Higher Education Support Act 2003

Chapter 3 - Assistance to students  

PART 3-7 - STARTUP HELP ASSISTANCE  

Division 128B - Who is entitled to STARTUP HELP assistance?  

SECTION 128B-40   Allocation of STARTUP-HELP assistance  

128B-40(1)    
The STARTUP-HELP Guidelines must include principles and procedures for ensuring, so far as reasonably practicable, that at least 25% of the persons selected for receipt of *STARTUP-HELP assistance are students enrolled in an *accelerator program course at a regional university.

128B-40(2)    
For the purposes of subsection (1) , a regional university is one of the following:

(a)    Charles Sturt University;

(b)    Central Queensland University;

(c)    Federation University Australia;

(d)    Southern Cross University;

(e)    University of New England;

(f)    University of Southern Queensland;

(g)    University of the Sunshine Coast;

(h)    any other university, or particular campus of a university, specified in the STARTUP-HELP Guidelines.

128B-40(3)    
The Minister must not specify a university, or particular campus of a university, in the START-UP HELP Guidelines made for the purposes of paragraph (2)(h), unless the university or campus is located in a Remoteness Area categorised under the *ABS Remoteness Structure as Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia or Very Remote Australia.