Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1990 No. 443 AUSTUDY REGULATIONS - REG 80

80. (1) A course is a special course if it is:

   (a)  a course listed in Schedule 3 taken at its specified educational
        institution; or

   (b)  a course leading to the award of a formal qualification recognised by
        the secondary education authority of the State or Territory in which
        the student's institution is situated, but excluding matriculation,
        other general studies and tertiary courses; or

   (c)  a course at year 11 or 12 level that includes study of a subject that
        a student must pass to gain entry to a particular tertiary course
        approved for the AUSTUDY scheme (not merely to a particular subject of
        study) which the student intends to undertake and to which he or she
        is reasonably likely to gain entry; or

   (d)  a course below year 11 level that includes substantial agricultural
        studies if the student qualified for a boarding allowance under the
        Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme at the end of the 1988 school
        year; or

   (e)  a course of specialised remedial education that the student is
        recommended in writing to undertake by a tertiary-qualified
        psychologist or by a guidance officer of a secondary education
        authority of a State or Territory or a non-government secondary
        education authority; or

   (f)  in Victoria, a TAFE course at year 10, 11 or 12 level, a preliminary
        year course for a diploma or degree, or a tertiary orientation
        program, if the parents of the student live in Victoria outside the
        metropolitan area as defined in subsection 201 (1) of the
        Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works  Act 1958 of Victoria.

(2) The principal home of the student's parents must be isolated in terms of
regulation 78 from the educational institution offering the student's course
and from educational institutions offering courses of a similar kind.