States Grants (Technical Training) Act 1971 (Cth)

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971
- Reprinted as at 18 June 1973 (HISTACT2 CHAP 427 #DATE 18:06:1973)

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 
TABLE



             STATES  GRANTS  (TECHNICAL  TRAINING)  ACT  1971



                             TABLE  OF  PROVISIONS

Section

  1.        Short title

  2.        Commencement

  3.        Definitions

  4.        Grants for technical training

  4A.       Regulations may vary amounts

  5.        Annual statement by Minister

  6.        Appropriation

  7.        Regulations



                                    SCHEDULE



                                Limit of Grants



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STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - SECT. 1. 
Short title. 
SECT

for use in Technical Training.

Short title amended; No. 32, 1918, s. 2.

  1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Technical Training) Act
1971-1973.*

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - SECT. 2. 
Commencement. 
SECT

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

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - SECT. 3. 
Definitions. 
SECT

  3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-



  ''building'', in relation to an institution in relation to which this Act
applies, includes a building used, or a proposed building that will be used,
for the purpose of providing residential accommodation for persons receiving
or undergoing technical training at that institution;



  ''institution in relation to which this Act applies'' means a place of
education or training the whole or a part of which is carried on exclusively
or principally for the purpose of providing technical training, being a place
of education or training that-



     (a)  is conducted by a State; or



     (b)  is declared by the regulations to be an institution in relation to
which this Act applies;



  ''technical training'' means the training of persons for engagement in
trades, technical occupations or agricultural or other rural occupations;



  ''the period to which this Act applies'' means the period commencing on the
first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one, and ending on
the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-four.

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - SECT. 4. 
Grants for technical training. 
SECT

Sub-section (1) amended by No. 59, 1973, s. 3.

  4. (1) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State, under this Act,
during the period to which this Act applies or, subject to sub-section (1A),
after that period, by way of financial assistance, of such amounts as, subject
to sub-section (2), he determines.

Inserted by No. 59, 1973, s. 3.
  (1A) The Minister shall not authorize the payment of an amount to a State
under this section after the period to which this Act applies unless he is
satisfied that the amount will be applied for the purpose of meeting
commitments undertaken during that period.

Amended by No. 59, 1973, s. 3.
  (2) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under this section
that-



  (a)  exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in the Schedule to this
Act opposite to the name of the State;



  (b)  in the case of payments authorized on or before the thirtieth day of
June, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two-exceed, in the aggregate,
one-third of that amount; or



  (c)  in the case of payments authorized on or before the thirtieth day of
June, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-three-exceed, in the aggregate,
two-thirds of that amount.

Amended by No. 59, 1973, s. 3.
  (3) Payment of an amount to a State under this Act is subject to the
condition that the amount will be applied by the State, as approved by the
Minister, for purposes in connexion with buildings and equipment for use in
technical training in institutions in relation to which this Act applies
including the purchase of land, with or without buildings, for such use.

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - SECT. 4A. 
Regulations may vary amounts. 
SECT

Inserted by No. 59, 1973, s. 4.

  4A. At any time during the period to which this Act applies, provision may
be made by the regulations that this Act shall have effect as if the amounts
specified in the Schedule opposite to the names of any States were varied in
accordance with the regulations, but not so as to increase the total of the
amounts specified opposite to the names of the States in the Schedule.

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - SECT. 5. 
Annual statement by Minister. 
SECT

  5. The Minister shall cause a statement to be laid before each House of the
Parliament as soon as practicable after each thirtieth day of June included in
the period to which this Act applies describing the arrangements in accordance
with which payments under this Act have been authorized in the year that ended
on that day and stating, in respect of each State-



  (a)  the total of the amounts paid to the State under this Act in that year;
and



  (b)  the names of the institutions in relation to which this Act applies in
respect of which the State has, during that year, applied amounts paid to the
State under this Act.

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - SECT. 6. 
Appropriation. 
SECT

  6. Payments under this Act shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue
Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - SECT. 7. 
Regulations. 
SECT

  7. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be
prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or
giving effect to this Act.



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STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - SCHEDULE 
SCH

Substituted by No. 59, 1973, s. 5.

                                    SCHEDULE

                                                                   Section 4
(2) 



                               LIMIT  OF  GRANTS

$ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16,988,000 Victoria  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 12,820,000 Queensland  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 6,721,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 4,323,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 3,699,000 Tasmania  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 1,449,000

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46,000,000 

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STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL TRAINING) ACT 1971 - NOTE 



                                      NOTE

1.  The States Grants (Technical Training) Act 1971-1973 comprises the States
Grants (Technical Training) Act 1971 as amended by the other Act specified in
the following table:

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                                      Number           Date of Assent and

    Act                               and year         of commencement

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    States Grants (Technical

    Training) Act 1971                No. 37, 1971     18 May 1971

    States Grants (Technical

    Training) Act 1973                No. 59, 1973     18 June 1973

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