(1) A higher education provider must cancel a person's enrolment in a unit of study with the provider if the person:
(a) is enrolled as a * Commonwealth supported student in relation to the unit; and
(b) has not, on or before the * census date for the unit:
(i) completed, and signed, a * request for Commonwealth assistance in relation to the unit or, where the unit forms part of a * course of study undertaken with the provider, in relation to the course of study; and
(ii) given it to an * appropriate officer of the provider.
(2) A higher education provider must cancel a person's enrolment in a unit of study with the provider if the person:
(a) is enrolled as a * Commonwealth supported student in relation to the unit; and
(b) is not entitled to * HECS - HELP assistance for the unit; and
(c) has not, on or before the * census date for the unit, paid to the provider the whole of the person's * student contribution amount for the unit.
However, this subsection does not apply if the person's student contribution amount for the unit is a nil amount.
(3) A request for Commonwealth assistance , in relation to a person enrolling in a unit of study with a higher education provider (where access to the unit was not provided by * Open Universities Australia), means a document:
(a) in which the person requests the Commonwealth to provide assistance under this Act in relation to the unit or, where the unit forms part of a * course of study undertaken with the provider, in relation to the course of study; and
(b) that is in the form approved by the Minister.