Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Act 2020 (93 of 2020)

Schedule 4A   Up-front payment discount

Higher Education Support Act 2003

1   At the end of Subdivision 36-D

Add:

36-50 Provider must not accept up-front payments of more than 90% of student contribution amounts

A higher education provider must not accept, from a person who:

(a) is enrolled in a unit of study with the provider; and

(b) is entitled to *HECS-HELP assistance for the unit;

*up-front payments in relation to the unit totalling more than 90% of the person's *student contribution amount for the unit.

Note: For entitlement to HECS-HELP assistance: see Division 90.