Assessment statements
22 Assessment statements
A written statement that an assessing body for a listed professional occupation gave to a person, at a time before the commencement of the new Act, is taken to be an assessment statement for the purposes of the new Act if:
the person held a qualification awarded in a foreign country; and
the qualification related to that occupation; and
the person proposed to seek entry to that occupation:
in Australia; or
if the assessing body was an assessing body of a State or Territory-in that State or Territory; and
the body gave the person a written statement to the effect that, in the body's opinion, if the person were to do any or all of the following:
successfully undertake additional studies of a kind specified in the statement;
be successful in one or more examinations specified in the statement;
successfully undertake a tuition and training program of a kind specified in the statement;
the person would meet the requirements for entry to that occupation.
A statement could specify one of the things mentioned in subparagraph (d)(i), (ii) or (iii) or any combination of the things mentioned in those subparagraphs.
In this item:
assessing body includes a person or body that, immediately before the commencement of the new Act, was an assessing body for the purposes of Chapter 4B of the old Act.
listed professional occupation includes an occupation that, immediately before that commencement, was a listed professional occupation for the purposes of that Chapter.
occupation includes a part of an occupation that, immediately before that commencement, was an occupation for the purposes of that Chapter.
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