Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 169.15

  (1)   A higher education provider:

  (a)   must require any student who:

  (i)   is a * Commonwealth supported student in relation to a unit of study; and

  (ii)   is enrolling in the unit with the provider; and

  (iii)   is not an * exempt student for the unit;

    to pay to the provider the student's * student contribution amount for the unit; and

  (b)   must not require the student to pay any of his or her * tuition fee or any other * fee for the unit.

  (1A)   Despite subsection   (1), a higher education provider must not require a student who is enrolling in a unit that is a * replacement unit to pay to the provider the student's * student contribution amount for the unit.

  (2)   A higher education provider:

  (a)   must require any * domestic student who:

  (i)   is not a * Commonwealth supported student in relation to a unit of study; and

  (ii)   is enrolling in the unit with the provider; and

  (iii)   is not an * exempt student for the unit;

    to pay to the provider the student's * tuition fee for the unit; and

  (b)   must not require any domestic student to pay any other * fee, or any of his or her * student contribution amount, for the unit.

  (2A)   Despite subsection   (2), a higher education provider must not require a domestic student who is enrolling in a unit that is a * replacement unit to pay to the provider the student's * tuition fee for the unit.

  (3)   However (unless subsection   (4) applies), a higher education provider must repay to a person any payment of his or her * student contribution amount or * tuition fee for a unit of study that the person made on or before the * census date for the unit if the person is no longer enrolled in the unit at the end of the census date.

Note:   Other provisions about student contribution amounts and tuition fees are set out in Subdivision   19 - F and Parts   2 - 2 and 3 - 2.

  (4)   Subsection   (3) does not apply if:

  (a)   the student is no longer enrolled in the unit at the end of the census date because the provider * defaulted in relation to the student; and

  (b)   the student has accepted an offer of a place in a * replacement unit or * replacement course.