Higher Education Support Act 2003

S 96-3 repealed by No 64 of 2022, s 3 and Sch 4 item 11, applicable in relation to an up-front payment made in relation to a unit of study that has a census date on or after 1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 2023. S 96-3 formerly read:

SECTION 96-3 Payments to higher education providers - full up-front payment of student contribution amount  
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If:
(a) a student is entitled to an amount of *HECS-HELP assistance for a unit of study in which the student is enrolled with a higher education provider; and
(b) one or more *up-front payments have been made in relation the unit; and
(c) the amount of that up-front payment, or the sum of those up-front payments, is equal to 90% of the student ' s *student contribution amount for the unit;

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 the student ' s student contribution amount for the unit.

Note:

The student does not incur a HECS-HELP debt in relation to the amount of HECS-HELP assistance paid by the Commonwealth to the provider under this section.

S 96-3 inserted by No 93 of 2020, s 3 and Sch 4A item 7, 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 2021.