States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 (Cth)

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States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977

Act No.158 of 1977 as amended

[Note: This Act is repealed by Act No. 118 of 1999]

This compilation was prepared on 17 July 2000

taking into account amendments up to Act No. 118 of 1999

The text of any of those amendments not in force

on that date is appended in the Notes section

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,

Attorney‑General’s Department, Canberra

      

Contents

An Act relating to the grant of financial assistance to the States in connexion with universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education institutions

 Part IPreliminary  1Short title [see Note 1]

This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977.

2Commencement [see Note 1]

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

3Interpretation
  • (1)

    In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

building project means:

  • (a)

    the purchase of land, with or without buildings;

  • (b)

    the planning, erection, alteration or extension of a building or other facilities;

  • (c)

    the development or preparation of land for building or other purposes; or

  • (d)

    the installation of water, electricity or other services.

college of advanced education means:

  • (a)

    an institution that is a college of advanced education for the purposes of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977 other than such an institution that is situated in a Territory;

  • (b)

    the New South Wales Higher Education Board;

  • (c)

    the State College of Victoria;

  • (d)

    the Victoria Institute of Colleges;

  • (e)

    the Board of Advanced Education of Queensland;

  • (f)

    the South Australian Board of Advanced Education; or

  • (g)

    the Western Australian Teacher Education Authority.

commencing day means the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

Commission means the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission established by the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977.

qualified auditor means, in relation to the furnishing of a statement, for the purposes of a condition of a grant of financial assistance to a State under this Act, in relation to a University, a college of advanced education or a student residence or affiliated college of a University or college of advanced education:

  • (a)

    the Auditor‑General of the State;

  • (b)

    a person who is registered as a company auditor or public accountant under a law in force in a State or Territory;

  • (c)

    a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants or of the Australian Society of Accountants; or

  • (d)

    a person approved by the Commission as a person competent to furnish such a statement;

other than such a person who is employed by the University, by the college or by the body administering the college, student residence or affiliated college, as the case may be.

technical and further education institution means:

  • (a)

    an institution (other than a university or school), situated in a State, that provides technical and further education, being an institution conducted by, or on behalf of, the Government of a State; or

  • (b)

    an institution situated in a State, or a proposed institution to be situated in a State, that is specified in a direction for the time being in force under section 5 of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977.

University means an institution that is a University for the purposes of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977 other than such an institution that is situated in a Territory.

  • (2)

    Where the Minister is satisfied that an institution, being a University, college of advanced education or technical and further education institution that is known by a name other than a name specified in a Schedule is substantially identical with an institution specified in a Schedule, the Minister may, in his discretion and with the approval of the State in which the first‑mentioned institution is situated, by instrument in writing, declare that he is so satisfied, and, upon the making of the declaration, the first‑mentioned institution shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the institution so specified in that Schedule.

  • (3)

    For the purposes of this Act:

    • (a)

      a State shall be deemed to have paid moneys to a college of advanced education that is not a body corporate if it has paid those moneys to the body administering that college; and

    • (b)

      a college of advanced education that is not a body corporate shall be deemed to have done any act or thing that is required or permitted by this Act to be done if the body administering the college has done that act or thing.

4Approval of, and directions relating to, building projects
  • (1)

    For the purposes of this Act, the Minister:

    • (a)

      may approve a building project (other than a minor building project within the meaning of Part II) submitted to him by a University as an approved building project of the University in respect of the year 1978;

    • (b)

      may approve a building project (other than a minor building project or a planning project within the meaning of Part III) submitted to him by a State as an approved building project of the college in respect of the year 1978;

    • (c)

      may approve a building project (other than a minor building project within the meaning of Part IV) submitted to him by a State as an approved building project of a technical and further education institution in respect of the year 1978; and

    • (d)

      may direct that information included in a specified class of information be furnished to the Commission in respect of building projects (not being minor building projects of technical and further education institutions) included in a specified class of building projects at such times and in such manner as are specified in the direction.

  • (2)

    The building projects that may be approved by the Minister under subsection (1) are building projects additional to the building projects specified in Schedule 7.

  • (3)

    Where the Minister approves a building project under subsection (1), the Minister shall also approve:

    • (a)

      an amount, being an amount equal to the estimated cost of the project, as the approved cost of the project; and

    • (b)

      an amount of expenditure, not exceeding the estimated expenditure on the project in the year 1978, as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (4)

    As soon as practicable after the Minister has approved a building project under subsection (1), the Minister shall cause a statement specifying the project, the approved cost of the project and the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978 to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

  • (5)

    For the purposes of this Act, the Commission may, after consideration of information furnished to it with respect to a building project of a University or a building project of a college of advanced education, or a technical and further education institution, in a State, being a building project specified in Schedule 7 or a building project approved by the Minister or by the Commission in respect of the year 1978, give directions to the University, or to the State, as the case may be, with respect to the manner in which the project is to be carried out.

  • (6)

    The Minister may vary or revoke an approval or direction given by him under this section and the Commission may vary or revoke a direction given by it under this section.

Part IIUniversities5Interpretation
  • (1)

    In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

capital expenditure means expenditure on a building project.

minor building project in relation to a University, means a building project included in a class of building projects determined by the Minister to be a class of minor building projects in respect of that University, or of a class of Universities in which that University is included.

university purposes, in relation to a University, means:

  • (a)

    the general teaching and research purposes of the University in connexion with courses of study provided by that University (including preparatory work in connexion with proposed courses of study); and

  • (b)

    building projects of the University, not being building projects that involve the purchase of land, in relation to each of which the total expenditure does not exceed $30,000 or an amount equal to 0.25 per centum of the amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 1 in relation to that University, whichever is the lesser amount.

recurrent expenditure means expenditure that is not capital expenditure.

  • (2)

    In this Act, a reference to a teaching hospital of a University shall be read as including a reference to a hospital in which students enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine, or School of Medicine, of that University receive clinical instruction.

  • (3)

    Where a building project of a University consists of, or includes, the erection, alteration or extension of a building, that project shall be deemed to include the provision of furnishings for the building, or for the altered parts or the extensions of the building, as the case may be.

6Grants for expenditure on university purposes
  • (1)

    In relation to each University specified in Column 1 of Schedule 1, there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the expenditure of the University for university purposes in respect of the year 1978, the amount specified in Column 2 of that Schedule in relation to that University.

  • (2)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to a University on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the University without undue delay;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended by the University for university purposes in respect of the year 1978 is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under subsection (1) in relation to the University;

    • (c)

      the State will ensure that no University situated in the State charges fees in respect of the year 1978, or any part of that year;

    • (d)

      the State will ensure that the University furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the University for university purposes in respect of the year 1978; and

    • (e)

      the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission by the University, not later than such date as the Commission specifies, such statistical and other information as the Commission requires from the University in respect of the provision of tertiary education by the University during the year 1978.

