Student Assistance (Education Institutions and Courses) Determination 2009 (No. 2)
10Tertiary courses
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10 Tertiary courses
(1) For paragraph 5D (1) (a) of the Act, a tertiary course is a full-time course:
(a) that is:
(i) specified in Column 1 of the table in Schedule 2 to this instrument and provided by an education institution specified for that course in Column 2 of that table; and
(ii) for a course specified in item 5 or 8 of that table —an approved course within the meaning of the VET Student Loans Act 2016; and
(iii) for a course specified in item 10 of that table—to the extent that the course consists of study in a VET course, an approved course within the meaning of the VET Student Loans Act 2016; or
(aa) to which section 11 of this instrument applies; or
(b) that is:
(i) accredited at Masters level; and
(ii) specified in Column 2 of the table in Schedule 3 to this instrument; and
(iii) provided by the education institution specified for that course in Column 1 of that table.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a course that meets the requirements of paragraph (1)(a), (aa) or (b) and is not a full-time course is a tertiary course for the purposes of paragraph 1061PC of the Social Security Act 1991.
(3) For paragraph 5D (1) (b) of the Act, a unit of a course mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) is part of a tertiary course.