Southern Cross University Compliance Register
This Register lists the compliance drivers (Commonwealth, State and international laws and other statutory instruments, and industry, community and ethical standards and codes) that impact on the University’s activities and operations, to the extent that the University has some obligation of compliance or accountability.
The currently documented drivers are listed below in alpha-order by title. Click on the title to access a detailed overview. You can also search the register to find all of the compliance drivers and obligations relevant to your activities and the people who can help with your compliance responsibilities.
- Taxation legislation (Cth) - Tier 2Various legislation relating to taxation regimes
- Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (Cth) - Tier 3This legislation requires the University to retain data relating to user access to its telecommunications services unless it falls within an exemption.
- Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth) - Tier 2This Act regulates the activities of participates in the telecommunications industry.
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (Cth) - Tier 1 The objects of this Act are:
(a) to provide for national consistency in the regulation of higher education
(b) to regulate higher education
(c) to encourage and promote a higher education system that is appropriate to meet Australia’s social and economic needs for a highly educated and skilled population
(d) to protect students undertaking, or proposing to undertake, higher education in Australia by requiring the provision of quality higher education
(e) to ensure students undertaking, or proposing to undertake, higher education, have access to information relating to higher education in Australia. - Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth) - Tier 3This Act provides for the establishment and maintenance of a national system of controls relating to the quality, safety, timely availability and, where necessary, efficacy, of therapeutic goods.
- Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act 1998 (Qld) - Tier 3This Act provides for non-smoking areas in Qld.
- Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) - Tier 2This Act provides for the registration of trade marks, collective trade marks, certification trade marks and defensive trade marks and sets out and protects the rights deriving from registration.
- Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1979 (Qld) - Tier 3This Act makes provision for and in relation to the removal of human tissues for transplantation and other medical and scientific purposes, for post-mortem examinations, for the definition of death, for the regulation of schools of anatomy.
- Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) - Tier 3This Act sets out the law relating to trustees and trust property