Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN APPRENTICESHIP SUPPORT LOANS ACT 2014 - SECT 8

Qualification for Australian apprenticeship support loan

  (1)   A person is qualified for Australian apprenticeship support loan if:

  (a)   the person is an Australian resident; and

  (b)   the person is undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship; and

  (c)   the person has notified the Secretary of the person's tax file number; and

  (d)   the person meets any other conditions prescribed by the rules.

When a person is undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship

  (2)   A qualifying apprenticeship is an apprenticeship:

  (a)   through which a person is undertaking a qualification:

  (i)   at a level prescribed by the rules; and

  (ii)   leading to an occupation or a qualification specified on the Australian Apprenticeships Priority List; and

  (b)   which meets any other requirements prescribed by the rules.

  (3)   The rules may prescribe circumstances in which a person is, or is not, taken to be undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship.

  (4)   Without limiting the circumstances that may be prescribed for the purposes of subsection   (3), the rules may prescribe, as circumstances in which a person is taken to be undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship, the period between:

  (a)   the time a person successfully completes a qualifying apprenticeship; and

  (b)   the time a designated State/Territory training authority notifies the Secretary that the person has done so.