IMPORTANT: Please read the LEGAL NOTICE at the end of HPAT-Ireland Information Booklet 2027(“the Booklet”).

By registering to sit the HPAT-Ireland the candidate ("You") are entering a binding legal agreement between You and The Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd (ABN 19 004 398 145) (“ACER”) covering Your registration for the

  • HPAT-Ireland;
  • and all associated administrative and other consequent activities regarding the HPAT-Ireland

whether provided digitally in a HPAT-Ireland testing centre or from another location by remote proctoring in 2027.

The legal agreement consists of, together;

  1. the Booklet, including its Legal Notice;
  2. any ACER instructions issued from time-to-time regulating test takers’ sitting of the HPAT-Ireland;
  3. test day instructions issued by ACER engaged personnel; and
  4. this declaration.

(“the Legal Agreement”)

Ensure You understand fully and are familiar with the contents of the Legal Agreement before You complete Your registration for the HPAT-IRELAND as it details important conditions in respect of Your participation in the HPAT-Ireland.

Nothing in this declaration or the Legal Agreement excludes, restricts or limits any rights or remedies You may have under applicable consumer protection legislation, including the Consumer Rights Act 2022 (Ireland), or any other rights that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or limited.

NOTE: the terms of the Legal Agreement may vary from sitting to sitting of HPAT-Ireland and, therefore, You should re-familiarise with each part of the Legal Agreement detailed above before each sitting of HPAT- Ireland. You should not assume that the terms and conditions applicable to a previous sitting are the same in every respect as those which are set out in the Legal Agreement.

The declarations below signify You AGREE:

  1. You have read and agree to the Legal Agreement governing Your registration for and participation in HPAT-Ireland in 2027;
  2. if a HPAT-Ireland sitting is compromised, disrupted, postponed, rescheduled, modified or cancelled due to circumstances beyond ACER’s reasonable control, ACER may, acting reasonably and in good faith, require You to undertake reasonable alternative arrangements, including a re-sit, rescheduled sitting, alternative testing venue or alternative remote proctored session, where ACER reasonably considers this necessary to protect the integrity, security, fairness or proper administration of HPAT-Ireland ACER will endeavour to provide affected candidates with reasonable notice of any alternative arrangements where practicable;
  3. where necessary for logistical, security, fairness or operational reasons, ACER may allocate you a date, time, testing venue or remote proctored session, subject to availability, and You may not be able to choose Your preferred date, time, venue or session;
  4. You will comply with any reasonable direction, guideline or policy issued by ACER concerning the administration of HPAT-Ireland, including any applicable public health, safety, security or test integrity requirements;
  5. to the best of Your knowledge, to sit HPAT-Ireland in 2027 You are a bona fide prospective applicant to a course for which HPAT-Ireland is a pre-requisite and You meet the eligibility requirements set out in the Booklet;
  6. you meet the requirements for eligibility set out in the HPAT-Ireland Information Booklet 2027;
  7. You will not use, disclose, reproduce, publish, post, transmit or otherwise make available to any person any HPAT-Ireland test questions, prompts, answers, content or information about the test, except for the purpose of personally sitting HPAT-Ireland in accordance with the Legal Agreement;
  8. the information You give in Your application for registration for the HPAT-Ireland in 2027 is true and correct. The giving of false or misleading information constitutes misconduct, which may result in permanent disqualification from undertaking HPAT-Ireland in the future, and may jeopardise Your chances of being admitted into any course for which HPAT-Ireland is a pre-requisite;
  9. You are the person whose name and address appears on this registration and
  10. if You complete the Written English component, ACER may submit Your written responses to a plagiarism, originality and/or AI-use checking service provider, currently Copyleaks, for the purposes of detecting plagiarism, unauthorised assistance, inappropriate use of artificial intelligence or other misconduct, as further described in the Booklet and Privacy Statement