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Student Loan Scheme Act 2011

Matters of general application and miscellaneous matters - Matters of general application

193A: Contact person may be requested to assist

You could also call this:

"Government can ask someone you know to help find you if you owe money on your student loan"

If you owe money on your student loan and the government doesn't know where you are, they might ask someone to help find you. This person is called your contact person.

The government can tell someone that they've been chosen as your contact person. If the government needs to find you, they can ask this person to either tell them your address or to ask you to tell the government your address.

Your address details include your postal address, email address, and phone number. The government can only ask for help if your contact person agrees to it.

The government can't tell your contact person anything about you except what they need to know to help find you. They can only use the information they get to manage student loans.

Your contact person can be someone you chose when you applied for your loan, or someone you picked later. The government has to follow these rules to protect your privacy while still being able to contact you about your loan.

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Part 5Matters of general application and miscellaneous matters
Matters of general application

193AContact person may be requested to assist

  1. The Commissioner may at any time advise a person that the person has been nominated as the contact person of a borrower.

  2. If, in any case where a borrower has an unpaid amount, the Commissioner does not have the current address details for the borrower or is uncertain as to the accuracy of the address details for the borrower, the Commissioner may request the borrower's contact person—

  3. to notify the Commissioner of the borrower's current address details; or
    1. to ask the borrower to notify the Commissioner of the borrower's current address details.

      1. In this section and section 193C, address details, in relation to a borrower, means—

      2. all postal addresses for the borrower; and
        1. all electronic addresses for the borrower (if the borrower has any); and
          1. all telephone numbers for the borrower (if the borrower has any).

            1. The Commissioner may not make a request under subsection (2) unless the contact person confirms that he or she is willing to act as the borrower's contact person.

            2. The Commissioner—

            3. may not disclose any matters about the borrower other than those required to be disclosed for the purposes of this section; and
              1. may use any information obtained from a request under this section only for the purposes of this Act.

                1. In this section and section 193B, contact person, in relation to a borrower, means—

                2. an individual whose name has been notified under section 16A in relation to the borrower; or
                  1. an individual nominated by the borrower under section 107A or 193B.

                    Notes
                    • Section 193A: inserted (with effect on 1 April 2012), on , by section 48 of the Student Loan Scheme Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 32).
                    • Section 193A(3): amended, on , by section 10 of the Student Loan Scheme Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 6).