  • (3)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to a University specified in Column 1 of Schedule 2 on the further condition that the State will ensure that the amount expended by the University for university purposes in respect of the year 1978, being purposes included in the purposes specified in Column 2 of Schedule 2 in relation to the University, is not less than the amount specified in Column 3 of Schedule 2 in relation to those purposes.

  • (3A)

    Where the amount expended by a University on university purposes (within the meaning of the States Grants (Universities Assistance) Act 1976) in respect of the year 1977 exceeded the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State in which that University was situated in relation to recurrent expenditure by that University on those purposes in respect of that year under section 5 of that Act, then, for the purposes of this Act, an amount equal to the excess in respect of that year shall be treated as if it had been expended by the University on university purposes (within the meaning of this Act) in respect of the year 1978.

  • (4)

    In this section, fees means tuition, examination, matriculation and other fees payable to a University by a student enrolled at, or applying for enrolment at, the University in connexion with a course of study or attendance at the University, and includes fees payable to the University in respect of the conferring of a degree or diploma, but does not include:

    • (a)

      fees the payment of which is voluntary;

    • (b)

      fees payable in respect of an organization of students, or of students and other persons, or in respect of the provision to students of amenities or services that are not of an academic nature;

    • (c)

      fees in respect of residential accommodation; or

    • (d)

      fees payable in connexion with, or in connexion with attendance for the purposes of, studies that are not included in the studies that are required or permitted to be undertaken for the purpose of obtaining a degree or diploma of the University.

7Special research grants
  • (1)

    In relation to each University specified in Column 1 of Schedule 3, there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to research expenses of the University in respect of the year 1978, the amount specified in Column 2 of that Schedule in relation to the University.

  • (2)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to a University on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the University without undue delay;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended by the University for the purpose of meeting the research expenses of the University in respect of the year 1978 is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section in relation to the University; and

    • (c)

      the State will ensure that the University furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the University for the purpose of meeting the research expenses of the University in respect of the year 1978.

8Grants for equipment
  • (1)

    A University specified in Column 1 of Schedule 4 may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Commission proposals for expenditure on equipment for use by the University.

  • (2)

    The Commission may approve a proposal submitted to it by a University under subsection (1) as an approved proposal of the University in respect of the year 1978 subject to such conditions as the Commission determines, and may revoke or vary any such proposal.

  • (3)

    Subject to subsection (5), in relation to each University specified in Column 1 of Schedule 4, there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the University in connexion with an approved proposal or approved proposals of the University in respect of the year 1978, the amount specified in Column 2 of that Schedule in relation to the University.

  • (4)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to a University on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the University without undue delay;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the University in connection with approved proposals for expenditure by the University in respect of the year 1978, being amounts expended before 1 January 1979 or expended on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date, is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section in relation to the University; and

    • (c)

      the State will ensure that the University furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure by the University in respect of the year 1978, being expenditure that occurred before 1 January 1979 or that occurred on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date.

  • (5)

    Financial assistance to a State under this section in relation to a University specified in Column 1 of Schedule 5 is granted on the further condition that the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the University in connection with approved proposals for expenditure by the University on equipment specified in Column 2 of Schedule 5 in relation to the University in respect of the year 1978, being amounts expended before 1 January 1979 or expended on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date is not less than the amount specified in Column 3 of Schedule 5 in relation to that equipment.

9Recurrent grants in respect of student residences and affiliated colleges
  • (1)

    There is payable to each State, for the purposes of financial assistance in relation to student residences and affiliated colleges of Universities situated in that State, in respect of the year 1978, amounts determined in accordance with this section.

  • (2)

    In relation to each student residence of a University, there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, in respect of the year 1978:

    • (a)

      an amount equal to the sum of $9,384 and the amount ascertained by multiplying $146.40 by the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in respect of that student residence; or

    • (b)

      an amount ascertained by multiplying $331.59 by the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to that student residence;

whichever is the lesser amount.

  • (3)

    In relation to each affiliated college of a University, there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, in respect of the year 1978, an amount ascertained by multiplying the basic grant in respect of that college by the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to that college.

  • (4)

    For the purposes of subsection (3), the basic grant in respect of an affiliated college is:

    • (a)

      if the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to that college is less than 50—$331.59;

    • (b)

      if the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to that college is more than 49 but less than 75—$331.59 reduced by $2.50 for each student by which the prescribed number of students exceeds 50;

    • (c)

      if the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to that college is more than 74 but less than 100—$269.02 reduced by $1.25 for each student by which the prescribed number of students exceeds 75; and

    • (d)

      if the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to that college is more than 99—$237.74 reduced by $0.20 for each student by which the prescribed number of students exceeds 100.

  • (5)

    For the purposes of subsections (2), (3) and (4), the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to a student residence or an affiliated college shall be ascertained, subject to subsection (6), by adding:

    • (a)

      the number of resident full‑time undergraduate students at that student residence or affiliated college in that year;

    • (b)

      one‑half of the number of resident full‑time post‑graduate students at that student residence or affiliated college in that year; and

    • (c)

      one‑tenth of the number of non‑resident students receiving tutorial assistance at that student residence or affiliated college in that year.

  • (6)

    Where, but for this subsection, the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to a student residence or affiliated college ascertained in accordance with subsection (5) would include a fraction, the prescribed number of students is:

    • (a)

      if the fraction is not less than one‑half—one more than the number so ascertained, disregarding the fraction; or

    • (b)

      in any other case—the number so ascertained, disregarding the fraction.

  • (7)

    Where a student residence or an affiliated college, or a part of such a residence or college was not in use during the whole of the academic year comprised in the year 1978, the Commission may determine that an amount payable under this section in respect of that year in relation to that residence or college shall be such part only of the amount that would otherwise be payable as the Commission thinks appropriate.

  • (8)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to a student residence or affiliated college of a University on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the University or to the body administering the student residence or affiliated college without undue delay;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended by the University or other body administering the student residence or affiliated college, for the provision of tutorial assistance to students of, or for meeting the administrative costs of, the student residence or affiliated college in respect of the year 1978, is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section in relation to that student residence or affiliated college; and

    • (c)

      the State will ensure that the University or other body administering the student residence or affiliated college furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the University or other body for the provision of the tutorial assistance, or for meeting the administrative costs, referred to in paragraph (b).

  • (9)

    For the purposes of subsection (5), the number of students at a student residence, or affiliated college, included in a class of students referred to in that subsection in the year 1978 is the number that is the average of the maximum numbers of students of that class during the several terms of that year.

  • (10)

    This section does not apply in relation to a student residence or affiliated college that does not provide collegiate accommodation.

