28Transitional arrangements for Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships

28 Transitional arrangements for Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships

(1) A higher education provider must offer an Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship other than a preserved Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship to an Indigenous student if, in the year before the commencement of these Guidelines, the student satisfies the following criteria: (a) the student received an earlier Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship for an enabling course that was awarded by the provider; and (b) the student successfully completed the enabling course. (2) Subject to these Guidelines, a higher education provider must offer a preserved Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship to an Indigenous student if, before the commencement of these Guidelines, the student satisfied the following criteria: (a) the student was in receipt of an earlier Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship that was awarded by the provider for a higher education award; and (b) the student was enrolled in, or was on approved leave from, the course of study for which the student received the scholarship; and (c) the student had been enrolled in the course of study for no more than seven study periods in the course of study for which the student received the scholarship. (3) The preserved Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship that a higher education provider must offer to an Indigenous student under subsection (2) must be for the same general purpose, and equivalent value to, the earlier scholarship. (4) A higher education provider that offers a preserved Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship under subsection (2) must offer the scholarship only on the following conditions: (a) subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), the scholarship has the same conditions as the earlier Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship; and (b) the scholarship is available for the study periods (remaining study periods) that the scholarship recipient had not used under the earlier Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship; and (c) any scholarship amount that remains to be utilised is to be forfeited if the scholarship recipient: (i) defers his or her course of study for more than two study periods; or (ii) fails to use the remaining study periods by 30 June 2021. (5) A higher education provider that offers an Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship to an Indigenous student under subsection (1) or a preserved Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarship to an Indigenous student under subsection (2) must award the scholarship to the student if the student accepts the offer in writing. (6) A higher education provider must notify an administering officer in writing of the matters specified in column 2 of the table in respect of the expected award of preserved Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships by the day specified in column 2 of the table.

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:5.35pt; border-collapse:collapse"><thead><tr><td colspan="3" style="width:399.6pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif; font-weight:bold">Notice of expected award of preserved Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:44.55pt; border-bottom:1pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif; font-weight:bold">Column 1</span></p></td><td style="width:205.15pt; border-bottom:1pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif; font-weight:bold">Column 2</span></p></td><td style="width:128.5pt; border-bottom:1pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif; font-weight:bold">Column 3</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:44.55pt; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif; font-weight:bold">Item</span></p></td><td style="width:205.15pt; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif; font-weight:bold">Notice</span></p></td><td style="width:128.5pt; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:9.5pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif; font-weight:bold">Date</span></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="width:44.55pt; border-top:1pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif">1.</span></p></td><td style="width:205.15pt; border-top:1pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-left:1.75pt; text-indent:-1.75pt; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif">Notice of the amount of any potential ISSP grant the provider expects to use to award preserved Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships in the grant year</span></p></td><td style="width:128.5pt; border-top:1pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:9.5pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif">Last business day of October of the </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif">year before the </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif">grant year</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:44.55pt; border-top:1pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif">2.</span></p></td><td style="width:205.15pt; border-top:1pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-left:1.75pt; text-indent:-1.75pt; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif">Notice of the amount of an ISSP grant the provider expects to use to award preserved Indigenous Commonwealth Scholarships in the grant year</span></p></td><td style="width:128.5pt; border-top:1pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; font-size:9.5pt"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', serif">Last business day of April of the grant year</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>