New Zealand Legislation: Acts

251 Application for training scheme approval

• (1) In this section, institution includes any institution, government training establishment, registered establishment, relevant school, industry training organisation, or other body.

  (2) An institution may apply to the Authority for a grant of approval to provide a training scheme under this section.

  (3) An industry training organisation may apply jointly with an institution for a grant of approval to provide a training scheme if the scheme will be provided by the institution on behalf of the organisation.

  (4) The Authority—

  • (a) may grant or refuse to grant approval to the training scheme; and

  • (b) must give the institution and any joint applicant written notice of its decision to grant or refuse approval; and

  • (c) may grant approval without limitation as to time or for a specified period.

  (5) If the training scheme incorporates assessment standards listed on the Directory of Assessment Standards, the Authority must not grant training scheme approval until the institution has obtained consent to assess against those standards.

  (6) This section does not apply to—

  • (a) any secondary school qualification or class of secondary school qualification that the Authority exempts, by notice in the Gazette, from the application of this section:

  • (b) any workplace training component of any training scheme.

  Section 251: substituted, on 30 August 2011, by section 38 of the Education Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 66).