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SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 47DB

Student start - up loans

  (1)   If a person is qualified for a student start - up loan for a qualification period:

  (a)   the loan becomes payable to the person on the day the Secretary determines the person's claim for the loan; and

  (b)   the Secretary must pay the amount of the loan to the person as soon as reasonably practicable after that day.

  (2)   Despite subsection   (1), if:

  (a)   a person is qualified for a student start - up loan for a qualification period because the person is receiving youth allowance; and

  (b)   the whole or a part of the person's instalment of youth allowance is paid to a parent of the person, under section   45 of this Act, in respect of a period that includes the day the Secretary determines the person's claim for the loan;

the Secretary may pay the whole, or the same proportion, of the person's loan to that parent or to any other person.



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