  • (11)

    In this section:

affiliated college, in relation to a University means a residential college (not being a student residence) affiliated with the University and approved by the Commission, for the purpose of this Act, as an affiliated college.

collegiate accommodation means residential accommodation (including related facilities) for students of a University, being accommodation that, having regard to the facilities and services provided for the students, is, in the opinion of the Commission, of a collegiate nature.

full‑time student means a student who is pursuing, at a University or at a college of advanced education, a course of study, either at undergraduate or at post‑graduate level, which the Commission is satisfied is such as reasonably to require the attention of the student on a full‑time basis.

non‑resident student, in relation to a student residence or an affiliated college, means a student of a University not occupying collegiate accommodation at that, or at any other, student residence or affiliated college, who is enrolled as a non‑resident student of that residence or college and is receiving at that residence or college tutorial assistance other than tutorial assistance that is provided by the relevant University to all students of that University pursuing a particular course of study.

resident full‑time post‑graduate student, in relation to a student residence or affiliated college, means a full‑time student who is a resident of the student residence or affiliated college occupying collegiate accommodation and is engaged at a University or at a college of advanced education in study or research at post‑graduate level.

resident full‑time undergraduate student, in relation to a student residence or affiliated college, means a full‑time student, not being a resident full‑time post‑graduate student, who is a resident of the student residence or affiliated college occupying collegiate accommodation.

student residence, in relation to a University, means a hall, college or other establishment at which any students of the University reside, being an establishment:

  • (a)

    administered by the University or by a body corporate established by the University; and

  • (b)

    approved by the Commission, for the purposes of this Act, as a student residence.

10Recurrent grants in respect of teaching hospitals
  • (1)

    In relation to each University specified in Column 1 of Schedule 6, there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of contributions by the University towards the appropriate costs, in respect of the year 1978, of the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of the University, the amount specified in Column 2 of that Schedule in relation to the University.

  • (2)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to the teaching hospitals of a University on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the University without undue delay;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended by the University in making contributions towards the appropriate costs, in respect of the year 1978, of the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of the University is not less than the sum of the amounts paid to the State by way of financial assistance under this section in relation to the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of that University; and

    • (c)

      the State will ensure that the University furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the University in making contributions towards the appropriate costs, in respect of the year 1978, of the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of the University.

  • (3)

    In this section, appropriate costs, in relation to a teaching hospital of a University, are:

    • (a)

      the expenditure (other than expenditure on building projects or expenditure on the purchase of equipment) incurred by the hospital in relation to parts of the hospital used exclusively by students enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine, or School of Medicine, of the University, and by students enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine, or School of Medicine, of any other University in relation to which that hospital is a teaching hospital, and by their teachers and to facilities and equipment so used in connexion with those parts of the hospital; and

    • (b)

      the expenditure, up to an amount of $3,300, incurred in the purchase of books and periodicals for the medical library of the hospital.

11Building projects etc.
  • (1)

    Subject to subsection (3), in relation to each building project specified, in relation to a University, in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7, in respect of the year 1978, there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building project, the amount specified in Column 3 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

  • (2)

    Subject to subsection (3), where the Minister approves, under section 4, a building project of a University in respect of the year 1978, there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to that project, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (3)

    The total of the amounts payable to a State under subsections (1) and (2) shall not exceed the total of the amounts specified in Column 3 of Part I of Schedule 7 in relation to the Universities specified in Column 1 of that Part of that Schedule that are situated in that State.

  • (4)

    The Commission may approve a minor building project submitted to it by a University as an approved minor building project of the University in respect of the year 1978 and, where it does so, it shall also approve an amount, being an amount equal to the estimated cost of the project, as the approved cost of the project and the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (5)

    The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given by it under subsection (4) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this subsection and subsection (6)) the amount as so varied shall be deemed to have been, as from the date on which the project was approved under subsection (4), the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (6)

    Subject to subsection (7), where the Commission approves, under subsection (4), a minor building project of a University in respect of the year 1978, there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect of the year 1978, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (7)

    The total of the amounts payable to a State under subsection (6), in relation to a University specified in Column 1 of Part II of Schedule 7, shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 2 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the University.

  • (8)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to an approved building project of a University subject to the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will pay each amount paid to it under this section in relation to the project to the University without undue delay;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1979 in connection with the project will be not less than the sum of the amounts paid to the State in relation to the project under this Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to Universities;

    • (c)

      the State will ensure that information in respect of the project is furnished to the Commission in accordance with the relevant direction under paragraph 4(1)(d);

    • (d)

      the State will ensure that the project will be carried out in accordance with the directions (if any) given by the Commission under subsection 4(5);

    • (e)

      the State will ensure that, if the Commission so requests a University, there will be furnished to the Commission by the University, as soon as practicable after such date as the Commission specifies, such particulars as are specified by the Commission concerning the progress or expected progress of the work or matter constituting the project; and

    • (f)

      the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the amounts expended in respect of work carried out before 1 January 1979 in connection with the approved project.

  • (10)

    In this section, a reference to an approved building project of a University shall be read as a reference to:

    • (a)

      a building project specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7 in relation to the University;

    • (b)

      a building project of the University approved by the Minister under paragraph 4(1)(a) as an approved building project of the University in respect of the year 1978; or

    • (c)

      a project approved by the Commission under subsection (4) as an approved minor building project of the University in respect of the year 1978.

11ABuilding project – Newman College
  • (1)

    There is payable to Victoria, for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of the year 1978 in relation to the building project specified in Column 2 of Part VII of Schedule 7, the amount specified in Column 3 of that Part.

  • (2)

    Financial assistance is granted to Victoria under this section in relation to the building project referred to in subsection (1) subject to the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will pay each amount paid to it under this section in relation to the project to the body administering Newman College without undue delay;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended, in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1979, in connection with the project, will be not less than the sum of the amounts paid to the State in relation to the project under this Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to States in connection with Universities;

    • (c)

      the State will ensure that information in respect of the project is furnished to the Commission in accordance with any relevant direction given under paragraph 4(1)(d); and

    • (d)

      the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the amounts expended in respect of work carried out before 1 January 1979 in connection with the project.

Part IIIColleges of Advanced Education12Interpretation
  • (1)

    In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

college purposes, in relation to a college of advanced education, means:

  • (a)

    the general teaching purposes of the college in connexion with courses of study and programs of continuing education provided at the college, being courses and programs approved by the Commission under section 13 (including preparatory work in connexion with proposed courses of study approved by the Commission under that section);

  • (b)

    building projects of the college, not being building projects that involve the purchase of land, in relation to each of which the total expenditure does not exceed $30,000 or an amount equal to 0.25 per centum of the amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 8 opposite to the name of the college in Column 1 of that Schedule, whichever is the lesser amount; and

  • (c)

    the acquisition of equipment in relation to each single item of which the total expenditure does not exceed $2,000.

minor building project, in relation to a college of advanced education, means a building project (other than a planning project of the college) included in a class of building projects determined by the Minister to be a class of minor building projects in respect of that college of advanced education, or of a class of colleges of advanced education in which that college is included.

planning project in relation to a college of advanced education, means a project by way of the planning of a building or other facilities included in a class of projects of that kind determined by the Minister to be a class of planning projects in respect of that college or of a class of colleges in which that college is included.

  • (2)

    Where a building project of a college of advanced education consists of, or includes, the erection, alteration or extension of a building, that project shall be deemed to include the provision of furnishings and equipment for the building, or for the altered parts or the extensions of the building, as the case may be.

