Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 142.20

    If:

  (a)   the * Secretary has determined, for the purposes of section   142 - 15, that a person's * accumulated HELP debt is to be reduced by an amount; and

  (b)   the amount exceeds the sum of:

  (i)   the amount required to discharge the total debt that the person owed to the Commonwealth under this Chapter; and

  (ii)   the total amount of the person's primary tax debts (within the meaning of Part   IIB of the Taxation Administration Act 1953 );

the Commonwealth must refund to the person an amount equal to that excess.