Student Assistance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 108

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 twenty-seventh day of June 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 from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3) “ not a full-time student and ”.

Living allowance—other students

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

(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (11) “ or ”;

(b) by omitting paragraph (c) of that sub-regulation;

(c) by omitting sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (12) and substituting the following subparagraph:

“ (ii) the amount of the additional living allowance payable in respect of the relevant period,”;

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (13) all the words from and including “ B is the amount ” to and including

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 July 1978.

  Statutory Rules 1974, No. 179 as amended by Statutory Rules 1974, Nos. 235 and 258; 1975, Nos. 136, 203 and 219; 1976, Nos. 92, 121, 286, 287, 292 and 293; and 1977, No. 147, 209, 210, 211, 219, 242 and 243.

11331/78—Cat. No. —Recommended retail price 10c 12/18.4.1978

 

“ prescribed proportion P ” and substituting “ B is the amount of the additional living allowance payable in respect of the relevant period ”;

(e) by omitting from sub-regulation (14) “ sub-regulations (11), (12) and (13) ”and substituting “ sub-regulation (12) ”; and

(f) by inserting after sub-regulation (15) the following sub-regulations:

“ (15a) Where—

(a) living allowance is payable in respect of a grantee; and

(b) a brother or sister of the kind referred to in paragraph (12) (b), being a brother or sister who is not a grantee, is in receipt of income,

the amount of additional living allowance that is payable to the grantee is reduced by an amount calculated in accordance with the formula—

where—

X is the amount of the income received by the brother or sister of the grantee;

Yis the amount of additional living allowance that would be payable to the brother or sister of the grantee in accordance with sub-regulation (15) if—

(a) each of the amounts ascertained in accordance with paragraphs 42 (3) (b) and 42 (3) (c) were zero; and

(b) the brother or sister of the grantee were a grantee;

C is the number of days in the relevant period; and

D is the number of days in the relevant year.

“ (15b) Where the amount calculated in accordance with the formula in sub-regulation (15a) is an amount that is less than zero, that amount shall, for the purposes of that sub-regulation, be deemed to be zero.”.

Application

3. The amendments made by regulations 1 and 2 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1978.

Printed by Authority by the Commonwealth Government Printer