13Approvals in respect of courses

For the purposes of this Act, the Commission may:

  • (a)

    approve courses of study and proposed courses of study in respect of a college of advanced education; and

  • (b)

    approve programs of continuing education in respect of a college of advanced education;

and may revoke or vary any such approval.

14Grants for expenditure on college purposes
  • (1)

    Subject to this Act, in relation to a college of advanced education specified in Column 1 of Part I of Schedule 8, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the expenditure of the college for college purposes in respect of the year 1978, the amount specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 8 in relation to that college.

  • (2)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to a college of advanced education on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will, without undue delay, pay to the college each amount paid to it under subsection (1) in relation to the college;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended by the college for college purposes in respect of the year 1978 is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under subsection (1) in relation to the college;

    • (c)

      the State will ensure that no college of advanced education situated in the State charges fees in respect of the year 1978 or any part of that year;

    • (d)

      the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the college for college purposes in respect of the year 1978; and

    • (e)

      the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than such date as the Commission specifies, such statistical and other information as the Commission requires in respect of the provision of tertiary education by the college during the year 1978.

  • (3)

    Where the amount payable to a State under section 6 of the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976 in relation to recurrent expenditure of a college of advanced education in respect of the year 1977 for college purposes within the meaning of that Act exceeds the amounts expended by that college in respect of that year for those purposes, the Minister may, at the request of the State in which that college is situated, being a request made not later than 30 June 1978, direct that the amount specified opposite to the name of that college in column 2 of Part I of Schedule 8 and the amount specified opposite to the name of the State in which the college is situated in column 3 of Part II of that Schedule shall each be increased by an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount of the excess, and this Act shall, upon the giving of the direction, have effect as if those increased amounts were specified in place of the amounts so specified.

  • (4)

    Where the total amount payable to a State under section 6 of the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976 in relation to the recurrent expenditure of all the colleges of advanced education in the State in respect of the year 1977 for college purposes within the meaning of that Act exceeds the sum of the amounts expended by all the colleges in that State in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of that year for those purposes and of the amounts (if any) by which amounts specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 8 have been increased under subsection (3), the Minister may, at the request of the State, being a request made not later than 30 June 1978, direct that the amounts specified in relation to that State in columns 2 and 3 of Part II of that Schedule shall each be increased by an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount of the excess, and this Act shall, upon the making of the direction, have effect as if that increased amount were specified in place of the amount so specified.

  • (5)

    The Minister shall not, after he has given a direction under subsection (4) in relation to a State, give a direction, or a further direction, in relation to the State under subsection (3).

  • (6)

    An amount equal to the amount (if any) by which the sum of the amounts paid to a State for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to recurrent expenditure of a college of advanced education for college purposes in respect of the year 1977 exceeds the sum of the amounts of recurrent expenditure of the college in respect of that year for college purposes shall be deemed to have been paid to the State under this Act for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to expenditure of the college for college purposes in respect of the year 1978 and that first‑mentioned sum shall be deemed to have been reduced by an amount equal to the excess.

  • (6A)

    Where the amount expended by a college of advanced education on college purposes (within the meaning of the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976) in respect of the year 1977 exceeded the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State in which that college was situated in relation to recurrent expenditure by that college on those purposes in respect of that year under section 6 of that Act, then, for the purposes of this Act, an amount equal to the excess in respect of that year shall be treated as if it had been expended by the college on college purposes (within the meaning of this Act) in respect of the year 1978.

  • (7)

    In this section, fees means tuition, examination and other fees payable by a student enrolled at, or applying for enrolment at, a college of advanced education in connexion with a course of study at the college approved by the Commission under section 13, and includes fees payable by a student to the college of advanced education in respect of the conferring of a degree, diploma, certificate or other award in respect of such a course of study, but does not include:

    • (a)

      fees the payment of which is voluntary;

    • (b)

      fees payable to an organization of students;

    • (c)

      fees paid in respect of residential accommodation; and

    • (d)

      fees in respect of tuition provided in a program of continuing education approved under paragraph 13(b).

15Variations of amounts specified in Schedule 8
  • (1)

    At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1978, but subject to this section, the Minister may direct that this Act has effect as if all or any of the amounts specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 8 and Column 2 of Part II of Schedule 8 were varied in accordance with that direction, and, where the Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this subsection and subsections (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6)), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

  • (2)

    At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1978, but subject to this section, the Commission may direct that this Act has effect as if all or any of the amounts specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 8 and Column 2 of Part II of Schedule 8 were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Commission gives a direction with respect to the variation of any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this subsection and subsections (1), (3), (4), (5) and (6)), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

  • (3)

    A direction shall not be given under subsection (1) or (2) with respect to an amount specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 8 opposite to the name of a college of advanced education situated in a State, or with respect to an amount specified in Column 2 of Part II of Schedule 8 opposite to the name of a State, except at the request of the State.

  • (4)

    A direction shall not be given under subsection (1) or (2) with respect to the amount specified in Column 2 of Part II of Schedule 8 opposite to State College of Victoria System or Victoria Institute of Colleges System except at the request of Victoria.

  • (5)

    The Commission shall not give a direction under subsection (2) that will have the effect of varying an amount specified in column 2 of Part I of Schedule 8 opposite to the name of a college of advanced education:

    • (a)

      if that amount has previously been varied in accordance with a direction given under subsection (1); or

    • (b)

      if the amount as so varied would be greater or less, by more than $200,000, than the amount that is specified, or the amount that would, but for any direction or directions previously given under this section, be the amount that is specified, in that Column opposite to that name.

  • (6)

    A direction shall not be given under subsection (1) or (2) in relation to a State:

    • (a)

      that will have the effect of varying an amount in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 8, opposite to the names of the colleges situated in the State, and the amount specified in Column 2 of Part II of Schedule 8 opposite to the name of the State, is greater or less than the amount specified in column 3 of Part II of Schedule 8 opposite to the name of the State; or

    • (b)

      that could result in a State becoming liable to repay an amount to the Commonwealth under this Act.

  • (7)

    As soon as practicable after the Commission has given a direction under subsection (2), the Commission shall furnish to the Minister particulars of the direction.

  • (8)

    As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under subsection (1), or has been furnished under subsection (7) with particulars of a direction given by the Commission under subsection (2), the Minister shall cause a statement setting out particulars of the direction to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

16Grants for equipment
  • (1)

    A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Commission proposals for expenditure by the college in respect of the year 1978 on equipment for use by the college.

  • (2)

    The Commission may approve a proposal submitted to it under subsection (1) in relation to a college of advanced education as an approved proposal for expenditure by the college in respect of the year 1978 on equipment subject to such conditions as the Commission determines, and may revoke or vary any such approval.

  • (3)

    Subject to subsection (4), in relation to each approved proposal for expenditure by a college of advanced education in respect of the year 1978 on equipment, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the college or by the body administering the college in accordance with the approved proposal, an amount equal to the amount of the proposed expenditure.

