Student Assistance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 139

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 thirteenth day of July 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. M. CHANEY

Minister Of State For Aboriginal Affairs For And Behalf Of The Minister Of State For Education

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE STUDENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS  

Eligibility-nature of proposed or previous course

1. Regulation 34 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (12) “suffered” and substituting “had been diagnosed as suffering”.

Eligibility— course not resumed by reason of illness or circumstances beyond control of applicant

2. Regulation 34d of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “suffered” and substituting “had been diagnosed as suffering”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 July, 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 Nos. 108, 148, 189, 199, 200, 261, 262, 263, 264 and 265.

12051/79 Cat. No.  —Recommended retail price 20c  13/5.6.1979

 

Claims for allowances

3. (1) Regulation 75a of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:

“(9) Sub-regulation (7) or (8) does not apply where—

(a) the holder has taken reasonable steps to ensure that his claim is received by an authorized person within the period specified in this regulation with respect to the claim; and

(b) by reason of circumstances beyond the holder’s control, the claim is not received by an authorized, person within the period so specified.

“(10) Sub-regulation (7) or (8) does not apply where—

(a) by reason of circumstances beyond the holder’s control, the holder is unable to take reasonable steps to ensure that his claim is received by an authorized person within the period specified in this regulation with respect to the claim; and

(b) as soon as practicable after those circumstances are no longer applicable in respect of the holder, the holder takes reasonable steps to furnish his claim to an authorized person.”.

(2) The amendment effected’ by sub-regulation (1) shall be deemed to have come into operation on 21 December 1978.

Application

4. The amendments of the Student Assistance Regulations effected by regulations 1 and 2 apply in relation to the grant of Tertiary Education Assistance in respect Of a period commencing on or after 1 January 1979.

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