21Offering Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships

21 Offering Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships

(1) A higher education provider that offers an Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship to an Indigenous student must determine the value, purpose, duration and other conditions of the scholarship. (2) When making an offer of an Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship to an Indigenous student, a higher education provider must inform the student that if the student accepts the offer the student may: (a) be required to inform any of the following persons of the receipt of the scholarship, depending on his or her personal circumstances: (i) an employee of the Human Services Department; (ii) an employee of the Department administered by the Minister administering the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986; (iii) an employee of the Department administered by the Minister administering section 258 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004; and (b) not qualify for certain other forms of Commonwealth assistance. (3) The amount of an ISSP grant a higher education provider must use to: (a) offer Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships to Indigenous students from remote areas and regional areas for the grant year; and (b) meet payment obligations of the provider for the grant year, if any, in respect of Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships that the provider awarded to Indigenous students from remote areas and regional areas in a previous grant year, must be at least 95 per cent of the total value of Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship payments that the provider made to Indigenous students from remote areas and regional areas for the previous grant year, unless otherwise agreed by the Minister in writing.