Education Legislation Amendment (Startup Year and Other Measures) Act 2023 (36 of 2023)

Schedule 1   Startup year

Part 1   STARTUP-HELP assistance

Higher Education Support Act 2003

36   After section 169-15

Insert:

169-16 Charging accelerator program course fees

(1) A higher education provider:

(a) must require any *domestic student who is enrolling in an *accelerator program course with the provider to pay to the provider the student's *accelerator program course fee for the course; and

(b) must not require any domestic student to pay any other *fee for the course.

(2) However, a higher education provider must repay to a person any payment of the person's *accelerator program course fee for an *accelerator program course that the person made on or before the *census date for the course if the person is no longer enrolled in the course at the end of the census date.

Note: Other provisions about accelerator program course fees are set out in Subdivision 19-F and Part 3-7.