Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019
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Number 32 of 2019 | ||
QUALIFICATIONS AND QUALITY ASSURANCE (EDUCATION AND TRAINING) (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019 | ||
CONTENTS | ||
Preliminary and General | ||
Section | ||
Amendment of Principal Act | ||
4. Amendment of section 9 of Principal Act (Functions of Authority) | ||
5. Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act (Co-operation with Authority) | ||
6. Amendment of Principal Act - furnishing of information to other bodies | ||
7. Amendment of section 27 of Principal Act (Quality assurance) | ||
13. Amendment of section 42 of Principal Act (Quality reviews by Authority) | ||
14. Amendment of section 43 of Principal Act (Framework of qualifications) | ||
15. New section 43A of Principal Act - offence to provide or advertise cheating services | ||
18. Amendment of section 47 of Principal Act (Withdrawal of programme validation) | ||
20. Amendment of section 50 of Principal Act (Making of an award) | ||
26. Amendment of section 61 of Principal Act (International education mark) | ||
28. Amendment of section 64 of Principal Act (Interpretation) | ||
30. New section 66 of Principal Act (Protection of Enrolled Learners Fund) | ||
31. Payment of annual charges into Learner Protection Fund and related matters | ||
Miscellaneous | ||
38. Construction of references in other enactments to awards recognised within Framework | ||
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Acts Referred to | ||
Central Bank Act 1971 (No. 24) | ||
Companies Act 2014 (No. 38) | ||
Data Protection Act 2018 (No. 7) | ||
Education Act 1998 (No. 51) | ||
Higher Education Authority Act 1971 (No. 22) | ||
Institutes of Technology Act 2006 (No. 25) | ||
Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 (No. 28) | ||
Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992 (No. 16) | ||
Universities Act 1997 (No. 24) | ||
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Number 32 of 2019 | ||
QUALIFICATIONS AND QUALITY ASSURANCE (EDUCATION AND TRAINING) (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019 | ||
An Act to amend and extend the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 ; for that purpose to make fresh provision concerning the means by which an award’s status, with reference to the National Framework of Qualifications, may be established and, to that end, to provide for the establishment of a category of awarding bodies, exclusive of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance Authority of Ireland or certain other persons, which shall be known as “listed awarding bodies”; to provide, as a condition precedent for provisions of that Act to be invoked by providers falling within a certain category (or intending such providers), for a requirement that criteria specified in regulations, to be made by the Minister for Education and Skills, must be met, including criteria for the purpose of affording a reasonable assurance to the foregoing Authority that a foregoing provider has the capacity and capability to provide programmes of education and training consistent with the requirements of that Act; to provide for the establishment of a fund which shall be known as “Protection of Enrolled Learners Fund”, into which an annual charge by certain providers must be paid and from which moneys may, in cases of default in delivery of certain programmes, be paid so to enable enrolled learners complete the programme concerned or so as to be used for certain other purposes; to make further provision regarding authorisation to use the international education mark; to add to the cases in which a provider may be authorised to describe itself as a “university” and, for that purpose, to amend the Universities Act 1997 ; and to provide for related matters. | ||
[23rd July, 2019] | ||
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: |
