Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00916:reg:4:p27
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00916
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 27/33)
Character Range: 72823–75582

A person is not qualified for a relocation scholarship payment if one or more of the following circumstances apply to the person in the period of 12 months (or shorter period determined by the Commission) ending immediately before the person's qualification time:
 (a) the person has qualified for a relocation scholarship payment; or
 (b) the person has qualified for a payment under the ABSTUDY Scheme known as an "ABSTUDY relocation scholarship payment"; or
 (c) the person has qualified for a payment known as a "relocation scholarship payment" under Part 2.11B of the Social Security Act 1991; or
 (d) the person has qualified for a payment known as a "relocation scholarship payment" under the scheme made under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 known as the Veterans' Children Education Scheme; or
 (e) the person has received the amount or value of a disqualifying accommodation scholarship or the person was entitled to the amount or value of such a scholarship but has not received the full entitlement only because the scholarship was suspended.

Commission may determine period less than 12 months
 7.3.5 For 7.3.4, the Commission may determine a period in relation to a person that is at least 3 months but less than 12 months if the Commission considers that the determination would enable the person to qualify for a relocation scholarship payment on or near 1 January in a year.
 7.3.6 For 7.3.5, the Commission must not make a determination if the effect of the determination would be to enable the person to receive more than 2 relocation scholarship payments in a period of 2 successive Calendar years.
Note: The Acts Interpretation Act 1901 defines Calendar year (s.22)

Amount of relocation scholarship payment
 7.3.7
 (1) The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $4,000 (or the amount equal to the amount, including as indexed, under subsection 592L(1) of the Social Security Act 1991 (in force from time to time), whichever is higher) if the person has not received a student relocation payment (see subparagraph (5)) before.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if:

           (a) the person has, at any time before the Calendar year containing the qualification time, undertaken full‑time study in a course that, had the person undertaken it at the qualification time, would have been an approved scholarship course at that time; and
Note: The Acts Interpretation Act 1901 defines Calendar year (s.22)
 (b) at a time that was both while the person was undertaking that study and more than 6 months before the qualification time, the person either:
 (i) was in receipt of a homeless student education allowance under the Scheme; or
 (ii) did not receive a homeless student education allowance under the Scheme but