  • (4)

    The sum of the amounts payable to a State other than Victoria under subsection (3) shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 9 in relation to the State.

  • (5)

    The sum of the amounts payable to Victoria under subsection (3) shall not exceed:

    • (a)

      in the case of amounts payable in relation to colleges of advanced education included in the State College of Victoria system—$481,000; and

    • (b)

      in the case of amounts payable to colleges of advanced education included in the Victoria Institute of Colleges system—$1,846,000.

  • (6)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (3) in relation to approved proposals for expenditure by a college of advanced education in respect of the year 1978 on equipment on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will, without undue delay, pay to the college each amount paid to it under subsection (3) in relation to those proposals;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the college in connection with approved proposals for expenditure by the college in respect of the year 1978, being amounts expended before 1 January 1979 or expended on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date, is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under subsection (3) in relation to the college; and

    • (c)

      the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the college in connection with approved proposals for expenditure by the college in respect of the year 1978, being expenditure that occurred before 1 January 1979 or that occurred on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date.

17Recurrent grants in respect of student residences and affiliated colleges
  • (1)

    There is payable to each State, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to student residences and affiliated colleges of colleges of advanced education in the State, in respect of the year 1978, amounts determined in accordance with this section.

  • (2)

    In relation to each college of advanced education providing collegiate accommodation at a student residence or at student residences, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, in respect of the year 1978:

    • (a)

      an amount equal to the sum of $9,384 and the amount ascertained by multiplying $146.40 by the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in respect of that student residence; or

    • (b)

      an amount ascertained by multiplying $331.59 by the number of resident full‑time students at the student residence, or at the student residences, as the case may be, in the year 1978;

whichever is the lesser amount.

  • (3)

    In relation to each affiliated college of a college of advanced education, there is payable to the State in which the college of advanced education is situated, in respect of the year 1978, an amount ascertained by multiplying the basic grant in respect of the affiliated college by the number of resident full‑time students at the affiliated college in the year 1978.

  • (4)

    For the purposes of subsection (3), the basic grant in respect of an affiliated college is:

    • (a)

      if the number of resident full‑time students at the college in the year 1978 is less than 50—$331.59;

    • (b)

      if the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to that college is more than 49 but less than 75—$331.59 reduced by $2.50 for each student by which the prescribed number of students exceeds 50;

    • (c)

      if the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to that college is more than 74 but less than 100—$269.02 reduced by $1.25 for each student by which the prescribed number of students exceeds 75; and

    • (d)

      if the prescribed number of students for the year 1978 in relation to that college is more than 99—$237.74 reduced by $0.20 for each student by which the prescribed number of students exceeds 100.

  • (5)

    Where a student residence or affiliated college, or a part of such residence or college, was not in use during the whole of the academic year comprised in the year 1978, the Commission may determine that an amount payable under this section in respect of that year in relation to that residence or college shall be such part only of the amounts that would otherwise be payable as the Commission thinks appropriate.

  • (6)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State in accordance with this section in relation to a student residence or student residences, or to an affiliated college, of a college of advanced education on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      in the case of financial assistance in relation to a student residence or student residences of a college of advanced education:

    • (i)

      the State will, without undue delay, pay to the college of advanced education each amount of that financial assistance paid to it in relation to the student residence or student residences;

    • (ii)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended by, or on behalf of, the college of advanced education for the purpose of meeting the administrative costs of the student residence or student residences in respect of the year 1978 is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section in relation to the student residence or student residences of the college; and

    • (iii)

      the State will ensure that the college of advanced education furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure by, or on behalf of, the college for the purpose of meeting the administrative costs of the student residence or student residences in respect of the year 1978; and

    • (b)

      in the case of financial assistance in relation to an affiliated college of a college of advanced education:

    • (i)

      the State will, without undue delay, pay to the college of advanced education or other body administering the affiliated college an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to that affiliated college;

    • (ii)

      that the State will ensure that the amount expended by the college of advanced education or other body administering the affiliated college for meeting the administrative costs of that affiliated college in respect of the year 1978 is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section in relation to that affiliated college; and

    • (iii)

      the State will ensure that the college of advanced education or other body administering the affiliated college furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the college or other body for meeting the administrative costs of the affiliated college in respect of the year 1978.

  • (7)

    For the purposes of this section, the number of resident full‑time students of a student residence or affiliated college in the year 1978 is the number that is the average of the maximum numbers of such students during the several terms of that year.

  • (8)

    This section does not apply in relation to a student residence or affiliated college that does not provide collegiate accommodation and, for the purposes of this section, no account shall be taken of resident full‑time students occupying non‑collegiate accommodation.

  • (9)

    In this section:

affiliated college, in relation to a college of advanced education, means a residential college (not being a student residence) affiliated with the college of advanced education and approved by the Commission, for the purpose of this Act, as an affiliated college.

collegiate accommodation means residential accommodation (including related facilities) for students of a college of advanced education, being accommodation that, having regard to the facilities and services provided for the students, is, in the opinion of the Commission, of a collegiate nature.

full‑time student means a student who is pursuing, at a college of advanced education or at a university, a course of study that the Commission is satisfied is such as would reasonably require full‑time study.

non‑collegiate accommodation means residential accommodation (including related facilities) for students of a college of advanced education, other than collegiate accommodation.

resident full‑time student, in relation to a student residence or an affiliated college, means a full‑time student who:

  • (a)

    is a resident of the student residence or affiliated college; and

  • (b)

    in the case of a student of a college of advanced education—is pursuing a course of study approved by the Commission under paragraph 13(a).

student residence, in relation to a college of advanced education, means a hall, college or other establishment at which any students of the college reside, being an establishment:

  • (a)

    administered by:

  • (i)

    the college or the body administering the college; or

  • (ii)

    a body established by the college or by the body administering the college; and

  • (b)

    approved by the Commission, for the purposes of this Act, as a student residence.

term includes a semester and any other period into which an academic year is divided.

18Building projects etc.
  • (1)

    Subject to section 19, in relation to each building project specified, in relation to a college of advanced education, in Column 2 of Part III of Schedule 7, in respect of the year 1978 there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building project, the amount specified in Column 3 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

  • (2)

    Subject to section 19, where the Minister approves a building project of a college of advanced education under section 4, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to that project, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (3)

    The Commission may approve:

    • (a)

      a minor building project submitted to it by a State as an approved minor building project of the college in respect of the year 1978; or

    • (b)

      a planning project submitted to it by a State as an approved planning project of the college in respect of the year 1978;

and, if it approves such a project, it shall also approve an amount, being an amount equal to the estimated cost of the project, as the approved cost of the project and the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (4)

    The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given by it under subsection (3) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a project in respect of the year 1978, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this subsection and subsection (5)), the amount as so varied shall be deemed to have been, as from the date on which the project was approved under subsection (3), the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (5)

    Subject to section 19, where the Commission approves a minor building project, or a planning project, of a college of advanced education under subsection (3), there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project, an amount equal to the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (6)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to an approved building project or an approved planning project of a college of advanced education subject to the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will, without undue delay, pay to the college each amount paid to it under this section in relation to the project;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1979 in connection with the project will be not less than the sum of the amounts paid to the State in relation to the project under this Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to colleges of advanced education;

    • (c)

      the State will ensure that information in respect of the project is furnished to the Commission in accordance with the relevant direction under paragraph 4(1)(d);

    • (d)

      the State will ensure that the project will be carried out in accordance with the directions (if any) given by the Commission under subsection 4(5);

    • (e)

      the State will, if the Commission so requests, cause to be furnished to the Commission, as soon as practicable after such date as the Commission specifies, such particulars as are specified by the Commission concerning the progress or expected progress of the work or matter constituting the project; and

    • (f)

      the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the amounts expended in respect of work carried out before 1 January 1979 in connection with the approved project.

  • (8)

    In this section, a reference to an approved building project of a college of advanced education shall be read as a reference to:

    • (a)

      a building project specified in Column 2 of Part III of Schedule 7 in relation to the college;

    • (b)

      a building project of a college of advanced education approved by the Minister under paragraph 4(1)(b) as an approved building project of the college in respect of the year 1978; or

    • (c)

      a project approved by the Commission under subsection (3) of this section as an approved minor building project of the college in respect of the year 1978.

18AAdditional grants in respect of cost increases for major building projects of colleges of advanced education
  • (1)

    Where, by reason of increases in the cost of an approved building project of a college of advanced education, the expenditure on that project in respect of the year 1978 exceeds, or appears to the Minister likely to exceed, the amount of the approved expenditure on that project in respect of that year, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project, in addition to the amount payable in respect of the project under section 18, such amount as the Minister determines for the purposes of this section, not exceeding the amount of the excess or likely excess.

  • (2)

    The total of the amounts payable to a State under subsection (1) shall not exceed the amount specified in column 2 of Part VIII of Schedule 7 opposite to the name of the State in column 1 of that Part.

  • (3)

    Subsections 18(6) and (7) apply to a grant of financial assistance under this section as if that grant were a grant of financial assistance under section 18.

  • (4)

    In this section:

    • (a)

      a reference to an approved building project of a college of advanced education shall be read as a reference to:

    • (i)

      a building project specified in column 2 of Part III of Schedule 7 in relation to the college; or

    • (ii)

      a building project of the college approved by the Minister under paragraph 4(1)(b) as an approved building project of the college in respect of the year 1978; and

    • (b)

      a reference to the amount of the approved expenditure on a project in respect of the year 1978 shall be read as a reference to:

    • (i)

      where the project is a building project specified in column 2 of Part III of Schedule 7 in relation to a college of advanced education—the amount specified in column 3 of Part III of that Schedule in relation to that project; or

    • (ii)

      where the project is a building project of a college of advanced education approved by the Minister under paragraph 4(1)(b)—the amount of expenditure approved by the Minister under subsection 4(3) as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

19Limits on payments in respect of building projects
  • (1)

    The total of the amounts payable to a State under subsections 18 (1) and (2) shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7 in relation to the State.

  • (2)

    The total of the amounts payable to a State other than Victoria under subsection 18(5) in relation to minor building projects of colleges of advanced education situated in the State shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 3 of Part IV of Schedule 7 in relation to the State.

  • (3)

    The total of the amounts payable to a State other than Victoria under subsection 18(5) in respect of approved planning projects of colleges of advanced education situated in the State shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 4 of Part IV of Schedule 7 opposite to the name of the State in Column 1 of that Part.

  • (4)

    The total of the amounts payable to Victoria in respect of approved minor building projects of colleges of advanced education included in the State College of Victoria System shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 3 of Part IV of Schedule 7 opposite to State College of Victoria System in Column 1 of that Part.

  • (5)

    The total of the amounts payable to Victoria in respect of approved minor building projects of colleges of advanced education included in the Victoria Institute of Colleges System shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 3 of Part IV of Schedule 7 opposite to Victoria Institute of Colleges System in Column 1 of that Part.

  • (6)

    The total of the amounts payable to Victoria in respect of approved planning projects of colleges of advanced education included in the State College of Victoria System shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 4 of Part IV of Schedule 7 opposite to State College of Victoria System in Column 1 of that Part.

  • (7)

    The total of the amounts payable to Victoria in respect of approved planning projects of colleges of advanced education included in the Victoria Institute of Colleges System shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 4 of Part IV of Schedule 7 opposite to Victoria Institute of Colleges System in Column 1 of that Part.

Part IVTechnical and further education institutions20Interpretation
  • (1)

    In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

approved auditor means, in relation to the furnishing of a statement for the purposes of a condition of a grant of financial assistance to a State under this Part:

  • (a)

    in a case where the Commission has approved, in writing, a person to be an approved auditor of that State—that person; or

  • (b)

    in any other case—the Auditor‑General of that State.

capital expenditure means:

  • (a)

    expenditure on a building project other than a building project the estimated cost of which does not exceed $2,000; or

  • (b)

    expenditure exceeding $2,000 for the purchase of, or otherwise in connexion with, a single item of equipment.

minor building project means a building project:

  • (a)

    that does not involve the purchase of land; and

  • (b)

    the estimated cost of which exceeds $2,000 but does not exceed $60,000.

recurrent expenditure means expenditure other than capital expenditure.

student residence, in relation to a technical and further education institution, means a hall, college or other establishment at which any students of the institution reside, being an establishment:

  • (a)

    administered by:

  • (i)

    the authority or body administering the institution; or

  • (ii)

    a body established by the authority or body administering the institution; and

  • (b)

    approved by the Commission, for the purposes of this Part, as a student residence.

technical and further education means education provided by way of a course of instruction or training:

  • (a)

    that is, or that is preparatory to, a course of a kind relevant to a trade, technical or other skilled occupation; or

  • (b)

    that otherwise meets the educational needs of persons who are not enrolled in a full‑time course of primary or secondary education at a school.

  • (2)

    Where a building project consists of the erection, alteration or extension of a building, the project shall be deemed to include the provision of furnishings and equipment for the building, or for the altered parts or the extensions of the building, as the case may be.

21Grants for recurrent expenditure
  • (1)

    There is payable to a State under this section, for the purpose of financial assistance to the State in relation to recurrent expenditure in connexion with the provision, in respect of the year 1978, of technical and further education at technical and further education institutions situated in the State, the amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 10 in relation to the State.

  • (2)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended by the State and by instrumentalities of the State, by way of recurrent expenditure in connexion with the provision, in respect of the year 1978, of technical and further education at technical and further education institutions in the State is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under subsection (1);

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that no technical and further education institution situated in the State charges fees in respect of the year 1978 or any part of that year;

    • (c)

      the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a certificate by an approved auditor to the effect that the auditor has satisfied himself that the condition specified in paragraph (a) has been fulfilled; and

    • (d)

      the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than such date as the Commission specifies, such statistical and other information as the Commission requires in respect of the provision of technical and further education in that State during the year 1978.

