Student Assistance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 216

REGULATIONS UNDER THE STUDENT ASSISTANCE ACT 1973*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Student Assistance Act 1973.

Dated this seventeenth day of October, 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. M. Chaney

minister of state for aboriginal affairs for and on behalf of the minister of state for education

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE STUDENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS 

Interpretation

1. (1) Regulation 29 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraphs (d) and (c) of the definition of “commencing date” in sub-regulation (1) “41 (3aaa) “and substituting “41 (3aa)”.

(2) Regulation 29 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (3) “in paragraph (b); and” and substituting “in paragraph (b); or”.

Eligibility-other students

2. (1) Regulation 34 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended, by inserting after paragraph (a) in sub-regulation (1) the following paragraph:

“(ab) if he is undertaking, or proposing to undertake, the first year of the 2 year course of study for the Certificate —Institute of Affiliated Accountants at Muirden College;”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 October, 1979.

  Statutory Rules 1974 No. 179 as amended by Statutory Rules 1974 Nos. 235 and 258; Nos. 136, 203 and 219; 1976, Nos. 92, 121, 286, 287, 292 and 293; 1977 Nos. 147, 209, 210, 211, 219, 242 and 243; and 1978 No. 108, 148, 189 199, 200, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264 and 265.

12669/79 Cat. No. —Recommended retail price 20c  13/11.7.1979

 

(2) Regulation 34 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (5aa) “paragraph (1) (h)” and substituting “paragraphs (1) (h) and (j)”.

Living allowance— student deemed to be of independent status

3. Regulation 41 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3aab) “sections 50 to 54” and substituting “sections 51 to 54”.

Living allowance— other students

4. Regulation 42 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (15a) “Y is the amount of additional living allowance” and substituting “Y is the amount of living allowance”.

Time limit for application— short course

5. Regulation 45b of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4) “20 weeks” and substituting “30 weeks”.

Late applications

6. Regulation 45ba of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “45a (3), (4) or (5) or 45 (b) (3) “and substituting “45b (3)”.

Schedule 1

7. Schedule 1 to the Student Assistance Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting “Burnley Horticultural College” after “Aquinas College”;

(b) by inserting “Dookie Agricultural College “after” Council of Legal Education Professional Admission Summer School”;.

(c) by inserting “Longerenong Agricultural College” after “Leo Cussen Institute for Continuing Legal Education”; and

(d) by inserting “Victoria School of Forestry, Creswick” after “Orthoptic School of Victoria”.

Application

8. (1) The amendments effected by sub-regulation 1(1) and regulation 4 apply in relation to the grant of Tertiary Education Assistance in respect of a period commencing on or after 1 January 1978.

(2) The amendments effected by sub-regulations 1 (2) and 2 (2) and regulation 7 apply in relation to the grant of Tertiary Education Assistance in respect of a period commencing on or after 1 January 1979.

Non-reduction

9. (1) Notwithstanding sub-regulation 8(1), where during the year that commenced on 1 January 1978 the amount of benefit under Tertiary Education Assistance that would have been payable in respect

of a person by virtue of the Student Assistance Regulations if that sub-regulation and sub-regulation 1 (1) had not come into operation exceeds the amount of benefit under Tertiary Education Assistance payable in respect of the person by virtue of the Student Assistance Regulations as amended in accordance with those sub-regulations, there is payable in respect of the person an amount equal to the amount of the excess.

(2) Notwithstanding sub-regulation 8 (2), where during the year that commenced on 1 January 1979 the amount of benefit under Tertiary Education Assistance that would have been payable in respect of a person by virtue of the Student Assistance Regulations if that sub-regulation and sub-regulation 2 (2) had not come into operation exceeds the amount of benefit under Tertiary Education Assistance payable in respect of the person by virtue of the Student Assistance Regulations as amended in accordance with those sub-regulations, there is payable in respect of the person an amount equal to the amount of the excess.

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