Heavy Equipment
Operator SCHOOL
Winfield, BC | Innisfail, AB | Edmonton, AB
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THE PRIVATE VOCATIONAL TRAINING ACT
RETENTION AND REPAYMENT OF FEES
(Extract -Alberta Regulation 341/2003)
(Consolidated up to 349/2009)
14(1) Subject to subsection (2), a licensee may require a prospective student to pay a registration fee of not more than $500 before that person’s vocational training begins.
(2) A licensee must not reqnire or accept payment of
(a) a registration fee in respect of a prospective student until that person has signed a student contract, or
(b) a tuition fee in respect of a prospective student before that person’s vocational training begins.
(2.1) Despite subsection (2)(b), a licensee may accept a tuition fee in respect of a prospective student before that person’s vocational training begins if the fee is paid by a third party approved by the Director.
(3) A licensee who receives a registration fee must credit the fee to unpaid tuition if the student commences the vocational training.
15 Notwithstanding anything in this Regulation, if a student terminates a student contract on or before the 4th business day after signing the contract, the licensee must refund any tuition or other fee paid by or on behalf of the student.
16(1) If a student terminates a student contract before the vocational training begins, the licensee is entitled to any registration fee paid by or on behalf of the student.
(2) The licensee must refund any registration fee that has been paid by or on behalf of the student if
(a) a licensee terminates a student contract before the vocational training begins, or
(b) the vocational training does not begin on the commencement date set out in the student contract.
17(1) If a student contract is terminated after the vocational training begins, the licensee is entitled to the following amounts of tuition:
(a) when 10% or less of the vocational training has been provided, 25% of the tuition;
(b) when more than 10% but 50% or less of the vocational training has been provided, 60% of the tuition;
(c) when more than 50% of the vocational training has been provided, 100% of the tuition.
(2) If a licensee has received a tuition fee in excess of the an1ount that the licensee is entitled to under subsection (1), the licensee must refund the excess amount.
(3) For the purpose of this section, vocational training provided by correspondence is provided as lessons are supplied, marked and returned to the student.
18(1) A licensee abandons the provision of vocational training under its licence if the licensee stops providing the vocational training before it is complete and
(a) there are student contracts for the vocational training that have not been terminated, or
(b) all student contracts for the vocational training have been terminated but one or more of the contracts were, in the Director’s opinion, terminated by the licensee so that the licensee would not be required to provide the vocational training.
(2) Notwithstanding sections 16 and 17, if a licensee abandons the provision of vocational training under its licence,
(a) the licensee must refund all tuition that has been paid in respect of the vocational training, and
(b) section 11 applies if the licensee is unable or refuses to make the refund.
(3) A licensee is deemed to have abandoned the provision of vocational training by correspondence iflessons cease to be supplied, marked and returned to the student.
(4) A licensee is not considered to have abandoned the provision of vocational training if the Director is of the opinion that the licensee is providing a means to enable a student to complete the vocational training without any disadvantage.
(5) This section does not require the refund of tuition in respect of a student whose student contract is terminated
(a) by the student before the licensee abandons the provision of vocational training, or
(b) by the licensee before the licensee abandons the provision of vocational training where the termination was made because the student was expelled or for non-payment of fees.
21(1) Subject to subsection (2), a refund of a student’s tuition must be paid
(a) to the student, or
(b) in the case of a student who has an outstanding student loan in respect of the vocational training for which the refund is being provided, to the lender that made the student loan.
(2) If a licensee receives payment of a student’s tuition from a government, agency or person other than the student, any refund of the sh1dent’s tuition must be paid to the government, agency or other person.
(3) If a licensee is required to refund a registration fee or tuition, the refund must be paid not later than the earlier of the following:
(a) 30 days from the day the student contract is terminated;
(b) the time period specified in an order of the Director.
Corporate Head Office
#22 – 11852 HWY 97 North
Lake Country, BC V4V 1E3
Telephone: 250-766-3853
Toll Free: 1-866-399-3853
Toll Free Fax: 1-877-347-6384
IHE would like to acknowledge that our corporate offices, as well as our training sites are located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan, Treaty 6 and Treaty 7 people of Canada.
