Higher Education Support Act 2003 Declaration of List of Other Grants (Research) under Division 41 for 2010 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Higher Education Support Act 2003

Declaration of List of Other Grants (Research) under Division 41 for 2010

I, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, under section 41-50 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (‘the Act’), approve the following list of the maximum amounts of all Other Grants (Research) which may be paid in 2010 for each purpose of grant specified under items 7, 8, 10 and 11(b) in the Table in subsection 41-10(1) of that Act.

Dated this 19^th Day of October 2009.

KIM CARR

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Senator the Hon Kim Carr

Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

* The remaining items in the table in section 41-10(1) of the Act are administered by the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

LIST PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 41-50 OF THE

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 (‘THE ACT’) OF THE

MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF OTHER GRANTS (RESEARCH) WHICH MAYBE PAID IN 2010

FOR EACH PURPOSE OF GRANT SPECIFIED IN ITEMS 7, 8, 10 AND 11(b)

OF THE TABLE IN SECTION 41-10(1) OF THE ACT*

ITEM	PURPOSE OF GRANT	MAXIMUM AMOUNTS FOR THE YEAR 2010
ITEM 7	TO SUPPORT RESEARCH BY, AND THE RESEARCH CAPABILITY OF, HIGHER EDUCATION PROVIDERS (1)	$622,961,000
			ITEM 8	TO SUPPORT THE TRAINING OF RESEARCH STUDENTS (2)	$615,965,000
ITEM 10	TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMIC INFRASTRUCTURE USED BY HIGHER EDUCATION PROVIDERS (3)	$2,816,000
ITEM 11 (b)	FOR ACTIVITIES THAT: FOSTER AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPORTANCE OF, OR PROMOTE RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP IN, SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE OR THE HUMANITIES IN AUSTRALIA (4)	**$5,734,000
TOTAL	$1,247,476,000

Notes:

* The other items in the Table in section 41-10(1) of the Act are administered by the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

** This amount includes $1,000,000 (one million dollars) that was recorded in the Department’s Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) 2009-10 as an ‘Administered Item’.  The Department’s Budgets and Estimates Team has advised that this amount may be incorporated into the HESA 2003 funding, for the 2010 grant payments, as part of the special appropriation under Program 2.2 of the Department’s PBS 2009-10.

The relevant grant programs or institutions corresponding with these items are:

(1)           The Joint Research Engagement, Research Infrastructure Block Grants and Sustainable Research Excellence;

(2)           The Commercialisation Training Scheme, and the Research Training Scheme;

(3)           The Implementation Assistance Program;

(4)           The Australian Centre for Child Protection;
The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science;

The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences;

The Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies

Learned Academies as follows:

·National Academies Forum

·Australian Academy of the Humanities

·Australian Academy of Science

·Academy of Social Sciences of Australia

·Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering