Statutory Rules 1996
No. 21 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
29 January 1996.
BILL
HAYDEN
Governor-General
By His
Excellency’s Command,
ROSS FREE
Minister
for Schools, Vocational Education and Training
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1. Amendment
1.1 The AUSTUDY
Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.
[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts
Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]
2. New Chapter 6B
2.1 After Chapter 6A,
insert:
Chapter 6B |
Schooling Incidentals
Allowance |
103 Interpretation | “103. In this Chapter: ‘SIA’ means the Schooling Incidentals Allowance
payable under this Chapter. |
104 Who can get SIA? | “104. (1) A student can get SIA
in a year if: (a) he or she is a
secondary student; and (b) at some time between
1 January and 31 March in that year, he or she qualifies as independent under
regulation 72, 73, 74, 75 or 76.
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“(2) A student cannot get SIA in a year if: (a) he or she has
already been paid SIA in that year; or (b) he or she has been
paid a Schooling Incidentals Allowance or an Incidentals Allowance under the
ABSTUDY Scheme (also known as the Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme) in that
year.
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105
How much is SIA? | “105. (1) SIA for the year 1996 is a
single payment of $300. |
“(2) SIA for a year later than 1996 is a single
payment of the amount worked out by multiplying SIA for the year before that
later year by the indexation factor for that later year. |
“(3) For the purposes of subregulation (2), the
indexation factor is identical to the indexation factor applied in section
12ZZA of the Act for the purposes of that section. |
106
How might an overpayment of SIA arise? | “106. If a student has been paid SIA in a year,
and he or she has not begun to study in the course for which that amount was
paid by the end of the second week of classes in the first term or semester
of the course, the amount paid is taken to be a student assistance
overpayment for the purposes of Part 6 of the Act.”. |
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NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth
of Australia Gazette on 31 January 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 No. 132 and 393.