Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 67.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE EDUCATION ACT 1945-1959.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Education Act 1945-1959.

Dated this 5th day of August, 1959.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) A. R. Downer

Minister for Immigration acting for and on

behalf of the Prime Minister.

 

Amendments of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations.

Commencement.

1.—(1.) These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, 1959.

(2.) For the purposes of the operation, before the commencement of the Education Act 1959, of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, a reference in those Regulations as so amended to the Board shall be read as a reference to the Universities Commission constituted by the Education Act 1945.

Citation.

2. Regulation 1 of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations is amended by omitting the word “Scholarship” and inserting in its stead the words “Scholarships and Awards”.

Repeal.

3. Regulation 3 of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “the Commission” and inserting in their stead the words “the Universities Commission constituted by the Education Act 1945”.

4. Regulation 4 of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Parts.

“4. These Regulations are divided into Parts, as follows:—

Part I.—Preliminary (Regulations 1-5).

Part II.—Commonwealth Scholarships.

Division 1.—General (Regulations 6-8).

Division 2.—Fees and Fares (Regulations 10-12).

Division 3.—Living Allowance: Ordinary Scholarships (Regulation 13).

Division 4.—Living Allowance: Mature Age Scholarships (Regulation 14).

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 13th August, 1959.

  Statutory Rules 1951, No. 9, as amended by Statutory Rules 1959, No. 26; 1957, No. 61; and 1958, No, 8.

4572/58.—Price 5d. 9/30.5.1959.

Part III.—Commonwealth Post-graduate Awards (Regulations 14a-14b).

Part IV.—Miscellaneous (Regulations 14c-18).

Manner of payment.

5. Regulation 9 of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations is repealed.

6. Regulation 11 of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Fares.

“11.—(1.) Subject to this Division, a full-time student who has been awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship may be granted, in respect of the year for which the scholarship is awarded, reimbursement of the amount paid by the student for fares for—

(a) the journey, if any, from his home to the training institution to commence training;

(b) one journey from the training institution to his home and return made during the long vacation; and

(c) the journey, if any, from the training institution to his home on completion of training.

“(2.) The amount reimbursed under the last preceding sub-regulation in respect of a journey shall not exceed the amount by which the appropriate fare in relation to the journey exceeds—

(a) in the case of the journey referred to in paragraph (a) or (c) of the last preceding sub-regulation—Two pounds ten shillings; or

(b) in the case of the journey referred to in paragraph (b)of the last preceding sub-regulation—Five pounds.

“(3.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, ‘the appropriate fare’, in relation to a journey, means—

(a) where second-class rail travel is available for the whole of the journey—the fare, at concessional rates, if any, for second-class rail travel for the whole of the journey;

(b)where second-class rail travel is available for a part, or parts, only of the journey—the aggregate of—

(i) the fare, or the aggregate of the fares, at concessional rates, if any, for second-class rail travel for that part or those parts, as the case may be, of the journey; and

(ii) the fare, or the aggregate of the fares, for such single or combined method of transport as is approved by the Board for the remainder of the journey; or

(c) in any other case—the fare, or the aggregate of the fares, for such single or combined method of transport as is approved by the Board for the journey.”.

Amount of allowance.

7. Regulation 13 of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “One hundred and ninety-five pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Two hundred and twenty-one pounds”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (2.) the words “Two hundred and ninety-nine pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Three hundred and thirty-eight pounds”;

(c) by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(c) an amount calculated at the rate of—

(i) in the case of a holder of a scholarship who is the brother or sister of a full-time student enrolled in a course referred to in the Schedule to these Regulations (whether the latter is the holder of a Commonwealth Scholarship or not)—Two pounds for every Fifteen pounds by which the adjusted family income (excluding, where that income exceeds Thirteen hundred and fifty pounds, the amount of the excess) of the holder of the scholarship exceeds Six hundred and seventy-five pounds and Two pounds for every Ten pounds by which the adjusted family income of the holder of the scholarship exceeds Thirteen hundred and fifty pounds; or

