Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 2) Act 2005 (83 of 2005)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the Higher Education Support Act 2003

Part 1   Amendments commencing on Royal Assent

15   At the end of Division 79

Add:

Subdivision 79-C - Students without tax file numbers

79-25 Re-crediting a person's SLE - no tax file number

A higher education provider must, on the *Secretary's behalf, re-credit a person's *SLE with an amount equal to the *EFTSL value of a unit of study if:

(a) the provider cancels the person's enrolment in the unit under subsection 193-5(1); and

(b) the unit does not wholly consist of *work experience in industry.

Note: A HECS-HELP debt relating to a unit of study will be remitted if the SLE in relation to the unit is re-credited: see subsection 137-5(4). In addition, it is a condition of the higher education provider's funding under Part 2-2 that payments for the unit must be repaid: see section 36-20.