ARITA and Continuing Professional Education (CPE)

At ARITA, Professional Members are required to calculate their CPE over a three-year period. This ensures that those needing to take career breaks can do so without threatening their membership requirements. 

As detailed in the ARITA Regulations, all Professional Members are required to undertake 30 hours of verifiable CPE per triennium and a total of 120 hours of both verifiable and non-verifiable CPE over the three years.

Your regulatory requirements

If you’re a registered liquidator or registered trustee, you will also need to be aware of the CPE guidance that has been developed by AFSA and ASIC.

• Registered liquidator guidance
• Registered trustee guidance
  
  

Law society requirements

If you’re a lawyer, please ensure you check your CPE/CPD requirements with the applicable law society.

• Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory
• Law Society of NSW
• Law Institute Victoria 
• Law Society of Tasmania
• Queensland Law Society
• Legal Practice Board of Western Australia
• The Law Society of South Australia 
• Law Society of the Northern Territory 

What is verifiable and non-verifiable CPE?

In the ARITA Regulations, Verifiable CPE is defined as education that meets all four of the following requirements:

1. the learning activity was relevant to the member's current or future career
2. was a structured learning activity in which there were clear learning objectives or outcomes when attending or completing the activity
3. the learning activity assisted in the development of their professional competency
4. they are able to provide proof of attendance or participation in the activity.

Non-verifiable CPE is defined as being typically the reading of, watching or listening to subjects which are relevant to your career. 

Verifiable and non-verifiable CPE could include the following:

• Expert Series
• Forums
• Essential Skills
• Professional Standards
• ARITA Advanced Certification
• Conferences
• Seminars
• Young Professional Seminars
• Introduction to Insolvency Program (IIP)
• Preparing and delivering an ARITA Course, Seminar or Forum
• Serving on the ARITA Board or on an ARITA Committee
• Writing an article for the ARITA Journal or preparing a case update which features in our Weekly eNews, Quarterly update and on our website

• Watching online Forum and Seminar recordings
• Reading ARITA weekly eNews 
• Reading ARITA Journal

Keep track of your CPE

As part of our ARITA Learning Centre, verifiable CPE activities undertaken with ARITA will be automatically recorded on your ARITA profile. (Note, you will need to calculate your own hours for activities that don’t have defined time periods, e.g. serving on a committee or Advanced Certification.)

Plus you can also input CPE activities that you’ve completed external to ARITA, allowing you to keep a record of all your CPE in one place.

Free CPE

As an exclusive member and subscriber benefit, we offer a certain number of free CPE hours every year. In 2022 we delivered a full CPE schedule, including a total of 57 events attended by over 4,300 members, gaining ARITA members and subscribers up to 7 free CPE hours.

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