(ii) in any other case—Two pounds for every Ten pounds by which the adjusted family income (excluding, where that income exceeds Thirteen hundred and fifty pounds, the amount of the excess) of the holder of the scholarship exceeds Six hundred and seventy-five pounds and Three pounds for every Ten pounds by which the adjusted family income of the holder of the scholarship exceeds Thirteen hundred and fifty pounds;”;

(d) by omitting paragraphs (a) and (b)of sub-regulation (4.) and inserting in their stead the following paragraphs:—

“(a)One hundred and fifty pounds for the first child; and

(b)Seventy-five pounds for each other child,”; and

(e) by omitting sub-regulation (6.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(6.) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this regulation—

(a)where a full-time student who has been awarded an ordinary scholarship attains the age of twenty-five years, he may, in respect of each year after attaining that age during which he remains a full-time student, be granted a living allowance calculated in accordance with the next succeeding Division; and

(b) where a full-time student who has been awarded an ordinary scholarship is not, in the opinion of the Board, dependent on his parents or any other person, he may, while he remains a full-time student, be granted a living allowance calculated in accordance with the next succeeding Division.”.

Amount of allowance.

8. Regulation 14 of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(a) Three hundred and thirty-eight pounds per annum; and”;

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (2.) the words “One pound eleven shillings” and inserting in their stead the words “One pound fourteen shillings”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (2.) the words “Nine shillings” and inserting in their stead the words “Ten shillings”.

9. After Part II. of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations the following Part is inserted:—

“Part III.—Commonwealth Post-graduate Awards.

Grant of awards.

“14a. Subject to these Regulations, the Board may grant Commonwealth Post-graduate Awards to students in Australian universities undertaking courses of study approved by the Board for the purposes of those awards.

Grant of benefits.

“14b. A student who is granted a Commonwealth Post-graduate Award may be granted such benefits as are approved by the Board in his case.”.

10. The heading to Part III. of the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations is repealed and the following heading and regulation are inserted in its stead:—

“Part IV.—Miscellaneous.

Manner of payment.

“14c.—(1.) Subject to these Regulations, benefits shall be paid at such times, and subject to such conditions, as are determined by the Board.

“(2.) Benefits shall be paid in such manner as the Treasurer determines.”.

Additional amendment.

11. The Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations (other than regulation 3) are amended by omitting the words “the Commission” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “the Board”.

Schedule.

12. The Schedule to the Commonwealth Scholarship Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—

THE SCHEDULE.

Regulation 6.

CLASSES OF STUDENTS ELIGIBLE FOR COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS.

(a) Students enrolled at a University—

(i) in an undergraduate degree course;

(ii) in a course for the degree of Bachelor of Education, the Diploma of Educational Psychology, the Diploma of Dietetics, the Diploma of Education or the Certificate of Education; or

(iii) in a course for an undergraduate Diploma of—

Accountancy

Architecture

Building

Divinity

Engineering

Food Technology

Journalism

Manual Arts

Music

Occupational Therapy

Optometry

Pharmacy

Physical Education

Physiotherapy

Public Administration

Quantity Surveying

Science

Social Studies

Social Work

Town and Regional Planning.

(b)Students enrolled at an approved institution in a course of a standard approved by the Board in—

Accountancy

Agriculture

Animal Husbandry

Architecture

Art

Building

Cartography

Commerce

Dairying

Dietetics

Dramatic Art.

Engineering

Food and Nutrition

Food Technology

Forestry

Home Economics

Home Science

Horticulture

Institutional Management

Instrument Technology

Land Surveying

Legal Training

Management

Music

Needlecraft

Occupational Therapy

Oenology

Optometry

Orthoptics

Pharmacy

Physical Education

Physiotherapy

Pre-school Teacher Training

Public Administration

Quantity Surveying

Science

Speech Therapy

Teacher Training.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.