Student Identifiers Act 2014

The Registrar may do any of the following in order to resolve a problem that has occurred in relation to the assignment of one or more student identifiers to one or more individuals:

revoke one or more of those student identifiers;

assign a new student identifier to one or more of those individuals;

assign a schools identifier to one or more of those individuals.

If the Registrar does a thing mentioned in subsection (1) in relation to an individual, the Registrar must give written notice of the Registrar’s decision to:

the individual; and

a VET‑related body of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of that expression in subsection 4(1); and

the Secretary of, or an APS employee in, the Education Department; and

any entity that has made an application under section 13A for a schools identifier to be assigned to the individual; and

any other entity that the Registrar considers appropriate in the circumstances.

However, the Registrar is not required to give the notice under subsection (2) to the individual if:

the Registrar’s decision is to:

revoke a student identifier of the individual; or

assign a schools identifier to the individual; and

the Registrar is satisfied that an entity covered by paragraph (2)(bb) will notify the individual of:

the Registrar’s decision; and

if the decision is to revoke a student identifier of the individual—the revoked identifier; and

if the decision is to assign a schools identifier to the individual—the schools identifier.

The notice given under subsection (2) must set out:

if a student identifier of the individual has been revoked—the revoked identifier; and

if a new student identifier or a schools identifier has been assigned to the individual—that identifier.