Higher Education Support Act 2003

S 96-10 inserted by No 93 of 2020, s 3 and Sch 4 item 22, applicable in relation to any unit of study in respect of which a student becomes liable, on or after 1 January 2021, to pay a student contribution amount (whether the unit of study is part of a course of study commenced before, on or after that day).

Former s 96-10 repealed by No 169 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 3 item 5, applicable in relation to an up-front payment made in relation to a unit of study that has a census date on or after 1 January 2017. S 96-10 formerly read:

SECTION 96-10 Payments to higher education providers-full up-front payment of student contribution amount  
96-10
If:

(a) a student is entitled to an amount of *HECS-HELP assistance for a unit of study with a higher education provider; and

(b) one or more *up-front payments have been made for the unit; and

(c) the sum of all of the up-front payments made for all of the student ' s units of study:

(i) that have the same *census date as that unit; and

(ii) in relation to which the student is enrolled as a *Commonwealth supported student;

is 90% of the sum of the student ' s *student contribution amounts for all of his or her units;

the Commonwealth must, as a benefit to the student, pay to the provider the amount of HECS-HELP assistance for the unit in discharge of that amount of the student ' s liability to pay his or her student contribution amount for the unit.

Note:

HECS-HELP assistance does not give rise to a HECS-HELP debt if there has been an up-front payment of 90% of a student ' s student contribution amount for the unit and for the student ' s other units with the same census date.

Former s 96-10 amended by No 178 of 2011, s 3 and Sch 2 items 9 and 10, by substituting " 90% " for " 80% " in para (c) and note, applicable in relation to units of study whose census dates are on or after 1 January 2012.