STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 [Note: This Act is "repealed" by Act No. 76 of 1986]
(#DATE 19:04:1967)
Compilation Information
- Reprinted as at 19 April 1967
STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
4. Minister may approve building projects
5. Grants for expenditure on building projects in connexion with
colleges
6. Advances
7. Appropriation
THE SCHEDULE
Grants for approved building projects in connexion with Colleges of Advanced
Education
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STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - SECT. 1.
Short title.
SECT
with Advanced Education.
Short title amended; No. 32, 1918, s. 2.
1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act
1965-1967.*
STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - SECT. 2.
Commencement.
SECT
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.*
STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - SECT. 3.
Definitions.
SECT
3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-
''approved building project'', in relation to a college of advanced
education, means a building project approved by the Minister under section 4
of this Act;
''building project'' includes-
(a) the purchase of land, with or without buildings;
(b) the planning, erection, alteration or extension of a building;
(c) the development or preparation of land for building or other
purposes;
(d) the installation of water, electricity or other services; and
(e) the provision of furniture or equipment for a building that has been
erected, altered or extended for the purposes of a college of advanced
education;
''college of advanced education'' means a place of education the name of
which is specified in the second column of the Schedule;
''State'' means a State the name of which is specified in the first column
of the Schedule;
''the prescribed period'' means the period that commenced on the first day
of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-five, and ends on the
thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six;
''the Schedule'' means the Schedule to this Act.
STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - SECT. 4.
Minister may approve building projects.
SECT
4. The Minister may, by instrument in writing under his hand, approve a
building project in connexion with a college of advanced education for the
purposes of this Act.
STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - SECT. 5.
Grants for expenditure on building projects in connexion with colleges.
SECT
5. (1) Subject to this section, where a State furnishes to the Minister such
information, certified to be correct by the Auditor-General of the State, as
the Minister requires with respect to the amount expended by a State during
the prescribed period for the purpose of carrying out an approved building
project in connexion with a college of advanced education in the State, there
is payable to the State, for the purposes of financial assistance, an amount
equal to one-half of the amount the Minister is satisfied has been so expended
by the State.
(2) An amount payable under the last preceding sub-section shall not exceed
so much of the amount the Minister is satisfied has been expended by the State
in carrying out the approved building project as was not derived from advances
under section 6 of this Act.
(3) The respective sums payable to a State under the last preceding
sub-section in relation to the several colleges in that State specified in the
second column of the Schedule shall not exceed the amounts respectively
specified in that column opposite to the names of those several colleges.
(4) The Minister may, by instrument in writing under his hand, either during
or after the prescribed period approve the taking into account for the
purposes of this Act of expenditure by a State in relation to an approved
building project incurred after the prescribed period and before a date
specified in the instrument and in that event this section shall apply as if
that expenditure had taken place during the prescribed period.
STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - SECT. 6.
Advances.
SECT
6. The Treasurer may, at such times as he thinks fit, make advances of such
amounts as he thinks fit to a State on account of an amount that may become
payable under this Act to the State in relation to an approved building
project and an amount so advanced is advanced on the conditions that-
(a) the State will, in respect of each payment of that advance and without
undue delay, ensure that an amount equal to that payment is applied towards
that approved building project;
(b) if the Minister informs the Treasurer of the State that he is satisfied
that the State has failed to fulfil the conditions applicable to that advance,
the State will pay an amount equal to the amount of that advance to the
Commonwealth; and
(c) if the amount of that advance or of that advance together with other
advances made under this section exceeds the amount properly payable, the
State will pay the excess to the Commonwealth.
STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - SECT. 7.
Appropriation.
SECT
7. Amounts payable to a State under this Act are payable out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.
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STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - THE SCHEDULE
SCH
Amended by No. 9, 1967, s. 3.
THE SCHEDULE
Sections 3, 4 and
5
GRANTS FOR APPROVED BUILDING PROJECTS IN CONNEXION WITH COLLEGES OF
ADVANCED EDUCATION
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Third
First Column Second Column Column
Maximum
Financial
Assistance
under
State College of Advanced Education section 5 (1)
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$
New South Wales . New South Wales Institute of Technology . . 500,000
Victoria . . . . Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology . . 500,000
The School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat 175,000
The Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong 75,000
Bendigo Technical College . . . . . . . . . 50,000
Queensland . . . Queensland Institute of Technology
(Brisbane) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262,218
Queensland Institute of Technology (Darling
Downs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,282
Queensland Institute of Technology
(Capricornia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,500
South Australia . South Australian Institute of Technology . . 125,000
Western Australia Western Australian Institute of Technology . 438,500
School of Mines of Western Australia,
Kalgoorlie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,500
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2,400,000
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STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1965 - NOTE
NOTE
1. The States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1965-1967 comprises the States
Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1965 as amended by the other Act specified in
the following table:
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Number Date of< Date of
Act and year Assent commencement
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States Grants (Advanced
Education) Act 1965 No. 102, 1965 13 Dec 1965 13 Dec 1965
States Grants (Advanced
Education) Act (No. 2)
1967 No. 9, 1967 19 Apr 1967 S. 3: 13 Dec 1965
Remainder: 19 Apr
1967
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