  • (3)

    In this section, fees means tuition, examination and other fees payable to a technical and further education institution by a student enrolled at, or applying for enrolment at, the institution in connexion with his course of study or attendance at the institution, and includes fees payable to the institution in respect of the awarding of a qualification, but does not include:

    • (a)

      fees the payment of which is voluntary;

    • (b)

      fees payable in respect of an organization of students, or of students and other persons, or in respect of the provision to students of amenities or services that are not of an academic nature;

    • (c)

      fees in respect of residential accommodation; or

    • (d)

      fees payable in connexion with, or in connexion with attendance for the purposes of, studies that are not, or that are not preparatory to, studies for the purpose of obtaining a qualification relevant to a trade, technical or other skilled occupation.

22Proposals for expenditure on training and data processing
  • (1)

    A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Commission a proposal for expenditure in connexion with a program, connected with the provision of technical and further education in the State, that is proposed to be carried out in the year 1978, being a program by way of:

    • (a)

      the provision of training for members of the staff of a technical and further education institution, or an authority administering a technical and further education institution, being training designed to improve the efficiency of those members in the performance of their work for the institution or authority and provided by such an institution or authority or by another body on behalf of such an institution or authority; or

    • (b)

      the development, by a technical and further education institution or by an authority administering a technical and further education institution, of a system for the collection and processing of statistical or other material relating to technical and further education.

  • (2)

    The Commission may approve a proposal submitted to it by a State under subsection (1) as an approved proposal for expenditure by the State in respect of the year 1978, and may revoke or vary any such approval.

  • (3)

    There is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of the State, in accordance with an approved proposal or approved proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of the year 1978 in connexion with a program or programs referred to in paragraph (1)(a), the amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 11 in relation to the State.

  • (4)

    There is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to recurrent expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of the State, in accordance with an approved proposal or approved proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of the year 1978 in connexion with a program or programs referred to in paragraph (1)(b), the amount specified in Column 3 of Schedule 11 in relation to the State.

  • (5)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (3) on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals of expenditure by the State in connexion with programs referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that subsection; and

    • (b)

      the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by an approved auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals for expenditure by the State in connexion with programs referred to in paragraph (1)(a).

  • (6)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (4) on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals of expenditure by the State in connexion with programs referred to in paragraph (1)(b) is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that subsection; and

    • (b)

      the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by an approved auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals for expenditure by the State in connexion with programs referred to in paragraph (1)(b).

23Variation of amounts in Schedule 11
  • (1)

    At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1978, but subject to this section, the Minister may, at the request of a State, direct that this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in Columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 11 in relation to the State were varied in accordance with that direction, and, where the Minister gives a direction with respect of the variation of any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this subsection and subsections (2), (3) and (4)), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

  • (2)

    At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1978, but subject to this section, the Commission may, at the request of the State, direct that this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in Columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 11 in relation to a State were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Commission gives a direction with respect to the variation of any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this subsection and subsections (1), (3) and (4)), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

  • (3)

    The Commission shall not give a direction under subsection (2):

    • (a)

      that will have the effect of varying the amounts specified in Columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 11 in relation to a State if those amounts have previously been varied in accordance with a direction given under subsection (1); or

    • (b)

      that will have the effect of varying an amount specified in Column 2 or 3 to an amount that is greater or less, by more than $200,000, than the amount that is specified or the amount that would, but for any direction or directions previously given under this section, be the amount specified, in that Column.

  • (4)

    A direction shall not be given under subsection (1) or (2) in relation to a State:

    • (a)

      that will have the effect of varying amounts in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified in Columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 11 in relation to the State is greater or less than the amount specified in Column 4 of that Schedule in relation to the State; or

    • (b)

      that will result in a State becoming liable to repay an amount to the Commonwealth under this Act.

24Other recurrent grants
  • (1)

    A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Commission, a proposal for recurrent expenditure in connexion with the provision of technical and further education in that State, being a proposal for expenditure in relation to:

    • (a)

      curriculum development;

    • (b)

      the assessment of community needs for technical and further education;

    • (c)

      the development of techniques for enabling a student to control the pace at which he makes progress in a course of study;

    • (d)

      the publicizing of technical and further education;

    • (e)

      the provision of training that is preparatory to, or supplementary to, a course of technical and further education;

    • (f)

      the provision of counselling services at technical and further education institutions;

    • (g)

      the provision, or improvement, of external study facilities;

    • (h)

      the provision in a technical and further education institution, for persons who are undertaking full‑time primary or secondary education, of programs designed to introduce those persons to technical and further education;

    • (i)

      the taking of measures to increase the scope of courses of technical and further education;

    • (j)

      the taking of measures to improve safety, health and welfare at technical and further education institutions;

    • (k)

      the taking of measures to improve the planning of major building projects;

    • (l)

      the improvement of educational materials and resources;

    • (m)

      the provision of assistance towards the administrative costs of student residences; and

    • (n)

      the provision of assistance towards the operating costs of a system for the collection and processing of statistical or other material relating to technical and further education.

  • (2)

    For the purposes of this section, the Commission may approve a proposal submitted to it by a State under subsection (1) as an approved proposal for expenditure by the State in respect of the year 1978, and may revoke or vary any such approval.

  • (3)

    There is payable to a State specified in Column 1 of Schedule 12, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to recurrent expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of a State, in accordance with an approved proposal or approved proposals for expenditure by that State in respect of the year 1978, the amount specified in Column 2 of that Schedule in relation to that State.

  • (4)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (3) on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of the year 1978 is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that subsection; and

    • (b)

      the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by an approved auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to recurrent expenditure by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of the year 1978.

25Grants for recurrent expenditure in connexion with programs of expenditure on voluntary adult education
  • (1)

    For the purposes of this section, the Commission may approve a body, whether incorporated or unincorporated, that is recommended to the Commission by the Minister of a State who is responsible, or principally responsible, for the administration of matters relating to technical and further education in the State as the approved authority of that State for the purposes of this section.

  • (2)

    The Commission may revoke or vary any approval given under subsection (1).

  • (3)

    There is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in connexion with programs of adult education to be carried out in the year 1978 in the State, the amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 13 in relation to the State.

  • (4)

    Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the conditions that:

    • (a)

      the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the approved authority of the State without undue delay;

    • (b)

      the State will ensure that the amount expended by the approved authority of the State in making contributions towards the recurrent expenditure of a relevant body, or of relevant bodies, in connexion with the provision, in the year 1978, by that body, or those bodies, of courses of adult education is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under subsection (3); and

    • (c)

      the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1979, a statement by an approved auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the approved authority of the State in making contributions towards the recurrent expenditure of a relevant body, or of relevant bodies, in connexion with the provision, in the year 1978, by that body, or those bodies, of courses of adult education.

