Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00140:clause:1_10:p17
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00140
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 10 (pt 17/31)
Character Range: 557858–560799

may use that tax file number for the purposes referred to in subsection (5).

Purposes of disclosure or use
 (5) The purposes are to assist in the development of the *HELP program, or the administration or future administration of the HELP program, including by:
 (a) policy formation; and
 (b) financial planning and projection; and
 (c) program design; and
 (d) conducting research.

Definitions
 (6) The HELP program means the program consisting of:
 (a) grants to higher education providers under Part 2‑2; and
 (b) assistance provided to students under Chapter 3 or Schedule 1A or the VET Student Loans Act 2016; and
 (c) repayment of debts under Chapter 4, or under the VET Student Loans Act 2016, incurred in relation to that assistance.
 (7) HELP program Commonwealth officer means:
 (a) the *Secretary; or
 (b) the *Commissioner; or
 (c) a *Commonwealth officer specified to be a HELP program Commonwealth officer under subsection (8).
 (8) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, specify that a *Commonwealth officer, or a Commonwealth officer in a specified class, is a *HELP program Commonwealth officer for the purposes of paragraph (7)(c).
 (9) For the purposes of this section, *Higher Education Support Act information includes VET information (within the meaning of the VET Student Loans Act 2016).

180‑30  Use of information to conduct surveys
  A *Commonwealth officer may use *Higher Education Support Act information in order to conduct a survey of staff, students or former students of higher education providers or *VET providers for any of the following purposes:
 (a) improving the provision of higher education or vocational education and training;
 (b) research relating to the provision of higher education or vocational education and training, including research relating to:
 (i) quality assurance; or
 (ii) planning the provision of higher education or vocational education and training.

180‑35  This Division does not limit disclosure or use of information
  This Division does not limit the disclosure or use of *Higher Education Support Act information.
Note: The disclosure or use of Higher Education Support Act information may also be authorised in other circumstances. For example, see Division 179, Division 14 of Schedule 1A and the Privacy Act 1988.

Division 181—Protection, disclosure and use of Australia's Economic Accelerator program information

181‑1  What this Division is about
      An officer who discloses, copies or records information obtained or created by the officer for the purposes of the Australia's Economic Accelerator program, other than in the course of official employment, commits an offence if the information is personal information, or the officer's actions are likely to cause competitive detriment to a person or found an action for breach of confidence. This is the case unless an exception in this Division applies.

181‑5  Object of this Division
  The object