Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Information) Guidelines 2013
 
 
 
I, Carol Nicoll, Chief Commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, make these Guidelines under section 204 of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.
 
 
 
 
 
Dated:  this     6th                               day of             May    2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
Signed
 
 
 
 
______________________________
CAROL NICOLL
Chief Commissioner
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
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