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577. Payment not payable because of repeated failure
577.(1) General
577.(1) Austudy payment is not payable to a person, for the period of 8 weeks starting in accordance with section 577A, if the person commits an austudy participation failure (the repeated failure), having committed austudy participation failures (the earlier failures) on 2 or more other occasions during the period of 12 months preceding that failure.
577.(2) Reasonable excuse etc.
577.(2) Disregard any earlier failure that is a failure to which subsection 576A(1) does not apply because of subsection 576A(2).
577.(3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the repeated failure if the Secretary is for any other reason satisfied that subsection (1) should not apply to the failure.
History
S.577 inserted by Act No. 154, 2005, by s.3, Schedule 6, Part 1(2);
