Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Act 2020 (93 of 2020)

Schedule 4B   Student learning entitlement

Higher Education Support Act 2003

4   After section 36-24B

Insert:

36-24BA Providers to repay amounts - person's SLE amount re-credited in special circumstances

(1) This section applies if:

(a) a person has been enrolled as a *Commonwealth supported student with a higher education provider in a unit of study; and

(b) the person's *SLE amount has been re-credited under section 79-1 with an amount equal to the *EFTSL value of the unit.

(2) The provider must:

(a) pay to the person an amount equal to the payment, or the sum of the payments, that the person made in relation to the person's *student contribution amount for the unit; and

(b) pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to any *HECS-HELP assistance to which the person was entitled for the unit.