Higher Education Support Act 2003

Chapter 2 - Grants for higher education assistance etc  

PART 2-2 - COMMONWEALTH GRANT SCHEME  

Division 36 - What are the conditions of receiving a grant?  

Subdivision 36-E - Conditions relating to tuition fees  

SECTION 36-55   Tuition fees for non-Commonwealth supported students  
Tuition fees for units of study

36-55(1)    

A higher education provider must not determine, as a person ' s *tuition fee for a unit of study, an amount that is less than the highest *student contribution amount that the provider would charge any person who is a *Commonwealth supported student in relation to the unit.

36-55(2)    

Subsection (1) does not apply if the person is enrolled in an *employer reserved place. However, the provider must not charge, as the person ' s *tuition fees for the unit, amounts that are such that the sum of:

(a) the tuition fees; and

(b) the *employer contribution amount for the unit;

is less than the *student contribution amount referred to in subsection (1):

(c) if paragraph (d) does not apply - the *student contribution amount referred to in paragraph (1)(a); or

(d) such amount as is specified in the Tuition Fee Guidelines for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b).

36-55(3)    
If a person:

(a) is enrolled in study with a higher education provider on a *non-award basis; and

(b) could have enrolled in that study as a unit of study if the enrolment were not on a non-award basis;

the provider must not charge, as the person ' s *fees for the study, amounts that in total are less than the highest amount that the provider would charge any person:

(c) who may enrol in the study as a unit of study; and

(d) who is a *Commonwealth supported student in relation to the unit.