Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00136:section:8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00136
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8
Character Range: 15682–17044

8  Qualification

Qualification for Australian apprenticeship support loan
 (1) A person is qualified for Australian apprenticeship support loan if:
 (a) the person is an Australian resident; and
 (b) the person is undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship; and
 (c) the person has notified the Secretary of the person's tax file number; and
 (d) the person meets any other conditions prescribed by the rules.

When a person is undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship
 (2) A qualifying apprenticeship is an apprenticeship:
 (a) through which a person is undertaking a qualification:
 (i) at a level prescribed by the rules; and
 (ii) leading to an occupation or a qualification specified on the Australian Apprenticeships Priority List; and
 (b) which meets any other requirements prescribed by the rules.
 (3) The rules may prescribe circumstances in which a person is, or is not, taken to be undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship.
 (4) Without limiting the circumstances that may be prescribed for the purposes of subsection (3), the rules may prescribe, as circumstances in which a person is taken to be undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship, the period between:
 (a) the time a person successfully completes a qualifying apprenticeship; and
 (b) the time a designated State/Territory training authority notifies the Secretary that the person has done so.