HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ACT 1988

CHAPTER 5B - LIMIT ON STUDENT DEBT TO COMMONWEALTH  

Part 5B.5 - Suspension notices  

SECTION 106ZJ   Consequences of suspension notice - HECS courses  

106ZJ(1)    
This section operates if the Commissioner has given an institution a suspension notice in relation to a person.

106ZJ(2)    
The institution must:

(a) not permit the person to undertake a course of study for a semester covered by subsection (3) at the institution; and

(b) if the person applies to enrol for a course of study for a semester covered by subsection (3) at the institution - not permit the person to enrol for the course of study for the semester; and

(c) if the person has already enrolled for a course of study for a semester covered by subsection (3) at the institution - cancel the person's enrolment for the course of study for the semester.

106ZJ(3)    
Subsection (2) relates to a course of study for a semester if:

(a) the course of study is a designated course of study; and

(b) the census date for the course of study for the semester is:

(i) on or after the day specified in the suspension notice as the day on which the Commissioner gave the person a loan limit notice; and

(ii) if the loan limit notice has been cancelled by a notice under section 106ZF - before the day on which the loan limit notice was cancelled.

106ZJ(4)    
The regulations may set out procedures for the institution to notify persons who may be affected by subsection (2).

106ZJ(5)    
Subsection (2) does not apply if:

(a) the person pays to the institution the total amount of the contribution that the institution assesses will be payable by the student for the course of study for the semester; or

(b) the person is an exempt student for the course of study for the semester.