Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 96.10

                   If:

                     (a)  a student is entitled to an amount of * HECS-HELP assistance for a unit of study with a higher education provider; and

                     (b)  one or more * up-front payments have been made for the unit; and

                     (c)  the sum of all of the up-front payments made for all of the student's units of study:

                              (i)  that have the same * census date as that unit; and

                             (ii)  in relation to which the student is enrolled as a * Commonwealth supported student;

                            is 90% of the sum of the student's * student contribution amounts for all of his or her units;

the Commonwealth must, as a benefit to the student, pay to the provider the amount of HECS-HELP assistance for the unit in discharge of that amount of the student's liability to pay his or her student contribution amount for the unit.

Note:          HECS-HELP assistance does not give rise to a HECS-HELP debt if there has been an up-front payment of 90% of a student's student contribution amount for the unit and for the student's other units with the same census date.