Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) (Consequential Amendments) Act 2025

No. 35, 2025

An Act to deal with consequential matters arising from the enactment of the Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) Act 2025, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 2

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 3

Schedule 1—Amendments 4

Higher Education Support Act 2003 4

Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) (Consequential Amendments) Act 2025

No. 35, 2025

An Act to deal with consequential matters arising from the enactment of the Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) Act 2025, and for related purposes

[Assented to 28 August 2025]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act is the Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) (Consequential Amendments) Act 2025.
2 Commencement 1

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information Commencement information Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provisions Commencement Date/Details
1. The whole of this Act The later of: (a) the start of the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent; and (b) the commencement of the Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) Act 2025. However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur. 29 August 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 2

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Amendments

Higher Education Support Act 2003

 1 At the end of Subdivision 19-C

Add:

 19-20 Certain providers must comply with the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence 1

(1) A higher education provider that is a higher education provider within the meaning of the Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) Act 2025 must comply with the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence made under that Act.

 2

This section begins to apply to a higher education provider:

 a

if the provider is a Table A provider or a Table B provider—on 1 January 2026; or

 b

otherwise—on 1 January 2027.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 23 July 2025

House of Representatives on 25 August 2025]

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