HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ACT 1988
[ CCH Note: Act No 150 of 2003, s 3 and Sch 1 items 22 and 24, contains the following transitional provisions:
``Assessment statements
22(1)
A written statement that an assessing body for a listed professional occupation gave to a person, at a time before the commencement of the new Act, is taken to be an assessment statement for the purposes of the new Act if:
(a) the person held a qualification awareded in a foreign country; and
(b) the qualification related to that occupation; and
(c) the person proposed to seek entry to that occupation:
(i) in Australia; or
(ii) if the assessing body was an assessing body of a State or Territory - in that State or Territory; and
(d) the body gave the person a written statement to the effect that, in the body's opinion, if the person were to do any or all of the following:
(i) successfully undertake additional studies of a kind specified in the statement;
(ii) be successful in one or more examinations specified in the statement;
(iii) successfully undertake a tuition and training program of a kind specified in the statement;the person would meet the requirements for entry to that occupation.
Note:
A statement could specify one of the things mentioned in subparagraph (d)(i), (ii) or (iii) or any combination of the things mentioned in those subparagraphs.
22(2)
In this item:assessing body
includes a person or body that, immediately before the commencement of the new Act, was an assessing body for the purposes of Chapter 4B of the old Act.listed professional occupation
includes an occupation that, immediately before that commencement, was a listed professional occupation for the purposes of that Chapter.occupation
includes a part of an occupation that, immediately before that commencement, was an occupation for the purposes of that Chapter.
Definitions
24
In this Schedule:new Act
means the Higher Education Support Bill 2003 .old Act
means the Higher Education Funding Act 1988 .'']
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(a) has made an application under section 98X for a BOTP loan before the census date for a BOTP course for a study period that began on or after 1 July 2002, being the course specified in the application; and
(b) meets the citizenship/residency requirements on the census date for that course for that study period; and
(c) is enrolled in the BOTP course on the census date for that course for that study period; and
(d) has not, on or before the census date for that course for that study period, paid the full amount of the fees charged by the institution concerned for so much of that course as is being undertaken by the student for that study period.
98ZA(2)
The Commonwealth must, as a benefit to the student:
(a) lend to the student an amount equal to the amount of the fees outstanding immediately after the census date; and
(b) apply the amount so lent in making a payment to the institution in discharge of the student's liability to pay the amount of the fees outstanding.
98ZA(3)
The Commonwealth may make advances to the institution on account of an amount that is expected to become payable by the Commonwealth to the institution under this section.
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