Higher Education Funding Amendment Act (No. 2) 1989 (Cth)

Higher Education Funding Amendment Act

(No. 2) 1989

No. 168 of 1989

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section

1. Short title etc.

2. Commencement

3. Definitions

4. Institutions

5. Maximum grants

6. Grants for Aboriginal participation projects

7. Grants for superannuation expenses

8. Grants for projects of national priority

9. Promotion of equality of opportunity

10. Special research assistance

11. Grants in respect of teaching hospitals

12. Grants for building projects

13. Grants for Aboriginal participation projects

14. Promotion of equality of opportunity

15. Grants for building projects

16. Interpretation

Higher Education Funding Amendment Act

(No. 2) 1989

No. 168 of 1989

An Act to amend the Higher Education Funding Act 1988,

and for related purposes

[Assented to 19 December 1989]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title etc.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Higher Education Funding Amendment Act (No. 2) 1989.

(2) In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Higher Education Funding Act 19881.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Definitions

3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting “of technical and further education” from the definition of “course of study” and substituting “declared by the Minister, for the purposes of an Act relating to the funding of technical and further education, to be a course of technical and further education”;

(b) by omitting “or the year 1991” from paragraph (b) of the definition of “ year to which this Chapter applies” and substituting “, the year 1991 or the year 1992”;

(c) by omitting the definition of “technical and further education”;

(d) by inserting the following definition:

“ ‘overseas student’ has the same meaning as in the Overseas Students Charge Act 1979, but does not include a student to whom paragraph 4(1) (a) of the Overseas Students Charge Collection Regulations applies;”.

Institutions

4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the Table from subsection (1) and substituting the following Table:

“NEW SOUTH WALES

Armidale College of Advanced Education

Avondale College

Catholic College of Education Sydney Ltd

Charles Sturt University

Cumberland College of Health Sciences

Hawkesbury Agricultural College

Hunter Institute of Higher Education

Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education

Macarthur Institute of Higher Education

Mitchell College of Advanced Education

Nepean College of Advanced Education

New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music

Northern College of Advanced Education

Orange Agricultural College

Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education

Sydney College of Advanced Education

The Macquarie University

The New South Wales Institute of the Arts

The University of New South Wales

The University of Newcastle

The University of Wollongong

University of New England

University of Sydney

University of Technology, Sydney

University of Western Sydney

VICTORIA

Ballarat College of Advanced Education

Bendigo College of Advanced Education

Chisholm Institute of Technology

Deakin University

Footscray Institute of Technology

Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education

Hawthorn Institute of Education

Institute of Catholic Education

La Trobe University

Marcus Oldham College of Farm Management

Monash University

Phillip Institute of Technology

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Ltd

Swinburne Limited

The Victorian College of the Arts

The Western Institute

The Wodonga Institute of Tertiary Education

University of Melbourne

Victoria College

Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture

Victorian College of Pharmacy Ltd

Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education

QUEENSLAND

Brisbane College of Advanced Education

Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education

Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education

Gold Coast College of Advanced Education

Griffith University

James Cook University of North Queensland

McAuley College

Queensland Agricultural College

Queensland Conservatorium of Music

Queensland University of Technology

The University of Queensland

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Curtin University of Technology

Murdoch University

The University of Western Australia

Western Australian College of Advanced Education

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Roseworthy Agricultural College

South Australian College of Advanced Education

South Australian Institute of Technology

The Flinders University of South Australia

The University of Adelaide

TASMANIA

Tasmanian State Institute of Technology

University of Tasmania

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Signadou College of Education

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Batchelor College

Northern Territory University”.

Maximum grants

5. Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) “$2,240,750,000; and” and substituting “$2,282,996,000;”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (c) “$2,280,659,000” and substituting “$2,297,052,000”;

(c) by adding at the end the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$2,342,969,000.”.

Grants for Aboriginal participation projects

6. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (4) (b) “and”;

(b) by adding at the end of subsection (4) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$13,476,000.”.

Grants for superannuation expenses

7. Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) “$118,106,000; and” and substituting “$48,560,000;”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (3) (c) “$127,199,000” and substituting “$57,653,000”;

(c) by adding at the end of subsection (3) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$66,629,000.”.

Grants for projects of national priority

8. Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) “and”;

(b) by adding at the end of subsection (3) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$28,855,000.”.

Promotion of equality of opportunity

9. Section 22 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “and”;

(b) by adding at the end of subsection (5) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$1,315,000.”.

Special research assistance

10. (1) Section 23 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:

“(1) The Minister may approve a proposal for expenditure by an institution to which this section applies upon:

(a) a special research centre; or

(b) a key centre of teaching and research; or

(c) Australian postgraduate research awards; or

(d) overseas postgraduate research awards; or

(e) a program of research;

as a proposal deserving financial assistance under this section in respect of a year to which this Chapter applies subject to such conditions as the Minister determines.”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (4) (a) “$15,717,000” and substituting “$15,489,900”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (4) (b) “$36,927,000; and” and substituting “$144,396,000;”;

(d) by omitting from paragraph (4) (c) “$63,327,000” and substituting “$185,338,000”;

(e) by adding at the end of subsection (4) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$196,003,000.”.

(2) An approval made by the Minister under subsection 23 (1) of the Principal Act as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act is to be taken, after that commencement, to have been made under subsection 23 (1) of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.

Grants in respect of teaching hospitals

11. Section 24 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) “and”;

(b) by adding at the end of subsection (3) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$3,836,000.”.

Grants for building projects

12. Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “$84,669,000; and” and substituting “$87,731,000;”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (5) (c) “$84,669,000” and substituting “$87,731,000”;

(c) by adding at the end of subsection (5) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$87,731,000.”.

Grants for Aboriginal participation projects

13. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (4) (b) “and”;

(b) by adding at the end of subsection (4) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$12,329,000.”.

Promotion of equality of opportunity

14. Section 30 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “and”;

(b) by adding at the end of subsection (5) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$2,112,000.”.

Grants for building projects

15. Section 31 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “$72,064,000; and” and substituting “$74,671,000;”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (5) (c) “$106,345,000” and substituting “$110,192,000”;

(c) by adding at the end of subsection (5) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$110,192,000.”.

Interpretation

16. Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) the definition of “overseas student”.

NOTE

1. No. 2, 1989, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 138, 1988; and No. 80, 1989.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 2 November 1989 Senate on 13 December 1989