Education Legislation Amendment (Overseas Debt Recovery) Act 2015 (154 of 2015)

Schedule 1   Repayment of accumulated HELP debts by overseas debtors

Part 2   Application provisions

11   Application of subsections 154-18(1) and (2)

(1) Subsections 154-18(1) and (2) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003, as inserted by this Act, apply:

(a) to persons who leave Australia after the commencement of this item; and

(b) subject to subitem (2), to persons who, immediately before that commencement, were outside Australia.

(2) If, immediately before the commencement of this item, a person was outside Australia, subsection 154-18(2) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003, as inserted by this Act, applies in relation to that absence from Australia (but not in relation to any later absence starting after that commencement) as if:

(a) the 183 days referred to in paragraph 154-18(2)(b) of that Act as so inserted were days occurring after that commencement; and

(b) that subsection as so inserted required the person to notify the Commissioner no later than 1 July 2017.