2010-2011

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Higher Education Support Amendment (Demand Driven Funding System and Other Measures) Bill 2011

 

 

(Amendment to be moved by Mr Pyne)

(1)     Schedule 2, page 13 (line 1 ) to page 23 (line 4), omit the Schedule, substitute:

Schedule 2—Amendments relating to student learning entitlement

 

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

1  Section 70-1

Omit “7 years”, substitute “8 years”.

2  Section 73-5

Repeal the section, substitute:

73-5  Ordinary SLE

Ordinary SLE for persons eligible immediately before 1 January 2012

             (1)   A person who was an eligible person immediately before 1 January 2012 has at the beginning of that day an an increase of 1 * EFTSL in the person’s *ordinary ESL.

Ordinary SLE accruing after 1 January 2012

             (2)   A person who (by birth or otherwise) becomes an * eligible person for the first time on or after 1 January 2012 has at the beginning of that day an * ordinary SLE equal to 8  * EFTSL.

Meaning of eligible person

             (3)   An eligible person is:

                     (a)   an Australian citizen; or

                     (b)   a citizen of New Zealand; or

                     (c)   a *permanent visa holder.

 

3  After Subsection 73-30(2)

Add:

             (3)  A person who ceased to be an eligible person before 1 January 2012 and next becomes an eligible person again on or after that date is taken to have had, immediately before so ceasing to be an eligible person, an *ordinary SLE that was 1 *EFTSL higher than the person actually had.

[restoring the Student Learning Entitlement limitation, but increasing the basic entitlement from 7 years to 8 years]