Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Modification Rules 2025
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Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Modification Rules 2025
I, Jason Clare, Minister for Education, make the following rules.
Dated 4/12/25
Jason Clare
Minister for Education
Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 Modification rules
1 Name
This instrument is the Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Modification Rules 2025.
2 Commencement
(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.
- Commencement information
- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
- Provisions Commencement Date/Details
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- The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered.
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
(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.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under subitem 85(1) of Schedule 1 to the Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Act 2025.
4 Definitions
In this instrument:
Act means the Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Act 2025.
5 Modification rules
(1) For the purposes of subitem 85(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act:
(a) provisions of the Higher Education Support Act 2003, as amended by Schedule 1 of the Act, that refer to 1 June 2025, are modified and apply as if a reference to 1 June 2025 were a reference to 3 June 2025; and
(b) provisions of the Australian Apprenticeship Support Loans Act 2014, as amended by Schedule 1 of the Act, that refer to 1 June 2025, are modified and apply as if a reference to 1 June 2025 were a reference to 2 June 2025.
(c) provisions of the VET Student Loans Act 2016, as amended by Schedule 1 of the Act, that refer to 1 June 2025, are modified and apply as if a reference to 1 June 2025 were a reference to 2 June 2025.