General Overview of the Act Part 2 – Registration and Regulation of Tertiary Education Providers
11.Part 2 is about the registration and regulation of tertiary education providers and is divided into 4 chapters:
	Chapter 1 provides for a new system of registration of tertiary education providers (registration under Part 2 is not a legal requirement for the provision of tertiary education in itself; registration is linked to the Commission’s powers under Part 3 to fund tertiary education (see the explanation of Part 3 below));
	Chapter 2 makes provision for quality assurance of publicly funded tertiary education (registered and unregistered) through monitoring, assessment and inspection;
	Chapter 3 makes provision for intervention in further education institutions (unrelated to the registration system established by Chapter 1) and procedures for the exercise of all enforcement functions under Part 2;
	Chapter 4 makes general provision relevant to the Part.