Labor 2013-14 Budget Savings (Measures No. 2) Act 2015 (169 of 2015)
Schedule 1 Student start-up loans
Part 1 Amendments
Student Assistance Act 1973
71 After section 38
Insert:
38A ABSTUDY student start-up loan overpayments
(1) If:
(a) a person is paid an ABSTUDY student start-up loan for a qualification period; and
(b) the circumstances determined under subsection (2) apply to the person;
then the amount of the loan is an ABSTUDY student start-up loan overpayment .
(2) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine circumstances in which subsection (1) applies to a person who has not met, or who has ceased to meet, the condition in subparagraph 7C(1)(a)(iii).
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if, in the Secretary's opinion, the person did not meet, or ceased to meet, the condition in subparagraph 7C(1)(a)(iii) because of exceptional circumstances beyond the person's control.