Higher Education Support Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Act 2023 (3 of 2023)

Schedule 2   HELP debt arrangements for certain rural, remote or very remote health practitioners

Part 1   Amendments

Higher Education Support Act 2003

22   After subsection 142-10(3)

Insert:

(3A) For the purposes of subsection (3), the period is:

(a) the period of 60 days after the day the *Secretary receives the application under subsection (4); or

(b) any longer period (not exceeding 6 months) determined in writing by the Secretary in relation to the application.

Note: The Secretary is taken to have made a decision to reject the application if the Secretary does not notify the person of the decision within the period specified by this subsection: see section 206-5.

(3B) If the notice states a number of days by which indexation of the person's *accumulated HELP debt is to be reduced, the *Secretary must give a copy of the notice to the *Commissioner.