States Grants (Advanced Education) Act (No. 3) 1967 (Cth)

States Grants (Advanced Education) (No. 3)

 

No. 105 of 1967

An Act to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1967.

[Assented to 14 November 1967]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act (No. 3) 1967.

(2.) The States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1967 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Advanced Education) Acts 1967.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Interpretation.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of the definition of “State contributions” in sub-section (1.) the words “or subscribed moneys”; and

(b) by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the definition of “State contributions”, the following definition:—

“‘subscribed moneys’ means moneys subscribed or provided by members of the public, or by a person or body other than the Commonwealth or a State or an authority (not being a local governing authority) of the Commonwealth or of a State, for purposes related to a college of advanced education, and includes moneys so subscribed or provided to, or to a fund administered by, the State in which the college of advanced education is situated or a body administering that college;”.

Grants in respect of moneys subscribed for residential accommodation.

4. After section 7 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

“7a.—(1.) Subject to this section, if—

(a) an amount of subscribed moneys is proposed to be expended, during the period of three years to which this Act applies, on an approved project in relation to residential accommodation at a college of advanced education; and

(b) the whole or a part of that proposed expenditure is, at the request of the State in which the college is situated, approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section,

the last preceding section has effect as if expenditure in accordance with the approval were expenditure by way of a State contribution.

“(2.) Notwithstanding any approval under the last preceding subsection, that sub-section does not apply to so much of any expenditure of subscribed moneys on a project as exceeds the total of the amounts expended, during the period of three years to which this Act applies, by the State in which the college is situated, by way of State contributions, on that project, and the Minister shall have regard to the provisions of this sub-section, and to the proposed State contributions in relation to. the project, in giving an approval under that sub-section.

“(3.) The Minister shall not approve an amount of proposed expenditure under section (1.) of this section unless the State in which the college is situated has given an undertaking in terms approved by the Minister under which moneys of or provided by the State, not being subscribed moneys, not less in amount than the amount of expenditure in accordance.

with the approval, are to be expended, during the period of three years to which this Act applies and in accordance with the undertaking—

(a) by way of expenditure in respect of a project of the college concerned, not being a project specified in the Second Schedule; or

(b) by way of additional State expenditure in respect of a project of the college concerned specified in the Second Schedule.

“(4.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-section, additional State expenditure in respect of a project is expenditure in respect of that project additional to expenditure by way of State contributions equal to—

(a) the amount specified in the Second Schedule in relation to that project; or

(b) if another amount has been determined by the Minister under sub-section (2.) of section 7 of this Act in respect of that project— the other amount so determined.

“(5.) The financial assistance granted to a State by virtue of this section in respect of a project is granted subject to the conditions that—

(a)the State will, in respect of each payment of that financial assistance and without undue delay, ensure that an amount equal to that payment is applied towards the project in a manner approved by the Minister; and

(b) the State will comply with the relevant undertaking given in accordance with sub-section (3.) of this section.”.

First Schedule.

5. The First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from Parts I, II and III the words “Bendigo Technical College” and inserting in their stead the words “Bendigo Institute of Technology”.

Second Schedule.

6.—(1.) The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the first, second and third columns of that Schedule the words and figures relating to the Bendigo Technical College and inserting in their stead the following words and figures:—

“Bendigo Institute of Technology	Site development..................................................................	26,000
	Completion of diploma building.............................................	224,000
	Erection of applied science building.......................................	100,000
	Equipment............................................................................	80,000”

(2.) The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the first, second and third columns of that Schedule the words and figures relating to The School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat and inserting in their stead the following words and figures:—

“The School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat	Site development..................................................................	10,000
	Completion of diploma buildings...........................................	162,000
	Equipment............................................................................	80,000”

(3.) The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the first, second and third columns of that Schedule the words and figures relating to the Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane and inserting in their stead the following words and figures:—

“Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane	Erection of biological science building...................................	30,000
	Extension of civil engineering building..................................	382,000
	Extension of electrical engineering building............................	75,000
	Erection of maintenance building...........................................	3,000
	Erection of library.................................................................	25,000
	Erection of mechanical engineering buildings.........................	100,000
	Erection of production engineering building...........................	350,000
	Completion of community building........................................	375,000
	Completion of chemistry block renovations............................	50,000
	Completion of architecture building.......................................	45,000
	Equipment............................................................................	210,000
	Other works and services.......................................................	285,000”

Bendigo Institute of Technology.

7.