Austudy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1996

No. 261 1

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AUSTUDY Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Student and Youth Assistance Act 1973.

Dated 4 December 1996.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

amanda vanstone

Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs

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1.   Commencement

1.1   Regulation 7 commences on 1 January 1997.

[NOTE: The remainder of these Regulations commences on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Amendment

2.1   The AUSTUDY Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   Application of amendments

3.1 The amendments of the AUSTUDY Regulations made by regulations 4, 5, and 6 of these Regulations apply only in relation to applications for AUSTUDY for a period starting on or after 1 January 1997.

4.   Regulation 68 (Independent student: (a) age)

4.1   Omit the regulation, substitute:

68

Independent student: (a) age

“68.(1)   For the purposes of paragraph 67 (a), a student is independent:

(a) if the student receives independent living allowance in 1996 because of the operation of that paragraph; or

(b) in any other case—on and after the student’s 25th birthday.”.

5.   Regulation 102A (Who can get rent assistance?)

5.1   Subparagraph 102A (1) (a) (i):

Omit “22 years”, substitute “25 years”.

6.   Regulation 102B (What happens if a student turns 25 years of age?)

6.1   Omit “22 years”, substitute “25 years”.

7.   Chapter 6B (Schooling Incidentals Allowance)

7.1   Omit the Chapter.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 December 1996.

2. Statutory Rules 1990 No. 443 as amended by 1991 No. 480; 1992 Nos. 24 and 399; 1993 No. 367; 1994 Nos. 13, 91 and 409; 1995 Nos. 132 and 393 (disallowed in the Senate on 10 September 1996); 1996 Nos. 21, 245 and 246.