Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ACT 1988 No. 2 of 1989 - SECT 39

39. (1) An institution shall, in respect of each semester, require each
contributing student who is undertaking a designated course of study at the
institution on the census date in respect of that course of study in respect
of that semester to pay to the institution in respect of that semester a
contribution, ascertained in accordance with this section, towards the cost of
the provision of that course of study.

(2) Each institution shall determine, in accordance with guidelines issued by
the Minister, in respect of each designated course of study that may be
undertaken at the institution in a year to which this Chapter applies, a
standard student load that represents an equivalent full time student unit.

(3) The contribution that a contributing student who is undertaking a
designated course of study at an institution on the census date in respect of
that course of study in respect of a semester is to be required by the
institution to pay is the amount ascertained in accordance with the formula
ACC X SL, where:
ACC
is the annual course contribution in respect of the year in which the
semester occurs; and
SL
is the student's student load in respect of that course of study in that
semester, expressed as a proportion of the standard student load in
respect of that course of study in the year in which that semester occurs.

(4) If an amount ascertained under subsection (3) is an amount consisting of a
number of whole dollars and a number of cents, the number of cents shall be
disregarded.