VET Student Payment Arrangements (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2021 (17 of 2021)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 1   Amendments commencing day after Royal Assent

VET Student Loans Act 2016

6   After paragraph 20(g)

Insert:

; (h) the Secretary is satisfied that special circumstances prevented, or will prevent, the student from completing the requirements for the course, or the part of the course;

(i) the Secretary is satisfied that the course provider, or a person acting on the provider's behalf, engaged in unacceptable conduct in relation to the student's application for the VET student loan;

(j) both of the following apply:

(i) the student has not completed the requirements for the course, or the part of the course, because the provider defaulted in relation to the student;

(ii) the VSL Tuition Protection Director decides, under paragraph 66E(1)(b), that the Director is not satisfied that there is a suitable replacement course for the student.