Queensland Subordinate Legislation as Made Queensland Subordinate Legislation as Made(1) This section applies if—
(a) a student account is opened for a person; and
(b) the authority has been notified, under section 51(3) of the Act, that the person has been issued with, or become eligible for the issue of, a qualification issued or to be issued in a foreign country, other than an equivalent qualification.
(2) The authority must, within 28 days after the relevant day, decide under section 87 whether the qualification is equivalent to the QCE.
(3) If the authority decides the qualification is equivalent to the QCE, the authority must give the person an information notice about the decision.
(4) If the authority decides the qualification is not equivalent to the QCE, the authority must give the person notice of the decision.
(5) If the authority does not decide whether the qualification is equivalent to the QCE within 28 days after the relevant day, the authority—
(a) is taken to have decided that the qualification is not equivalent to the QCE; and
(b) must give the person notice of the decision.
(6) If the authority decides the qualification is not equivalent to the QCE, the person can not become ineligible for the issue of a QCE only because the qualification later becomes an equivalent qualification.
(7) Subsection (6) applies despite section 85(1)(d).
(8) In this section—
relevant day means—
(a) the day the authority received the information mentioned in subsection (1)(b); or
(b) if the authority gives the person a notice under section 86(2)—the last day of the 28-day period under the notice or, if the period is extended under section 86(4), the day to which the period is extended.