AUSTUDY Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1997No. 323 1

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AUSTUDY Regulations2 (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 26 November 1997.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

CHRISTOPHER ELLISON

Minister for Schools, Vocational Education and Training

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 1 January 1997.

2.   Amendment

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

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

3.1   Omit the regulation, substitute:

68

Independent student: (a) age

 “68. A student is independent because of age:

• (a)

  if the student:

• (i)

  received the independent living allowance in 1995 only because he or she had turned 22; and

• (ii)

  did not receive the allowance in 1996 because, in accordance with requirements of his or her course, the student was undertaking employment related to the course; and

• (iii)

  resumed full-time study in the course in 1997; or

• (b)

  if the student received the independent living allowance in 1996 only because he or she had turned 22; or

• (c)

  if paragraph (a) or (b) does not apply to the student—when he or she turns 25.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 November 1997.

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 by the Senate on 10 September 1996); 1996 Nos. 21, 245, 246, 261 and 275; 1997 Nos. 83, 159, 187 and 302.