SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 613 Full - time students

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 613

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (2), a jobseeker payment is not payable to a person who is enrolled in a full - time course of education or of vocational training for 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.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not prevent a jobseeker payment from being payable for any period during which:

  (b)   the person is engaged in a course undertaken under an employment pathway plan; or

  (c)   the person has deferred a course of education.