AUSTUDY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1996 NO. 21 

AUSTUDY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1996 NO. 21 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.  Amendment  
2.  New Chapter 6B  


1996 No. 21 AUSTUDY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 1
1. Amendment


  1.1 The AUSTUDY Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.
(NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act
1901, s. 48.)


1996 No. 21 AUSTUDY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 2
2. New Chapter 6B


  2.1 After Chapter 6A, insert:
  Chapter 6B
  Schooling Incidentals Allowance
  103
  Interpretation
      "103. In this Chapter:
      'SIA' means the Schooling Incidentals Allowance payable under this
      Chapter.
  104
  Who can get SIA?
      "104. (1) A student can get SIA in a year if:
      (a) he or she is a secondary student; and
      (b) at some time between 1 January and 31 March in that year, he
      or she qualifies as independent under regulation 72, 73, 74, 75
      or 76.
      "(2) A student cannot get SIA in a year if:
      (a) he or she has already been paid SIA in that year; or
      (b) he or she has been paid a Schooling Incidentals Allowance or
      an Incidentals Allowance under the ABSTUDY Scheme (also known as
      the Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme) in that year.
  105
  How much is SIA?
      "105. (1) SIA for the year 1996 is a single payment of $300.
      "(2) SIA for a year later than 1996 is a single payment of the
      amount worked out by multiplying SIA for the year before that
      later year by the indexation factor for that later year.
      "(3) For the purposes of subregulation (2), the indexation factor
      is identical to the indexation factor applied in section 12ZZA of
      the Act for the purposes of that section.
  106
  How might an overpayment of SIA arise?
      "106. If a student has been paid SIA in a year, and he or she has
      not begun to study in the course for which that amount was paid by
      the end of the second week of classes in the first term or
      semester of the course, the amount paid is taken to be a student
      assistance overpayment for the purposes of Part 6 of the Act.".


- NOTES


1996 No. 21*1* AUSTUDY REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT)

- Dated 29 January 1996


*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 January 1996.

*2* Statutory Rules 1990 No. 443 as amended by 1991 No. 480; 1992 Nos. 24 and
399; 1993 No. 367; 1994 Nos. 13, 91 and 409; 1995 No. 132 and 393.