Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1960. No. 80.

 

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 24th day of September, 1960.

DUNROSSIL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.

AMENDMENTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS REGULATIONS. 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, 1960.

Amount of allowance.

2. Regulation 13 of the Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “Six hundred and seventy-five pounds” (wherever occurring) and “Thirteen hundred and fifty pounds” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Seven hundred and twenty pounds” and “Fourteen hundred and forty pounds”, respectively.

3. Regulation 14 of the Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Amount of allowance.

“14.—(1.) A full-time student who holds a mature age scholarship may be granted, in addition to a payment under Division 2 of this Part, a living allowance which shall, subject to this regulation, be at the rate of Three hundred and thirty-eight pounds per annum.

“(2.) The allowance specified in the last preceding sub-regulation is subject to a deduction at the rate of Two shillings for every Three shillings by which the student’s income in any week exceeds Two pounds five shillings.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20th October, 1960.

  Statutory Rules 1951, No. 9, as amended by Statutory Rules 1956, No. 26; 1957, No. 61; 1958, No. 8; and 1959, No. 67.

2818/60.—PRICE 3D. 10/6.6.1960.

 

“(3.) Notwithstanding the last preceding sub-regulation, where the student, being a female, is married and her husband is not a full-time student holding a Commonwealth scholarship, the deduction shall be at the rate of Two shillings for every Three shillings by which the combined income of the student and her husband in any week exceeds Four pounds ten shillings.

“(4.) Where the student, being a male, is married and his wife is not a full-time student holding a Commonwealth scholarship, he may, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, be paid a wife’s allowance at the rate of One pound fourteen shillings per week.

“(5.) The wife’s allowance specified in the last preceding sub-regulation is subject to a deduction at the rate of Two shillings for every Three shillings by which the wife’s income in any week exceeds Two pounds five shillings.

“(6.) Where the student, being a male and in receipt of an amount as living allowance under this regulation, has a child or children dependent on him, he may be paid, in addition to a wife’s allowance, a child allowance of Ten shillings per week in respect of the child, or the first child, under the age of sixteen years.

“(7.) The application of the last preceding sub-regulation extends to a female student who is a widow or a divorcee or who, being married, is living apart from her husband in pursuance of an order for judicial separation or a duly executed separation agreement.

“(8.) For the purposes of this regulation, in computing the student’s income—

(a) the respective incomes of husband and wife shall be deemed to be one-half of their combined income;

(b) an allowance payable under this Division shall be disregarded; and

(c) money received by the student from employment in the long vacation shall be disregarded.”.

4. Regulation 18 of the Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Maximum amount of allowances.

“18. The amount which may be paid to a student in any one year by way of living allowance shall not exceed the maximum amount that would have been payable under these Regulations in respect of the student, if the provisions of regulation 13 or regulation 14, as the case may be, under which deductions may be made from that maximum amount were disregarded.”.

 

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