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STUDENT ASSISTANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 39

Debts are recoverable by the Commonwealth

  (1)   If a person:

  (a)   has been paid an amount of a kind referred to in paragraph   (a), (aa) or (b) of the definition of debt in section   38; or

  (b)   incurs an amount referred to in paragraph   (c) of that definition;

the amount is a debt owed by the person to the Commonwealth.

  (2)   A debt that arises under subsection   (1) because of an ABSTUDY student start - up loan overpayment is taken to have arisen when the person is paid the loan to which the overpayment relates.


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