Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Act 2025 (30 of 2025)
Schedule 1 Debt reduction
Part 1 Amendments
VET Student Loans Act 2016
67 After subsection 23BA(3)
Insert:
(3A) For the purposes of subsection (3), the relevant day is:
(a) unless paragraph (b) applies - the day the Secretary pays the loan amount; or
(b) if subsection (3B) applies to the loan amount - 1 June 2025.
(3B) This subsection applies to a loan amount if:
(a) the loan amount should have been paid on or before 1 June 2025 but was paid after 1 June 2025 as a result of an administrative error; or
(b) the loan amount:
(i) was paid during the period of 6 months beginning immediately after 1 June 2025; and
(ii) was used to pay tuition fees for a course, or a part of a course, for which the census day was on or before 1 June 2025.