EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Employment, Education and Training
STATUTORY RULES 1989 No. 119
STUDENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Legislative authority
1. The Student Assistance Act 1973 and the Student Assistance Regulations (the Principal Regulations) provide the legislative authority for the AUSTUDY scheme and for Post-graduate Awards.
Details of changes made
2. The Government decided in the 1988/89 Budget context to discontinue the availability of AUSTUDY for students at most non-government business colleges. Statutory Rules No. 346 of 1988 implemented the decision by inserting a new Schedule 3 into the Principal Regulations. (Schedule 3 lists educational institutions to be treated as technical and further education institutions for the purposes of the Act.)
3. The Government has decided not to proceed with the earlier decision. Regulation 2 of the proposed Statutory Rules will accordingly insert a new Schedule 3 reinstating colleges omitted by the 1988 amendment. (Some colleges will not be reinstated as they have ceased to operate.)
Commencement
4. The amendment is deemed to have come into effect on 1 January 1989, the date when the schedule inserted by Statutory Rules No. 346 of 1988 came into effect. The amendment is entirely beneficial and does not prejudicially affect any pre-existing rights.