Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A higher education provider must, on the * Secretary's behalf, reduce a person's * SLE amount at a particular time if:
(a) the person enrolled in a unit of study as part of a * course of study (other than an * enabling course) with the provider; and
(b) at the end of the * census date for the unit, the person remained so enrolled; and
(c) the person is a * Commonwealth supported student in relation to the unit; and
(d) the unit is not:
(i) an * ineligible work experience unit for the person; or
(ii) a * replacement unit; and
(e) the person has, on or before the census date for the unit, completed, signed and given to an * appropriate officer of the provider a * request for Commonwealth assistance in relation to:
(i) the unit; or
(ii) where the course of study of which the unit forms a part is undertaken with the provider--the course of study.
Note: A person's SLE amount must be re - credited in certain circumstances: see Division 79.
(2) The amount of the reduction is an amount equal to the * EFTSL value of the unit of study.
(3) The reduction takes effect immediately after the * census date for the unit of study.
(4) If a higher education provider reduces a person's * SLE amount at a particular time under subsection (1), the provider must, in accordance with the Student Learning Entitlement Guidelines and on the * Secretary's behalf, reduce any one or more of the following amounts to take account of the reduction under that subsection:
(a) an amount of * ordinary SLE (if any) that the person has at that time;
(b) an amount of * additional SLE (if any) that the person has at that time;
(c) an amount of * lifelong SLE (if any) that the person has at that time.
(5) If a higher education provider is unable to act for the purposes of subsection (1) or (4), the * Secretary may act as if any one or more of the references in that subsection to the provider were a reference to the Secretary.