8Qualification

8 Qualification

Qualification for Australian apprenticeship support loan (1) A person is qualified for Australian apprenticeship support loan if: (a) the person is an Australian resident; and (b) the person is undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship; and (c) the person has notified the Secretary of the person’s tax file number; and (d) the person meets any other conditions prescribed by the rules. When a person is undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship (2) A qualifying apprenticeship is an apprenticeship: (a) through which a person is undertaking a qualification: (i) at a level prescribed by the rules; and (ii) leading to an occupation or a qualification specified on the Australian Apprenticeships Priority List; and (b) which meets any other requirements prescribed by the rules. (3) The rules may prescribe circumstances in which a person is, or is not, taken to be undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship. (4) Without limiting the circumstances that may be prescribed for the purposes of subsection (3), the rules may prescribe, as circumstances in which a person is taken to be undertaking a qualifying apprenticeship, the period between: (a) the time a person successfully completes a qualifying apprenticeship; and (b) the time a designated State/Territory training authority notifies the Secretary that the person has done so.