Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00140:clause:1_4:p34
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00140
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 4 (pt 34/67)
Character Range: 369560–372187

(1A) For the purposes of subparagraphs (1)(a)(i), (ii) and (iii), an amount of *HECS‑HELP assistance, *FEE‑HELP assistance or *VET FEE‑HELP assistance is taken to have been payable for a person immediately after the *census date for the unit to which the assistance relates (whether or not the amount has been paid at that time).
 (1B) For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(a)(iv), an amount of a *VET student loan is taken to have been payable for a person immediately after the *census day for the course or a part of the course to which the loan amount relates (whether or not the amount has been paid at that time).
 (2) For the purposes of subparagraphs (1)(a)(i), (ii), (iii) and (iv), it is immaterial whether amounts of *HECS‑HELP assistance, *FEE‑HELP assistance, *VET FEE‑HELP assistance and *VET student loans have been repaid.
 (3) Subsection (2) is enacted for the avoidance of doubt.

128‑20  HELP loan limit
 (1) The HELP loan limit is:
 (a) $106,319; or
 (b) in relation to a person who is enrolled in a *course of study in medicine, a *course of study in dentistry, a *course of study in veterinary science or a *course of study in aviation, while the person is enrolled in that course—$152,700.
Note: The HELP loan limit is indexed under Part 5‑6.
 (2) A course of study in aviation is a *course of study, or an approved course (within the meaning of the VET Student Loans Act 2016), specified in the FEE‑HELP Guidelines for the purposes of this subsection.

128‑25  Re‑crediting HELP balance—discharge of HELP debt etc.
 (1) If, during:
 (a) the financial year starting on 1 July 2019; or
 (b) a later financial year;
a payment was made in discharge of the whole or a part of a debt that a person owes to the Commonwealth under Chapter 4, the *Commissioner must:
 (c) notify the payment to the Secretary; and
 (d) do so as soon as practicable after the end of that financial year.
Note 1: The payment may be a voluntary repayment.
Note 2: The payment may be in the form of the application of an amount against the debt.
 (2) If the Secretary is so notified, the Secretary must re‑credit the person's *HELP balance with an amount equal to the amount of the payment.
 (3) If, under section 142‑15 or 144‑10, the *Secretary determines, during a financial year, that an amount is to be reduced from a person's *accumulated HELP debt, the Secretary must re‑credit the person's *HELP balance with an amount equal to the amount reduced as soon as practicable after the end of that financial year.

Part 3‑7—STARTUP‑HELP assistance

Division 128A—Introduction

128A‑1  What this Part is about

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