person responsible for the student; and

 (b) whether the student is a primary student or secondary student; and

 (c) whether the student boards at the school; and

 (d) any other information determined by the Minister, by legislative instrument, for the purposes of this paragraph.

 (3) If the school has more than one location, the information must be provided for each location of the school.