Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (ACCREDITATION OF NON-STATE SCHOOLS) ACT 2001 - SECT 167

167 Notification of change in circumstances

(1) This section applies to the governing body of—

(a) a provisionally accredited school that is in operation; or

(b) an accredited school.

(2) The governing body must within 14 days after the happening of each of the following events give the board notice of the event—

(a) the closure of the school;

(b) the school stops offering a year of schooling for which it is provisionally accredited or accredited;

(c) the governing body is affected by control action under the Corporations Act;

(d) for a Government-funded school—the school starts to be operated for profit;

(e) any other change in the governing body’s, or school’s, circumstances prescribed under a regulation.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) For subsection (2) (c) , the governing body is affected by control action under the Corporations Act if the governing body—

(a) has executed a deed of company arrangement under the law; or

(b) is the subject of a winding-up (whether voluntarily or under a court order) under that Act; or

(c) is the subject of an appointment of an administrator, liquidator, receiver or receiver and manager under that Act.

(4) If the governing body is a RECI Act corporation, the governing body must, within 14 days after a person is validly nominated as a director of the governing body under section 7AA (b) (ii) , give the board a notice, signed by each declared director for the time being of the governing body, stating—

(a) the name of the nominated person; and

(b) the date of the nomination.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.