Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 36.55

Tuition fees for units of study

  (1)   A higher education provider must not determine, as a person's * tuition fee for a unit of study, an amount that is less than the highest * student contribution amount that the provider would charge any person who is a * Commonwealth supported student in relation to the unit.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply if the person is enrolled in an * employer reserved place. However, the provider must not charge, as the person's * tuition fees for the unit, amounts that are such that the sum of:

  (a)   the tuition fees; and

  (b)   the * employer contribution amount for the unit;

is less than the * student contribution amount referred to in subsection   (1).

  (3)   If a person:

  (a)   is enrolled in study with a higher education provider on a * non - award basis; and

  (b)   could have enrolled in that study as a unit of study if the enrolment were not on a non - award basis;

the provider must not charge, as the person's * fees for the study, amounts that in total are less than the highest amount that the provider would charge any person:

  (c)   who may enrol in the study as a unit of study; and

  (d)   who is a * Commonwealth supported student in relation to the unit.