States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Act 1976 (Cth)
An Act to amend the
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
(2) The
(3)The
Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the
(a) by omitting from the definition of “period to which this Act applies” in sub-section (1) the figures and word “30 June 1976” and substituting the figures and word “31 December 1976”;
(b) by adding at the end of the definition of “year” in sub-section (1) the words and includes the period of 6 months commencing on 1 July 1976”;
(c) by adding at the end of the definition of “year to which this Act applies” in sub-section (1) the words “or the period of 6 months commencing on 1 July 1976”; and
(d) by omitting from sub-section (2) the word “financial”.
(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) the word “and”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following word and paragraph:—
“; and (c) in the case of the period of 6 months commencing on 1 July 1976—the amount specified in column 4 of Schedule 3 opposite to the name of the State.”.
(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) the word “financial”;
(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) the word “financial”; and
(c) by omitting from paragraph (c) the word “financial” (wherever occurring).
“; and (c) in the case of the period of 6 months commencing on 1 July 1976—the amount specified in column 4 of Schedule 4 opposite to the name of the State.”.
(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) the word “and”; and
(b) by adding at the end of sub-section (2) the following word and paragraph:—
“; and (c) in the case of the period of 6 months commencing on 1 July 1976—the amount specified in column 4 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State.”.
(a) by inserting in sub-section (2), after the word “paragraph”, the figures “19(1)”;
(b) by inserting in sub-section (3), after the word “paragraph”, the figures “19(1)”; and
(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:—
“(4) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under this section, in the period of 6 months commencing on 1 July 1976, in respect of projects for a purpose specified in paragraph 19(1)(a), (b) or (d) that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified opposite to the name of that State in column 10, 11 or 12, respectively, of Schedule 6.
“(5) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under this section, in the period of 6 months commencing on 1 July 1976, in respect of projects for a purpose specified in paragraph 19(1)(c).”.
(a) by omitting sub-sections (1) and (2) and substituting the following sub-sections:—
“(1) Where the amount specified opposite to the name of a State in column 2 or 3 of Schedule 4 exceeds the aggregate of the amounts paid to the State in accordance with section 15 in the period to which that column relates, the Minister may, at the request of the State, determine in writing that the amount so specified be varied by reducing that amount by an amount not exceeding the amount of that excess and that the amount specified opposite to the name of the State in the column of that Schedule relating to the period next following that first-mentioned period be varied by increasing that amount by an amount equal to the amount of that reduction.
“(2) Where the amount specified opposite to the name of a State in column 2 or 3 of Schedule 5 exceeds the aggregate of the amounts paid to the State in accordance with section 18 in the period to which that column relates, the Minister may, at the request of the State, determine in writing that the amount so specified be varied by reducing that amount by an amount not exceeding the amount of that excess and that the amount specified opposite to the name of the State in the column of that Schedule relating to the period next following that first-mentioned period be varied by increasing that amount by an amount equal to the amount of that reduction.
(b) by inserting after sub-section (3) the following sub-section:—
“(3a) Where the amount specified opposite to the name of a State in column 3, 5 or 9 of Schedule 6 exceeds the aggregate of the amounts paid to the State in accordance with section 20 for purposes referred to in paragraph 19(1)(a), (b) or (d), respectively, in the year that ends on 30 June 1976, the Minister may, at the request of the State, determine in writing that the amount so specified be varied by reducing that amount by an amount not exceeding the amount of that excess and that the amount specified opposite to the name of the State in column 10, 11 or 12, respectively, of that Schedule be varied by increasing that amount by an amount equal to the amount of that reduction.”; and
(c) by omitting from sub-section (5) the word and figure “or (3)” (wherever occurring) and substituting the figures and word “, (3) or (3a)”.
“26. Financial assistance payable to a State under this Act (other than advances) shall be paid in such amounts, and at such times, as the Minister determines in accordance with arrangements approved by the Treasurer”.
“29. (1) Payments to a State of amounts authorized to be paid under section 6, 8 or 10 or of advances on account of amounts that are expected to be so authorized may be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or the Loan Fund.
“(2) Payments to a State for the purposes of this Act, other than payments referred to in sub-section (1), shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
“29a. The Treasurer may, from time to time, in accordance with the provisions
of the
“29b. Moneys borrowed under section 29a shall be issued and applied only for the expenses of borrowing and for the purpose of making payments to the Consolidated Revenue Fund in accordance with section 29c.
“29c. (1) Where an amount has been paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund under sub-section 29(1), the Treasurer may authorize the payment to that Fund, out of the Loan Fund, of an amount not exceeding the amount so paid.
“(2) In
any statement of the receipts and expenditure, or of the expenditure, of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund prepared by the Treasurer under section 49 or section 50 of
the
“29d. The Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Loan Fund are appropriated as necessary for the purposes of this Act”.
