Youth Allowance (Satisfactory Study Progress) Guidelines 2014
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15 Secondary courses
(1) The Secretary could form the opinion that a person enrolled in a secondary course is not making satisfactory progress towards completing that course if, on five or more days in a school term, the person has been absent from school without a reasonable excuse.
(2) Despite subsection (1), the Secretary could form the opinion that a person who is enrolled in a secondary course and who, on five or more days in a school term, has been absent from school without a reasonable excuse, is making satisfactory progress towards completing that course if:
(a) the person enters into a Youth Allowance Activity Agreement, a term of which is that the person will not be absent from school, without a reasonable excuse, on five or more days in a school term; and
(b) at all times throughout the secondary course, the person satisfies the Secretary that they are complying with the terms of the Youth Allowance Activity Agreement.