{"id":"F2020L00322","name":"Legislation (Deferral of Sunsetting—Student Assistance Regulations) Certificate 2020","slug":"legislation-deferral-of-sunsetting-student-assistance-regulations-certificate-2020","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":440426,"registerId":"F2020L00322-fast-fetch-1775956053272","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Legislation (Deferral of Sunsetting—Student Assistance Regulations) Certificate 2020","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nLegislation (Deferral of Sunsetting—Student Assistance Regulations) Certificate 2020\n\nI, Christian Porter, Attorney‑General, make the following certificate.\n\nDated 21 March 2020\n\nChristian Porter\n\nAttorney‑General\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Deferral of sunsetting\n\n5 Repeal of this instrument\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Legislation (Deferral of Sunsetting—Student Assistance Regulations) Certificate 2020.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 27 March 2020\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under paragraph 51(1)(c) of the Legislation Act 2003.\n\n4  Deferral of sunsetting\n\n  The Student Assistance Regulations 2003, for which the sunsetting day is 1 April 2020, is repealed by section 51 of the Legislation Act 2003 on 1 April 2021.\n\n5  Repeal of this instrument\n\n  This instrument is repealed at the start of 2 April 2021.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2119},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The certificate performs a narrow, purely administrative function exactly as described. It does not alter the substantive content or policy scope of the Student Assistance Regulations; it merely delays their automatic repeal by 12 months to prevent a legislative vacuum."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument (only 5 sections)","Single substantive operation (deferring the sunsetting date)","No defined terms, schedules, or formulae","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Only one external statutory reference (the Legislation Act 2003)"],"plain_english_summary":"This certificate temporarily extends the Student Assistance Regulations 2003 by one year, moving their sunsetting from 1 April 2020 to 1 April 2021 and keeping the payment rules for Youth Allowance, Austudy and student disability support in force.  \n\nIt preserves legal certainty for students, education providers and Services Australia during the COVID-19 period and expires automatically on 2 April 2021."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/legislation-deferral-of-sunsetting-student-assistance-regulations-certificate-2020","history":"/api/acts/legislation-deferral-of-sunsetting-student-assistance-regulations-certificate-2020/history","analysis":"/api/acts/legislation-deferral-of-sunsetting-student-assistance-regulations-certificate-2020/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/legislation-deferral-of-sunsetting-student-assistance-regulations-certificate-2020/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/legislation-deferral-of-sunsetting-student-assistance-regulations-certificate-2020/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/legislation-deferral-of-sunsetting-student-assistance-regulations-certificate-2020/documents"}}