States Grants (Technical Training) Act 1973 (Cth)

States Grants (Technical Training) Act 1973

No. 59 of 1973

AN ACT

To amend the States Grants (Technical Training) Act 1971.

[Assented to 18 June 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

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

(2) The States Grants (Technical Training) Act 1971 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 (Technical Training) Act 1971–1973.

Commencement.

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

Grants for technical training.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-section (1), after the word “applies”, the words “or, subject to sub-section (1a), after that period”;

(b) by omitting from sub-section (1) the words “subject to the next succeeding sub-section” and substituting the words “subject to sub-section (2)”;

 

(c) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:—

“(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.”;

(d) by omitting from sub-section (2) the words “under the last preceding sub-section” and substituting the words “under this section”; and

(e) by adding at the end of sub-section (3) the words “including the purchase of land, with or without buildings, for such use”.

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

Regulations may vary amounts.

“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.”.

Schedule.

5. The Schedule to the Principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:—

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
46,000,000