Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01295:reg:4:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01295
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 9/35)
Character Range: 27893–30636

progress rules in Part 2.11A of the Social Security Act 1991 in respect of tertiary students (if Part 2.11A had applied to the student), it may determine that the student cease to receive benefits under the Scheme.
Note: The "progress rules" are mentioned in section 569H of the Social Security Act 1991.
 2.5.3 Benefits withdrawn under paragraphs 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 may be restored by the Commission if it is satisfied that the student has resumed satisfactory progress.

2.6  Place of Study
 2.6.1 Subject to paragraph 2.6.2 or unless the Repatriation Commission considers the particular circumstances of a student to be exceptional, to be eligible for benefits under the Scheme a student must:
 (a) be undertaking study within Australia; or
 (b) have made application, or have been accepted, to undertake study within Australia.
 2.6.2 Subject to 2.6.3, if a student is eligible for an education allowance under PART 3 for secondary education (secondary student) or tertiary education (tertiary student), and the student undertakes a course of study outside Australia, then for the period of the study:
 (a) if the student is a secondary student — the student is eligible for an education allowance at the rate under 3.8.1(c) for a secondary student who lives away from home; or
 (b) if the student is a tertiary student — the student is eligible for an education allowance at the rate under 3.8.3 for a tertiary student who lives away from home.
 2.6.3 Payment of an education allowance under 2.6.2 is subject to the following conditions:
 (a) the student must not, in the Commission's opinion, have left Australia permanently;
 (b) the course of study outside Australia is part of a full‑time course the student has undertaken in Australia; and
 (c) the allowance is payable only for the duration of the course the student has undertaken in Australia.
Note: rent assistance, where the student is outside Australia, is covered by paragraph 5.5 and is limited to rent assistance for the student's premises in Australia and for a maximum period of 26 weeks.

2.7  Course coverage
 2.7.1 A student may receive benefits under the Scheme if the student is undertaking on a full‑time basis:
 (a) a course of general primary or secondary education; or
 (b) an approved full‑time tertiary or technical and further education course; or
 (c) a course of tertiary study that would not qualify the student for a youth allowance under Part 2.11 of the Social Security Act 1991, but which:
 (i) the Commission considers essential for achievement of the  student's vocational aim; and
 (ii) no other course of tertiary study that would qualify the student for a youth allowance under Part 2.11 of the Social Security Act 1991 is suitable or available.
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