Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1986 No. 381 STUDENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 30

30. After regulation 44E of the Student Assistance Regulations the following
regulation is inserted: Unapproved absence of prescribed secondary students

"44F. (1) In this regulation and in regulation 44G -
'correspondence course' means an approved secondary course provided by an
education institution that is undertaken by a student by correspondence and
not by attendance at that institution;
'day of unapproved absence', in relation to a prescribed secondary student who
is required, or proposes, to attend a secondary school, during a term when
undertaking an approved secondary course, means a day -

   (a)  that occurs during a term in the academic year applicable to
that course;

   (b)  on which supervision of the work of the student is provided
by that school;

   (c)  on which the student is absent from that school; and

   (d)  in respect of which the absence of the student from that
school was not caused by the student's illness or other
circumstances beyond the student's control;
'prescribed correspondence student' means a secondary student who is
undertaking, or proposes to undertake, a correspondence course, or part of a
correspondence course, and who does not attend, or propose to attend, a
secondary school on a normal daily basis when undertaking that course or that
part of that course;
'prescribed secondary student' means a secondary student who is undertaking,
or proposes to undertake, an approved secondary course, or part of such a
course, at a secondary school and who is not a prescribed correspondence
student.

"(2) Living allowance is not payable in respect of a prescribed secondary
student in respect of an approved secondary course that he or she is
undertaking, or proposes to undertake, during a term in respect of -

   (a)  where -

        (i)    the student has had less than 15 days of unapproved absence in
               that term before the first day on which living allowance would,
               but for this regulation, be payable in respect of the student
               in respect of that term - each additional day of unapproved
               absence that occurs after the first 15 days of unapproved
               absence in that term; or

        (ii)   the student has had 15 days or more of unapproved absence in
               that term before the first day on which living allowance would,
               but for this regulation, be payable in respect of the student
               in respect of that term - each additional day of unapproved
               absence that occurs on or after that first day; and

   (b)  the Saturday and Sunday first occurring after each successive group of
        5 of those additional days of unapproved absence referred to in
        sub-paragraph (a) (i) or (ii), as the case may be. Secondary students
        to enrol in approved secondary course

"44G. Living allowance is not payable in respect of a prescribed secondary
student in respect of an approved secondary course that the student is
undertaking, or proposes to undertake, at a secondary school during a period
in an academic year if the student is not enrolled to undertake during that
period an amount of work that the school regards as a full-time amount of
work.".