Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 128B.40

  (1)   The STARTUP - HELP Guidelines must include principles and procedures for ensuring, so far as reasonably practicable, that at least 25% of the persons selected for receipt of * STARTUP - HELP assistance are students enrolled in an * accelerator program course at a regional university.

  (2)   For the purposes of subsection   (1), a regional university is one of the following:

  (a)   Charles Sturt University;

  (b)   Central Queensland University;

  (c)   Federation University Australia;

  (d)   Southern Cross University;

  (e)   University of New England;

  (f)   University of Southern Queensland;

  (g)   University of the Sunshine Coast;

  (h)   any other university, or particular campus of a university, specified in the STARTUP - HELP Guidelines.

  (3)   The Minister must not specify a university, or particular campus of a university, in the STARTUP - HELP Guidelines made for the purposes of paragraph   (2)(h), unless the university or campus is located in a Remoteness Area categorised under the * ABS Remoteness Structure as Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia or Very Remote Australia.