Bill home page
Download Word
Download PDF
8866
2019-2020
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Prohibiting Academic Cheating Services) Bill 2019
(Amendments to be moved by Senator Faruqi, on behalf of the Australian Greens, in committee of the whole)
(1) Schedule 1, item 10, page 5 (lines 23 and 24), at the end of the heading to subsection 114A(1), add “ —criminal offence ”.
[civil penalty for academic cheating services—consequential]
(2) Schedule 1, item 10, page 6 (lines 10 to 17), omit subsection 114A(3), substitute:
Providing etc. an academic cheating service for a commercial purpose—civil penalty
(3) A person contravenes this subsection if the person provides, offers to provide or arranges for a third person to provide an academic cheating service:
(a) to a student undertaking, with a higher education provider:
(i) an Australian course of study; or
(ii) an overseas course of study provided at Australian premises; and
(b) for a commercial purpose.
Civil penalty 500 penalty unit s.
[civil penalty for academic cheating services]
(3) Schedule 1, item 10, page 7 (lines 12 to 17), omit subsection 114B(2), substitute:
(2) A person contravenes this subsection if:
(a) the person advertises, or publishes or broadcasts an advertisement for, an academic cheating service to students undertaking, with a higher education provider:
(i) an Australian course of study; or
(ii) an overseas course of study provided at Australian premises; and
(b) either:
(i) the person does so for a commercial purpose; or
(ii) the academic cheating service has a commercial purpose.
Civil penalty: 500 penalty units.
[civil penalty for academic cheating services]