Part VI. Part VI. CONDUCT OF EXAMINATIONS
3. Consequences of Non-payment
UNION FEE RULES 1. Interpretation
In these Rules unless the context otherwise indicates or requires:
'Full-time Student' means a student, including a member of staff of the Institute, who is enrolled at the Institute as a full-time student or such other person or persons as the Council may from time to time determine.
'Part-time Student' means a student, including a member of staff of the Institute, who is enrolled at the Institute as a part-time student or such other person or persons as the Council may from time to time determine.
'Sandwich Student' means a student, including a member of staff of the Institute, who in a particular academic year is enrolled at the Institute on the basis of attendance on a full-time basis for one of two semesters, and is required to undertake specified practical training, with or without, part-time study for the remaining semester.
'Union Fees' means such fees as may be prescribed by the Council for membership of the Queensland Institute of Technology Union.
'Enrolment' means application for registration as a student of the Institute, and includes both New Enrolments and Re-enrolments.
2. Fees to be Paid
Unless the Council otherwise directs, Union Fees shall be paid at the time of submitting an enrolment or re-enrolment, on or before the following dates:
(a) in the case of a student applying for re-enrolment or of a student applying for enrolment for the first time in a Post- graduate or Certificate course - by the date indicated in the Institute Calendar.
(b) in the case of a student applying for enrolment for the first time in a degree, diploma, or associate diploma course - by the date specified on the Acceptance of Offer Form forwarded to the student.
(iv) Where a student has lodged an enrolment with the Enrolments Section of the Institute and Union Fees due and payable by the student have only been paid in part, the Registrar may refuse to accept or process such enrolment, unless the balance of fees, notified to the student on a Fee Payment Form, have been paid by a date determined by the Registrar and notified to the student.
(v) Without limiting the effect of any of the preceding Sub-Rules of this Rule, if Union Fees payable by a student remain unpaid within five weeks of the commencement of the first semester of the academic year in respect of which they are payable, the Registrar may cancel such students enrolment at any time thereafter.
4. Refund of Fees on Voluntary Cancellation of Enrolment
A student who not later than six weeks after the first day of a semester gives proper written notice to the Registrar of withdrawal of his enrolment shall be entitled to a refund of the Union Fees.
Such refund shall be made by the GIT Union upon receipt by the Union Office of written notice from the student withdrawing not later than eight weeks after the first day of the semester for which a Union Fees Refund is sought, and upon the surrender of any current QIT Union Membership Card.
SCHEDULE OF CHARGES AFFECTING STUDENTS
1. Union Fees - By-law No. 11 specifies the following Schedule of Union Fees.
Full-time students . . . $40.00 p.a.
Part-time internal students . . . $20.00 p.a.
Part-time external students . . . $2.00 p.a.
Sandwich course students . . . $20.00 p.a.
All other members . . . ... $20.00 p.a.
An unregistered student shall be required to pay the appropriate full-time or part-time fee corresponding to his attendance status.
A student undertaking a thesis only shall be required to pay the appropriate full-time or part-time fee corresponding to his attendance status.
2. Admission, Enrolment, and Examination: Council has approved the following Schedule of Charges -
Late lodgement of Enrolment Application - within two (2) weeks of closing date set out
in the Institute Calendar . . . $5.00 for applications received more than two (2)
weeks after the closing date set out in the
Institute Calendar . . . $20.00 Refundable Deposit for review of Special
Consideration decision . . . $10.00
Review of Examination Results . . . $2.00 per paper with a maximum of $4 per subject.
Statement of Results . . . $2.00 3. Deposit System for Use of Laboratory Facilities
(a) A student enrolled in any subject included in the 'Schedule of Subjects relating to Laboratory Deposits' which the Registrar may vary from time to time, shall deposit $30 for the use of laboratory facilities.
(b) A student shall be required to pay only one deposit irrespective of the number of such subjects included in an enrolment.
(c) At the end of the year the deposit shall be refunded to the student less the cost of any breakages which have not been made good.
PARKING REGULATIONS
Council has approved regulations relating to the parking of motor vehicles on campus.
(a) A member of staff or a student shall not be permitted to park a vehicle within the grounds of the Institute unless such person has previously made application for a parking permit and this permit has been granted.
(b) The privilege of parking within the grounds shall be subject to such conditions as may be imposed at the time the permit is issued to the applicant.
(c) An application for permission to park a vehicle within the grounds of the Institute shall be made on a form prescribed and available at the Institute Security Office.
(d) For a breach in the parking of a vehicle the Director may revoke the permit for a specified period or for the remainder of the acaclemic year.
(e) For a breach by a person not possessing a parking permit in the parking of a vehicle, the Director may arrange for the vehicle to be removed from the grounds of the Institute and the person shall be required to pay the cost of such removal.
PARKING APPLICATIONS
In accordance with paragraph headed 'Parking Regulations' section (a), the priority criteria for the granting of parking permits to be applied is as follows:-
Staff
(a) Any person who, because of physical disability, must use private transport to commute to the Institute shall be granted a permit.
(b) All full-time or part-time members of the teaching staff (and those on academically equated salaries including Director, Deputy Director and Heads of Schools) shall be granted a permit.
(c) All other full-time and part-time staff shall be considered for a permit on the basis of need, having regard to the following factors:- (i) Special work circumstances (such as rostered overtime) which
may make use of public transport inappropriate;
(ii) Inaccessibility to direct public transport and distance to be travelled;
(iii) Willingness to provide transport for other Institute staff or students;
(iv) In cases judged as being of equal merit on the basis o:= need, seniority according to years of continuous service irrespective of the staff member's employment classification.
Students
(a) Any student who, because of physical disability, must use private transport to commute to the Institute shall be granted a permit.
(b) Inaccessibility to direct public transport and distance to be travelled.
(c) Willingness to provide transport for other Institute students or staff.
(d) In cases judged as being of equal merit on the basis of need, seniority - a final year student shall have priority over a student who is in the second last year of his/her course and so on.
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