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To view the media release, visit the DEWR webpage .

Key changes

Some of the key changes include:

• Makes clear that the VET Regulator must have regard to all matters it considers relevant that are specified in Schedule 3 to determine if a person is fit and proper.
• Makes clear that in the application of the FPPRs, the definition of ‘person’ includes a body politic or corporate as well as an individual.
• Extends fit and proper person requirements beyond CEOs and high managerial agents to any person which exercises a degree of control or influence over the management or direction of the RTO.
• Provides more specific information that the VET Regulator can have regard to, and consideration for, in assessing a person’s compliance with the law. In particular, allows the VET Regulator to consider any situation where an offence has been found to have been committed regardless of whether a conviction was recorded.
• The inclusion of the consideration of outcomes of previous applications for registration and renewal. This is also extended to approvals as a course provider under the VSL Act; VET provider under the Higher Education Support Act and State and Territory funding arrangements for provision of education.
• Stepped out the bankruptcy and insolvency considerations.
• Expansion of considerations of provision of false and misleading information to include more than just the VET Regulator (e.g. TEQSA, TPS Director).
• Addition of the term ‘government training contract’ – a contract that a RTO has with the Commonwealth or a state or territory (or a statutory authority of a state or territory) under which it receives funding in relation to the provision by the registered training organisation of vocational education and training.

Transition Arrangements

Please note: You may be requested by ASQA to submit a new version of the Fit and Proper Person Declaration at any point of a regulatory activity.