Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 128B.1

Entitlement to STARTUP - HELP assistance

  (1)   A student is entitled to * STARTUP - HELP assistance for an * accelerator program course in which the student is enrolled with a higher education provider if:

  (a)   the student meets the citizenship or residency requirements under section   128B - 30; and

  (b)   any of the following apply:

  (i)   the student is in the final year of an * undergraduate course of study;

  (ii)   the student is enrolled in a * postgraduate course of study;

  (iii)   the student was awarded, no more than 36 months before the person commenced the accelerator program course, a qualification at level 7, 8, 9 or 10 of the * Australian Qualifications Framework; and

  (c)   the student has not received more than one amount of STARTUP - HELP assistance (for this purpose, disregard any amount of assistance that has been * reversed under Division   128E); and

  (d)   the * census date for the accelerator program course is on or after 1   July 2023; and

  (e)   the student:

  (i)   enrolled in the accelerator program course on or before the census date for the course; and

  (ii)   at the end of the census date, remained so enrolled; and

  (f)   the student * meets the tax file number requirements (see section   187 - 1); and

  (g)   the student has, on or before the census date for the accelerator program course, completed, signed and given to an * appropriate officer of the provider a * request for Commonwealth assistance in relation to the course; and

  (h)   the student has been assessed by the provider as academically suited to undertake the accelerator program course; and

  (i)   the student has applied to the provider for receipt of STARTUP - HELP assistance in relation to the accelerator program course; and

  (j)   the student meets the * student identifier requirements under subsection   (4); and

  (k)   the provider has selected the student for receipt of STARTUP - HELP assistance in relation to the accelerator program course (see section   128B - 35).

  (2)   Subsection   (1) has effect subject to the following provisions:

  (a)   section   128B - 5 (multiple courses at same time);

  (b)   section   128B - 10 (not a genuine student);

  (c)   section   128B - 15 (unreasonable study load);

  (d)   section   128B - 20 (overseas campus).

Academically suited

  (3)   The assessment for the purposes of paragraph   (1)(h) must be done in accordance with any requirements specified in the Higher Education Provider Guidelines made for the purposes of section   19 - 42 (assessment of students as academically suited).

When a student meets the student identifier requirements

  (4)   A student meets the * student identifier requirements under this subsection if:

  (a)   the student has a student identifier immediately before the * census date; and

  (b)   before the census date, the student notifies the student's student identifier to:

  (i)   an * appropriate officer of the higher education provider; and

  (ii)   the * Secretary.

  (5)   A notification under paragraph   (4)(b) may be included in a * request for Commonwealth assistance that the student has given to the higher education provider in relation to the * accelerator program course.

Definition of request for Commonwealth assistance

  (6)   A request for Commonwealth assistance , in relation to a person enrolling in an * accelerator program course with a higher education provider, means a document:

  (a)   in which the person requests the Commonwealth to provide assistance under this Act in relation to the course; and

  (b)   that is in the form approved by the Minister.