VET Student Loans Amendment Rules (No. 1) 2019

Made under the VET Student Loans Act 2016

I, Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, make the following legislative instrument.

Dated  25 July 2019

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments to the VET Student Loans Rules 2016

1  Name

  This instrument is the VET Student Loans Amendment Rules (No. 1) 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

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

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the VET Student Loans Act 2016.

4  Schedule

  The VET Student Loans Rules 2016 are amended as set out in the Schedule to this instrument.

Schedule 1—Amendments to the VET Student Loans Rules 2016

Part 1—Separation of VET student loan debts from HELP debts

1  Paragraph 23(3)(d)

After “HELP debts”, insert “or VETSL debts”.

2  Paragraph 98(2)(j)

Omit “HELP debt”, substitute “VETSL debt”.

3  Subparagraph 98(2)(l)(iii)

Omit “VET student loan debt”, substitute “VETSL debt”.

4  Subparagraph 99(4)(m)(ii)

Omit “HELP debt”, substitute “VETSL debt”.

5  Subparagraph 99(4)(n)(ii)

Omit “VET student loan debt”, substitute “VETSL debt”.

6  Paragraph 99(4)(s)

Omit “VET student loan debt”, substitute “VETSL debt”.

7  Paragraph 100(4)(n)

Omit “HELP debt”, substitute “VETSL debt”.

8  Subparagraph 142(a)(iv)

Omit “HELP debt”, substitute “VETSL debt”.

Part 2—Miscellaneous amendments

9  After paragraph 80(2)(a)

Insert:

(aa) the provider obtains a copy of a diploma that has been awarded to the student for the student’s completion of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme; or

10  Subparagraph 80(2)(c)(i)

Repeal the subparagraph, substitute:

(i)                  the provider obtains a copy of a certificate (however described) that the student has been awarded a qualification, either:

1. at level 4 or above in the Australian Qualifications Framework or at a level in a framework that preceded the Australian Qualifications Framework that is equivalent to level 4 or above in the Australian Qualifications Framework; or
2. that has been assessed by a Federal, State or Territory government agency which assesses overseas qualifications (or an organisation contracted by such an agency to undertake such assessments) as equivalent or comparable to a qualification referred to in sub-subparagraph (2)(c)(i)(A).

11  Paragraph 116(1)(d)

Repeal the paragraph.

12  Paragraph 116(1)(e)

Repeal the paragraph.

13  Paragraph 116(1)(f)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(f) the proposed census days for each of the approved courses offered by the provider;

14  Paragraph 116(1)(i)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(i)                  the tuition fees for each approved course to be offered by the provider in the next financial year;

15  Paragraph 116(1)(k)

Repeal the paragraph.