Australian Government

Federal Register of Legislation

HELP Debtor Guidelines (Health Practitioners) 2023

In force

Administered by

Department of Education

This item is authorised by the following title:

Higher Education Support Act 2003

Latest version

F2023L01130

30 August 2023

Table of contents

Part 1 – Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
- Part 2 – Meaning of location-preferred HELP debtor (health practitioner)
5 Registration or accreditation of health practitioner
6 Work carried out by the health practitioner
7 Rural, remote or very remote areas
8 Minimum hours of work for a health practitioner
10 Eligible courses of study
- Part 3 – Reducing indexation of accumulated HELP debts 11 Requirements for the reduction of the indexation of accumulated HELP debts For the purposes of subparagraph 144-5(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, the other requirement that a person must meet, for the purposes of determining that the indexation of their accumulated HELP debt for a course of study is to be reduced in relation to a financial year, is that the person resides in a rural, remote or very remote area as defined in section 7. Part 4 – Reducing accumulated HELP debts
12 Requirements for the reduction of accumulated HELP debts