(1) Subject to subsection (2), a jobseeker payment is not payable to a person who is enrolled in a full - time course of education or of vocational training for the period that:
(a) starts when the person starts the course; and
(b) finishes when the person:
(i) completes the course; or
(ii) abandons the course; or
(iii) gives notice to the provider of the course that the person:
(A) wishes to withdraw from the course; or
(B) wishes to withdraw from such number of subjects that the person's course will no longer be a full - time course; and
(c) includes periods of vacation.
(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent a jobseeker payment from being payable for any period during which:
(b) the person is engaged in a course undertaken under an employment pathway plan; or
(c) the person has deferred a course of education.