Student Assistance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 264

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 Fourteenth day of December, 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command;

Minister of State for Education

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE STUDENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS 

Interpretation

1. Regulation 29 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by omitting “in the relevant year” from the definition of “academic year” in sub-regulation (1) and substituting “in a year, being the period”.

Eligibility— other students

2. Regulation 34 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1), after paragraph (a), tile following paragraph:

“(b) if, being an applicant who is undertaking, or proposes to undertake, an approved course of study at a university that is a qualification for the entry of the applicant to a post-graduate course at a university for the degree of Master or Doctor, he has, before the relevant day—

(i) attempted, whether as a full-time or part-time student, more than one-half of a year’s

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December, 1978

  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

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work for a full-time student in such a course;

(ii) undertaken, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, the requirements for the award of ‘an honours level bachelor degree, being requirements additional to those for the award of a pass level bachelor degree; or

(iii) been awarded an honours level bachelor degree;”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

“(12) A reference in sub-regulation (5) or (5b) to illness or other circumstances does not include a reference to an illness from which the applicant suffered, or other circumstances applicable in respect of the applicant, at the time he commenced the year of the course of study or instruction referred to in whichever of those sub-regulations is applicable to him.”.

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

3. Regulation 34d of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

“(2) A reference in this regulation to illness or other circumstances does not include a reference to an illness from which the applicant suffered, or other circumstances applicable in respect of the applicant, at the time he commenced the course of study or instruction.”.

Living allowance— other students

4. Regulation 42 of the Student Assistance Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “education assistance” and substituting “educational assistance”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

“(22) In determining, for the purposes of this regulation, whether a brother or sister of a grantee is undertaking an approved course as a full-time student, regulation 44 applies to the brother or sister as if the brother or sister were a grantee.”.

Repeal

5. Regulations 81, 82 and 83 of the Student Assistance Regulations are repealed.

Application

6. The amendments of the Student Assistance Regulations effected by regulation 2 apply in relation to the grant of Tertiary Education Assistance in respect of a period commencing on 1 January 1979.

 

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