Higher Education Support Amendment (2009 Budget Measures) Act 2009 (86 of 2009)

Schedule 5   Maximum student contribution amounts

Higher Education Support Act 2003

3   Saving provision - maximum student contribution amounts for old funding clusters

(1) This item applies in relation to a person if:

(a) the person started a course of study with a higher education provider before 1 January 2010; and

(b) the person was a Commonwealth supported student in relation to a unit of study in that course; and

(c) any of the following apply to the person:

(i) the person had not completed the course by 31 December 2009;

(ii) in 2009, the person was undertaking an enabling course;

(iii) the person has completed the related course for an honours course of study and is undertaking the honours course of study; and

(d) the person is undertaking a unit that would have been included in:

(i) Education in the funding cluster Mathematics, Statistics, Behavioural Science, Social Studies, Education, Computing, Built Environment, Other Health; or

(ii) the funding cluster Nursing;

if the amendments made by Schedule 2 to this Act had not been made.

(2) Despite subsection 93-10(1) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 as amended by this Schedule, the maximum student contribution amount for a place in the unit referred to in paragraph (1)(d) of this item for the person is the amount that would have been the maximum student contribution amount for a place in that unit if the amendment of subsection 93-10(1) made by this Schedule had not been made.