Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:737
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 737
Character Range: 1031941–1033295

737  Full‑time students
 (1) Subject to subsection (3), a special benefit is not payable to a person:
 (a) who has turned 18; or
 (b) who satisfies both of the following:
 (i) the person has not turned 16; and
 (ii) the person is not a SPB homeless person;
if the person is enrolled in a full‑time course of education or of vocational training.
Note: For SPB homeless person see section 739.

Period for which benefit not payable
 (2) The period for which a special benefit is not payable under subsection (1) is the period that:
 (a) starts when the person starts the course; and
 (b) finishes when the person:
 (i) completes the course; or
 (ii) abandons the course; or
 (iii) gives notice to the provider of the course that the person:
 (A) wishes to withdraw from the course; or
 (B) wishes to withdraw from such number of subjects that the person's course will no longer be a full‑time course; and
 (c) includes periods of vacation.

Subsection (1) does not apply in certain cases
 (3) Subsection (1) does not prevent a special benefit from being payable for any period during which:
 (a) a person is enrolled in a course of study that the Secretary has required the person to undertake under section 736; or
 (b) the person is engaged in a course undertaken under an employment pathway plan; or
 (c) the person has deferred a course of education.