Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (COLLEGES) REGULATIONS 1996 - REG 14

14 .         Unemployed persons exempt from course fees

        (1)         In this regulation —

        Job Services Australia provider means an organisation contracted by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations of the Commonwealth to provide Job Support services to job seekers;

        unemployed person means a person who holds —

            (a)         a Health Care Card issued by Centrelink that identifies the person as being in receipt of a Newstart Allowance with the code “NS”; or

            (b)         a Health Care Card issued by Centrelink that identifies the person as being in receipt of a Youth Allowance with the code “YA”; or

            (c)         a Job Services identification card issued by Centrelink or by a Job Services Australia provider that includes a job seeker identification number.

        (2)         Subject to subregulation (3), no amount of a category A course fee is payable on or before 30 June 2012 in respect of a semester by a person who is an unemployed person at the commencement of the semester.

        (3)         Subregulation (2) does not apply if the unemployed person was —

            (a)         exempt in a previous semester from the payment of course fees under subregulation (2) for a category A course that was wholly completed in that semester; or

            (b)         exempt in any 2 previous semesters from the payment of course fees under subregulation (2) for a category A course where both exemptions were for the same course.

        [Regulation 14 inserted in Gazette 26 Jun 2009 p. 2566‑7; amended in Gazette 18 Dec 2009 p. 5173-4; 27 Oct 2011 p. 4558.]

[ 15.         Deleted in Gazette 23 Dec 2005 p. 6247.]