Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Act 2025 (30 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Debt reduction

Part 2   Modification and transitional rules

Division 1   Modification rules

86   Requirements for making modification rules

Agreement of administering Minister

(1) The Minister must not make rules under subitem 85(1) that modify the operation of a provision of an Act without the written agreement of a Minister administering the Act.

(2) Subitem (1) does not apply in relation to a provision of the Higher Education Support Act 2003.

Time limit on making rules

(3) Rules under subitem 85(1) may only be made before the later of:

(a) 1 January 2026; and

(b) the day after the end of the period of 3 months beginning on the day this item commences.

Rules must not do certain things

(4) To avoid doubt, rules made under subitem 85(1) may not do the following:

(a) create an offence or civil penalty;

(b) provide powers of:

(i) arrest or detention; or

(ii) entry, search or seizure;

(c) impose a tax;

(d) set an amount to be appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund under an appropriation in this Act;

(e) directly amend the text of an Act.