VET Student Loans Rules 2016
100Commonwealth assistance notice
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100 Commonwealth assistance notice
(1) An approved course provider must give a notice that complies with this section to each student that: (a) is enrolled in a part of a course on the census day for the part of the course; and (b) has a VET student loan for the course. (2) The notice is a Commonwealth assistance notice. (3) The notice must include the title “Commonwealth Assistance Notice”. (4) The notice must include the following information: (a) the student’s name, residential address, phone number and email address; (b) the provider’s name; (c) any other business name that the provider uses; (d) the date of the notice; (e) the student’s student identification number as issued by the provider; (f) the student’s Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support Number; (g) the student’s student identifier; (h) the name of the course; (i) the name of the part of the course; (j) an identifying code for the part of the course; (k) the census day for the part of the course; (l) the student’s tuition fees for the part of the course; (m) the amount of the student’s tuition fees that are covered by a VET student loan; (n) the amount of VETSL debt the student will accrue (which could be up to 120% of the loan amount); (o) the amounts of any payments of the tuition fees made by the student; (p) information on the student’s right to request the correction of information contained in the notice in accordance with the provider’s information handling procedure. (5) The provider must give the notice to the student within the period: (a) starting on the census day for the part of the course; and (b) ending 28 days after the census day. (6) A notice may relate to more than one part of the course so long as subsection (5) is complied with for each part included in the notice. (7) The provider must send the notice: (a) to the student’s personal email address as advised by the student; or (b) to the student’s postal address as advised by the student; or (c) to the student by another method agreed to by the student.