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HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 36.24BB

Providers to repay amounts--provider completes request for assistance

  (1)   This section applies to a person if the person's * HELP balance is re - credited with an amount relating to * HECS - HELP assistance for a unit of study under section   97 - 45.

Note:   The person's HECS - HELP debt relating to the unit is taken to be remitted if the person's HELP balance is re - credited in relation to the unit under section   97 - 45: see section   137 - 5.

  (2)   The higher education provider must:

  (a)   pay to the person an amount equal to the payment, or the sum of the payments, that the person made in relation to the person's * student contribution amount for the unit; and

  (b)   pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to the amount (if any) that was paid to the provider for the unit under section   96 - 1.

  (3)   Subsection   (2) does not apply to the provider if:

  (a)   the person enrolled in the unit as a * replacement unit; or

  (b)   it is determined that section   36 - 24A applies to the person in relation to the unit.

  (4)   The Higher Education Provider Guidelines may, in setting out the * tuition protection requirements, specify, in relation to circumstances to which paragraph   (3)(a) applies:

  (a)   the amount (if any) that is to be paid to the person; and

  (b)   the amount (if any) that is to be paid to the Commonwealth; and

  (c)   the person (if any) who is to pay the amounts.



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