Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $4,000 if the person has not received a student relocation payment (see subsection (7)) before.
Note: The amount of a relocation scholarship payment for which a person is qualified on or after 1 January 2013 is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections 1190 to 1194).
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if:
(a) the person has, at any time before the calendar year containing the qualification time, undertaken full - time study in a course that, had the person undertaken it at the qualification time, would have been an approved scholarship course at that time; and
(b) at a time that was both while the person was undertaking that study and more than 6 months before the qualification time, the person was either:
(i) independent because of subsection 1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11); or
(ii) required to live away from home (see section 1067D).
(3) The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $1,000 if neither subsection (1) nor subsection (4) applies.
Note: The amount of a relocation scholarship payment for which a person is qualified on or after 1 January 2013 is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections 1190 to 1194).
(4) The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $2,000 if:
(a) in 1 or more calendar years (the prior years ) that precede the calendar year containing the qualification time, the person undertook full - time study in a course that, had the person undertaken it at the qualification time, would have been an approved scholarship course at that time; and
(b) in 1 or 2 (but no more) of the prior years:
(i) the person was, while undertaking such study, either independent because of subsection 1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11) or required to live away from home (see section 1067D); or
(ii) the person received a student relocation payment (see subsection (7)); and
(c) subsection (5) or (6) applies to the person.
Note: The amount of a relocation scholarship payment for which a person is qualified on or after 1 January 2013 is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections 1190 to 1194).
(5) This subsection applies to a person if, at the qualification time:
(a) the person is not independent (see section 1067A); and
(b) the person is required to live away from home (see section 1067D); and
(c) the home of a parent of the person is in a regional or remote location (see subsection (7)).
Note: For parent see subsection 5(1).
(6) This subsection applies to a person if:
(a) at the qualification time, the person is independent because of subsection 1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11); and
(b) at the time 6 months before the person first undertook study described in paragraph (4)(a) of this section, the person's usual place of residence was in a location that at the qualification time is a regional or remote location (see subsection (7)).
(7) In this section:
"regional or remote location" means:
(a) a location categorised as Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia or Very Remote Australia, under the Remoteness Structure as defined in subsection 1067A(10F); or
(b) Norfolk Island.
"student relocation payment" means any of the following:
(a) a relocation scholarship payment;
(b) a payment under the ABSTUDY Scheme known as an ABSTUDY relocation scholarship payment;
(c) a payment known as a relocation scholarship payment under the scheme referred to in section 117 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act;
(d) a payment known as a relocation scholarship payment under the scheme referred to in section 258 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act;
(e) the amount or value of a disqualifying accommodation scholarship.