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     (4)                    The maximum period of six months applies to students undertaking either full‑time student load or part-time student load.

1.6.10  RTP Stipend Base and Maximum Value

     (1)                    RTP Stipend values are payable at the applicable rate from 1 January to
     31 December for the relevant RTP Grant Year.

     (2)                    For the 2017 Grant Year, the base full-time RTP Stipend rate is $26,682 and the maximum full-time RTP Stipend rate is $41,682.

     (3)                    The base and maximum full-time RTP Stipend rates for any subsequent year are the same as the RTP Stipend rates for the preceding year, indexed in accordance with the method set out in Part 5-6 of the Act.

     (4)                    The department will advise HEPs in writing of the value of the base full-time and maximum full-time RTP Stipend rates for a Grant Year by 1 October of the preceding year.

1.6.15  Leave Entitlements for RTP Stipend recipients

     (1)                   Students are entitled to receive up to 20 working days' paid recreation leave and ten working days' paid sick leave for each year of the RTP Stipend. These leave entitlements may be accrued over the life of the RTP Stipend but will be forfeited when the RTP Stipend is terminated.

     (2)                   Students are entitled to receive additional paid sick leave of up to a total of 60 working days during the duration of the RTP Stipend for periods of illness where the student has insufficient sick leave entitlements available under paragraph (1), provided that a medical certificate has been provided by the student to the HEP.

     (3)                   Sick leave entitlements (including additional sick leave) may also be used to cover leave for students with family caring responsibilities, subject to the usual practice of the HEP.

     (4)                   Students who have completed 12 months of their RTP Stipend are entitled to a maximum of 60 working days paid maternity leave during the duration of the RTP Stipend. Subject to the usual practice of the HEP, paid leave may also be approved if the student has adopted a child.

     (5)                    Students who are partners of women giving birth while receiving a RTP Stipend and who have completed 12 months of their RTP Stipend, may be entitled to a period of paid parenting leave at the time of the birth or adoption, subject to the usual practice of the HEP.

1.6.20  Additional Conditions for RTP Stipends

If a RTP Stipend is provided as part of a RTP Scholarship specified in subparagraph 1.6.1(2), the following additional conditions apply:

     (1)                    A HEP must offer each student selected by the HEP to receive a RTP Stipend a stipend rate at least equal to the base full-time RTP Stipend rate and no more than the maximum full-time