Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending the Student Loan Fee Exemption) Act 2021

(51 of 2021)

An Act to amend the Higher Education Support Act 2003 in relation to the amount of a FEE HELP debt, and for related purposes

[Assented to 24 June 2021]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

This Act is the Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending the Student Loan Fee Exemption) Act 2021.

2   Commencement

 

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information

   

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1. The whole of this Act

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

24 June 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

      

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3   Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1   Extending the student loan fee exemption

Higher Education Support Act 2003

1   Subparagraph 137-10(2)(b)(i)

Omit "30 June 2021", substitute "31 December 2021".

2   Subparagraph 137-10(2)(b)(ia)

Omit "1 July 2021", substitute "1 January 2022".