Higher Education Support Act 2003

Chapter 4 - Repayment of loans  

PART 4-1 - INDEBTEDNESS  

Division 142 - Special measures for location-preferred HELP debtors - teachers  

SECTION 142-20  

142-20   Refunding amounts  

If:

(a) the *Secretary has determined, for the purposes of section 142-15 , that a person ' s *accumulated HELP debt is to be reduced by an amount; and

(b) the amount exceeds the sum of:

(i) the amount required to discharge the total debt that the person owed to the Commonwealth under this Chapter; and

(ii) the total amount of the person ' s primary tax debts (within the meaning of Part IIB of the Taxation Administration Act 1953 );

the Commonwealth must refund to the person an amount equal to that excess.