Student contribution amounts for students under the Higher Education Contribution Scheme
1 Student contribution amounts for students under the Higher Education Contribution Scheme
If:
a person is enrolled with an institution in a unit of study that forms part of a course of study that the person started before 1 January 2005; and
the period over which the person is undertaking the unit ends on or before 31 December 2008; and
the person is a contributing student within the meaning of Chapter 4 of the Higher Education Funding Act 1988; and
the course is a designated course of study within the meaning of that Chapter; and
the person:
is entitled to HECS‑HELP assistance for the unit; or
would be entitled to HECS‑HELP assistance for the unit but for paragraph 90‑1(a) or (c), or paragraphs 90‑1(a) and (c), of the Higher Education Support Act 2003; and
the person has neither:
discontinued his or her enrolment in the course since that commencement (see item 2); nor
completed the requirements of the course;
then:
if the institution is not (apart from this item) a higher education provider-the institution is taken, for the purposes of the application of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 in relation to the person and the unit, to be a higher education provider; and
if subparagraph (f)(ii) applies and the person is not an excepted student-the person is taken, for the purposes of that Act, to be entitled to HECS‑HELP assistance for the unit; and
the person is taken, for the purposes of that Act, to be a Commonwealth supported student in relation to the unit; and
the person's student contribution amount for the unit is taken, for the purposes of that Act, not to exceed the amount that would be worked out under section 93‑5 of that Act if the maximum student contribution amount for a place in the unit were worked out under item 3.
However, this item does not apply if the person has notified an appropriate officer of the institution, under subsection 36‑5(3) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003, that he or she does not wish to be a Commonwealth supported student in relation to the unit.
A person cannot establish for the purposes of subitem (1) that he or she is a contributing student within the meaning of Chapter 4 of the Higher Education Funding Act 1988, or not an excepted student, more than 6 weeks after the census date for the unit.
In this item:
excepted student has the meaning given by subsection 41(3) of the Higher Education Funding Act 1988.
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