Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 1) Act 2005 (56 of 2005)

Schedule 2   Amendments relating to assistance to students

Part 1   Amendments

Higher Education Support Act 2003

9   At the end of Division 79

Add:

Subdivision 79-B - Re-crediting a person's SLE if provider is unable to provide unit

79-20 Re-crediting a person's SLE if provider unable to provide unit

A higher education provider must, on the *Secretary's behalf, re-credit a person's *SLE with an amount equal to the *EFTSL value of a unit of study if:

(a) the person has been enrolled in the unit as part of a *course of study with the provider; and

(b) the person has not completed the requirements for the unit during the period during which the person undertook, or was to undertake, the unit because the provider ceased to be able to provide the unit; and

(c) the *tuition assurance requirements applied to the provider at the time the provider ceased to be able to provide the unit.

Note: A HECS-HELP debt relating to a unit of study will be remitted if the SLE in relation to the unit is re-credited: see subsection 137-5(4). In addition, it is a condition of the higher education provider's funding under Part 2-2 that payments for the unit must be repaid: see section 36-20.