Higher Education Provider Approval (No. 1 of 2009)

INSTRUMENT OF APPROVAL

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Higher Education Support Act 2003

Higher Education Provider Approval (No 1 of 2009)

Approval pursuant to section 16-25 and notice of approval pursuant to paragraph 16-50(1)(b).

I, FIONA BUFFINTON, a delegate of the Minister for Education for the purposes of section 16-25 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 ('the HESA') have approved the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors Pty Ltd as the trustee for the AIPC Trust Qld as a higher education provider under that section of the HESA, and:

note that the application of the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors Pty Ltd as the trustee for the AIPC Trust Qld for approval as a higher education provider has thereby been decided as required by paragraph 16-50(1)(a) of the HESA; and

pursuant to paragraph 16-50(1)(b) of the HESA give notice of my approval to the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors Pty Ltd as the trustee for the AIPC Trust Qld.

In accordance with section 16-55 of the HESA and subsection 12(3) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, this notice of approval takes effect on the day after the last day on which a House of Parliament could have passed a resolution disallowing it.

Dated this 12th day of March 2009

(Signed)

FIONA BUFFINTON

Group Manager, Higher Education Group

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations