Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 169.20

  (1)   The Minister may determine in writing that all students, or students of a specified kind, are exempt from payment of their * student contribution amounts and * tuition fees for:

  (a)   any units of study undertaken as part of a specified * course of study; or

  (b)   any units of study undertaken as part of a course of study of a specified kind.

A student, or a student of such a kind, (as the case requires) is an exempt student for those units.

  (2)   The Administration Guidelines may provide that:

  (a)   in all circumstances; or

  (b)   in the circumstances specified in those guidelines;

all students are exempt from payment of their * student contribution amounts and * tuition fees for any units of study that wholly consist of * work experience in industry. A student is, or is in those specified circumstances, (as the case requires) an exempt student for such units.

  (3)   A student is an exempt student for a unit of study undertaken with a higher education provider as part of a * course of study with that provider if:

  (a)   the provider has awarded the student an exemption scholarship for the course; and

  (b)   the provider awarded the scholarship in accordance with any requirements specified in the Administration Guidelines.

  (3A)   A student is an exempt student for a unit of study undertaken with one higher education provider as part of a * course of study with another (the home provider ) if:

  (a)   the home provider has awarded the student an exemption scholarship for the course; and

  (b)   the home provider awarded the scholarship in accordance with any requirements specified in the Administration Guidelines; and

  (c)   the student must undertake the unit, because it is required to complete the course.

  (3B)   A student is an exempt student for a unit of study undertaken with one higher education provider (the host provider ) as part of a * course of study undertaken with another if:

  (a)   the host provider has awarded the student an exemption for the unit; and

  (b)   the host provider awarded the scholarship in accordance with any requirements specified in the Administration Guidelines.

  (4)   Without limiting the matters that may be specified in the Administration Guidelines for the purposes of paragraph   (3)(b), those matters may include one or both of the following:

  (a)   the maximum number of exemption scholarships that a particular higher education provider may award in respect of a year;

  (b)   which students are eligible to receive exemption scholarships.