(1) The body administering the Australian education institution must not exclude the member from the course, or subject the member to any other disadvantage, because he or she did not complete a requirement of the course or any assessment for the course:

(a)

while rendering the defence service; or

(b)

otherwise because of having rendered the defence service.

(2) The body administering the Australian education institution must:

(a)

allow the member to re-enrol (if necessary) in the course; and

(b)

allow the member to resume the course at a point that the body considers appropriate; and

(c)

ensure that the conditions (if any) on the re-enrolment and resumption are the same as those that would have applied to a person who is not a member.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if, because of a change in the nature of courses offered by the institution since the member was previously enrolled:

(a)

it was not reasonable or practicable to allow the member to re-enrol or resume the course in which he or she was previously enrolled; and

(b)

the body administering the institution offered to enrol the member in another course that most closely corresponded to the course in which he or she was previously enrolled; and

(c)

the conditions on the re-enrolment and resumption were the most favourable that it was reasonable or practicable to offer the member.