Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (ACCREDITATION OF NON-STATE SCHOOLS) ACT 2001 - SECT 254

254 Existing application for assessment as special assistance school

(1) This section applies if—

(a) before the commencement, the governing body of a school had applied to be assessed as a special assistance school under a policy made under the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006 , section 369 ; and

(b) immediately before the commencement, the application had not been decided.

(2) The Minister must continue to decide the application under the policy as if the Education and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2014 had not been enacted.

(3) If the Minister grants the application, the school is taken to be provisionally accredited, or accredited, to provide special assistance at the site from which the school operated immediately before the commencement.

(4) The operation of subsection (3) does not, of itself—

(a) constitute a change in an attribute of provisional accreditation, or an attribute of accreditation, applying to the school; or

(b) constitute a change relating to an aspect of the school’s operation affecting the governing body’s eligibility for Government funding.