HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ACT 1988

CHAPTER 5 - OPEN LEARNING DEFERRED PAYMENT SCHEME  

PART 5.2 - CHARGES  

Division 1 - Payment of basic charges  

SECTION 105   ELIGIBLE CLIENT MAY JOIN DEFERRED PAYMENT SCHEME  

105(1)    
An eligible client of the Agency may, at any time, choose to participate in the deferred payment scheme by complying with subsections (2) and (3).

105(2)    
The eligible client must sign, and give to an appropriate officer, a document in the approved form:

(a) stating that the client asks the Commonwealth, in the event that on the census date for any study period the client:

(i) is an eligible client of the Agency; and

(ii) is enrolled to undertake in the study period units of study for the purposes of an approved course of study; and

(iii) has not paid the basic charges in respect of those units of study or, if the enrolment for the study period is in respect of a number of units of study that exceeds the client's standard study load for the study period, has not paid the basic charges in respect of the number of units of study included in that standard study load;

to lend to the client the amount of the charges and use the amount so lent to pay the charges on behalf of the client; and

(b) acknowledging that, if the Commonwealth complies with the request, the client will be liable to make payments under Chapter 5A .

105(3)    
The client must at the same time give to an appropriate officer:

(a) a notice specifying a number that the Agency is satisfied (in accordance with guidelines issued by the Commissioner) is the tax file number issued by the Commissioner to the client; or

(b) a certificate in a form approved by the Commissioner stating that the client has applied to the Commissioner asking the Commissioner to issue a tax file number to the client.