SCHEDULE Section 13
Schedule 1 Section 6
Capital Grants For Major Building Projects
Column 1 | Column 2 |
Maximum | |
Name of State | Grant |
$ | |
New South Wales...................................................................................................... | 12,735,000 |
Victoria..................................................................................................................... | 9,724,000 |
Queensland............................................................................................................... | 4,692,000 |
South Australia......................................................................................................... | 3,323,000 |
Western Australia...................................................................................................... | 2,870,000 |
Tasmania.................................................................................................................. | 1,163,000 |
Total............................................................................................................... | 34,507,000 |
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Schedule 2 Section 8
Capital Grants For Minor Building Projects And Equipment
Column 1 | Column 2 |
Maximum | |
Name of State | Grant |
$ | |
New South Wales...................................................................................................... | 4,758,000 |
Victoria..................................................................................................................... | 4,000,000 |
Queensland................................................................................................................ | 1,800,000 |
South Australia.......................................................................................................... | 1,767,000 |
Western Australia...................................................................................................... | 1,771,000 |
Tasmania................................................................................................................... | 1,060,000 |
Total............................................................................................................... | 15,156,000 |
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SCHEDULE 3 Section 12
General Purpose Recurrent Grants
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
Year | Year | Six months | |
commencing | commencing | commencing | |
1 July 1974 | 1 July 1975 | 1 July 1976 | |
Name of State | Amount of Grant | Amount of Grant | Amount of Grant |
$ | $ | $ | |
New South Wales...................................... | 9,604,500 | 13,024,500 | 2,112,000 |
Victoria..................................................... | 5,311,000 | 7,289,500 | 3,505,000 |
Queensland............................................... | 1,860,500 | 2,612,500 | 900,000 |
SCHEDULE—continued
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
Year | Year | Six months | |
commencing | commencing | commencing | |
1 July 1974 | 1 July 1975 | 1 July 1976 | |
Name of State | Amount of Grant | Amount of Grant | Amount of Grant |
$ | $ | $ | |
South Australia......................................... | 2,054,000 | 2,801,000 | 1,197,000 |
Western Australia...................................... | 1,740,000 | 2,385,000 | 494,000 |
Tasmania.................................................. | 370,000 | 528,500 | 189,000 |
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Schedule 4 Section 15
Particular Purpose Recurrent Grants
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
Year | Year | Six months | |
commencing | commencing | commencing | |
1 July 1974 | 1 July 1975 | 1 July 1976 | |
Name of State | Maximum Grant | Maximum Grant | Maximum Grant |
$ | $ | $ | |
New South Wales...................................... | 1,480,000 | 2,301,000 | 985,000 |
Victoria..................................................... | 1,149,000 | 1,794,500 | 765,500 |
Queensland................................................ | 695,000 | 1,074,000 | 462,500 |
South Australia.......................................... | 382,000 | 594,000 | 254,000 |
Western Australia...................................... | 334,000 | 529,000 | 223,000 |
Tasmania................................................... | 167,000 | 261,500 | 111,500 |
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Schedule 5 Section 18
Grants For In-Service Teacher Training Programs
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
Year | Year | Six months | |
commencing | commencing | commencing | |
1 July 1974 | 1 July 1975 | 1 July 1976 | |
Name of State | Maximum Grant | Maximum Grant | Maximum Grant |
$ | $ | $ | |
New South Wales....................................... | 310,000 | 620,000 | 310,000 |
Victoria...................................................... | 133,000 | 267,000 | 133,500 |
Queensland................................................ | 100,000 | 200,000 | 100,000 |
South Australia.......................................... | 117,000 | 233,000 | 116,500 |
Western Australia....................................... | 110,000 | 220,000 | 110,000 |
Tasmania................................................... | 30,000 | 60,000 | 30,000 |
SCHEDULE—continued
Schedule 6 Section 20
Special Project Recurrent Grants
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 | Column 7 |
Year commencing | Year commencing | Year commencing | Year commencing | Year commencing | Year commencing | |
1 July | 1 July | 1 July | 1 July | 1 July | 1 July | |
1974 | 1975 | 1974 | 1975 | 1974 | 1975 | |
Maximum | Maximum | Maximum | Maximum | Maximum | Maximum | |
Name of State | Grant | Grant | Grant | Grant | Grant | Grant |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |
New South Wales.......................................... | 77,000 | 103,000 | 9,000 | 16,000 | 6,000 | 14,000 |
Victoria.......................................... | 58,000 | 77,000 | 9,000 | 16,000 | 6,000 | 14,000 |
Queensland.......................................... | 56,000 | 74,000 | 8,000 | 17,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
South Australia.......................................... | 24,000 | 31,000 | 8,000 | 17,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
Western Australia.......................................... | 19,000 | 26,000 | 8,000 | 17,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
Tasmania.......................................... | 6,000 | 9,000 | 8,000 | 17,000 | 3,000 | 7,000 |
Column 8 | Column 9 | Column 10 | Column 11 | Column 12 | ||
Six months | Six months | Six months | ||||
Year commencing | Year commencing | commencing | commencing | commencing | ||
1 July | 1 July | 1 July | 1 July | 1 July | ||
1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1976 | 1976 | ||
Maximum | Maximum | Maximum | Maximum | Maximum | ||
Grant | Grant | Grant | Grant | Grant | ||
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||
New South Wales............. | 164,000 | 226,000 | 51,500 | 8,000 | 113,000 | |
Victoria............................ | 117,000 | 163,000 | 38,500 | 8,000 | 81,500 | |
Queensland...................... | 63,000 | 87,000 | 37,000 | 8,500 | 43,500 | |
South Australia................. | 38,000 | 52,000 | 15,500 | 8,500 | 26,000 | |
Western Australia............. | 25,000 | 35,000 | 13,000 | 8,500 | 17,500 | |
Tasmania.......................... | 13,000 | 17,000 | 4,500 | 8,500 | 8,500 |
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