  • (5)

    In this section:

    • (a)

      a reference to a relevant body is a reference to a body (other than a body established by or on behalf of the Government of a State) that is not conducted for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals; and

    • (b)

      a reference to a course of adult education, in relation to a relevant body, is a reference to a part‑time course of education, being a course in respect of which:

    • (i)

      attendance is voluntary; and

    • (ii)

      no award is made, in respect of the completion of the course, or of a part of the course, that is intended as a qualification for any employment.

26Building projects etc.
  • (1)

    In relation to each building project specified, in relation to a technical and further education institution, in Column 2 of Part V of Schedule 7, in respect of the year 1978, there is payable to the State in which the institution is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project, the amount specified in Column 3 of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

  • (2)

    Subject to subsection (3), where the Minister approves a building project of a technical and further education institution under paragraph 4(1)(c), in respect of the year 1978, there is payable to the State in which the institution is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1978.

  • (3)

    The total of the amounts payable to a State under subsections (1) and (2) shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7 in relation to the State.

Total, Queensland

9,199,000

South Australia—

Roseworthy Agricultural College

Student union at an estimated cost to complete of $14,000

14,000

Student residences at an estimated cost to complete of $155,000

155,000

Salisbury College of Advanced Education

Relocation of science laboratories at an estimated cost to complete of $11,000

10,000

South Australian Institute of Technology

Alterations to Playford building at an estimated cost to complete of $1,065,000

1,062,040

Alterations and extensions to buildings on The Levels campus at an estimated cost to complete of $262,000

176,960

Sturt College of Advanced Education

Library/teaching resources centre at an estimated cost to complete of $812,000

812,000

Alterations to theatre at an estimated cost to complete of $374,000

374,000

Torrens College of Advanced Education

Stages 4 and 5 buildings at an estimated cost to complete of $4,303,000

3,627,000

Total, South Australia

6,231,000

Western Australia—

Churchlands Teachers College

Music and drama facilities at an estimated cost to complete of $703,000

703,000

Teaching accommodation at an estimated cost to complete of $112,000

112,000

Business studies building at an estimated cost to complete of $1,000,000

725,000

Western Australian Institute of Technology

Engineering building stage 4 at an estimated cost to complete of $55,000

52,000

General facilities, Muresk at an estimated cost to complete of $27,000

26,000

Therapy building—Shenton Park at an estimated cost to complete of $235,000

235,000

Health science building at an estimated cost to complete of $2,367,000

1,450,000

Applied science building at an estimated cost to complete of $1,653,000

1,453,000

Muresk campus library at an estimated cost to complete of $120,000

120,000

Total, Western Australia

4,876,000

Tasmania—

Tasmanian College of Advanced Education

Complete library at an estimated cost of $1,300,000

1,300,000

Art building at an estimated cost to complete of $727,000

727,000

Total, Tasmania

2,027,000

Total, All States

51,910,985

Part IVGrants for projects of colleges of advanced education

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

State

Grants for building projects in respect of 1978

Grants for minor building projects in respect of 1978

Grants for planning projects in respect of 1978

$

$

$

New South Wales........................

13,827,000

1,520,000

327,000

Victoria—

15,750,985

State College of Victoria System....................................

631,000

55,000

Victoria Institute of Colleges System....................................

1,149,000

159,000

Queensland...................................

9,199,000

993,000

118,000

South Australia............................

6,231,000

671,000

60,000

Western Australia.......................

4,876,000

486,857

125,143

Tasmania......................................

2,027,000

327,000

7,000

Part VGrants for specified building projects of technical and further education institutions

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Institution providing technical and further education

Projects

Maximum grants in respect of 1978

$

New South Wales—

Campbelltown Technical College

Buildings for trade courses at an estimated cost to complete of $4,920,000

610,000

Glendale Technical College

Buildings for engineering trades and commercial courses—Planning and site development

191,000

Granville Technical College

Metal fabrication and building trades building at an estimated cost to complete of $1,175,000

1,156,000

Bricklaying and general studies building at an estimated cost to complete of $1,039,000

981,000

Hornsby Technical College

Automotive and electrical trades building at an estimated cost to complete of $2,291,000

432,000

Liverpool Technical College

Alterations to existing buildings at an estimated cost to complete of $1,009,000

1,009,000

Macquarie Fields Technical College

Centre for technical and further education at an estimated cost to complete of $214,000

214,000

Meadowbank Technical College

Arts and science buildings at an estimated cost to complete of $363,000

363,000

Mount Druitt Technical College

Buildings for engineering trades at an estimated cost to complete of $4,522,000

3,250,000

North Sydney Technical College

Buildings for trade courses at an estimated cost to complete of $3,349,000

1,028,000

T.V. Studio for technician training at an estimated cost to complete of $856,000

319,000

Ryde Technical College

School of hotel and catering administration at an estimated cost to complete of $3,087,000

3,087,000

Shellharbour Technical College

Centre for technical and further education at an estimated cost to complete of $241,000

241,000

Sydney Technical College

Business studies building at an estimated cost to complete of $7,435,000

1,788,000

Wollongong Technical College

Foundry and additional laboratories at an estimated cost to complete of $3,600,000

1,336,000

Victoria—

Box Hill Technical College

Buildings for engineering and building technology courses at an estimated cost to complete of $6,255,000

1,837,000

Humanities and science building—Planning and site development

214,000

Collingwood Technical College

Building for middle‑level courses at an estimated cost to complete of $6,978,000

2,456,000

Dandenong Technical College

Buildings for trade and commercial courses at an estimated cost to complete of $4,904,000

3,506,000

Footscray Technical College

Design activities

210,000

Newport Technical College

Buildings for engineering courses at an estimated cost to complete of $2,892,000

2,184,000

Buildings for electrical and building courses at an estimated cost to complete of $5,425,000

639,000

Preston Technical College

Learning resources centre and teaching block at an estimated cost to complete of $2,011,000

996,000

Applied Science and business studies buildings at an estimated cost to complete of $3,422,000

755,000

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Engineering building—Planning and site development

100,000

Queensland—

Bald Hills Technical College

Technology building at an estimated cost to complete of $4,216,000

1,066,000

Planning for automotive building and site services

819,000

Cairns Technical College

Automotive building at an estimated cost to complete of $321,000

321,000

Electrical building and learning resources centre at an estimated cost to complete of $3,917,000

1,754,000

Gold Coast College of Technical and Further Education

Planning and site development

381,000

Ipswich College of Technical and Further Education

Technology building and design of second stage at an estimated cost to complete of $4,640,000

1,131,000

Mount Gravatt Technical College

Automotive and technology buildings at an estimated cost to complete of $4,194,000

3,802,000

Design of administration building

78,000

Yeronga Technical College

Learning resources centre and classrooms at an estimated cost to complete of $1,468,000

1,468,000

South Australia—

Elizabeth Community College

Learning resource centre and classrooms at an estimated cost to complete of $2,303,000

1,995,000

Gilles Plains Community College

First stage of new college at an estimated cost to complete of $9,752,000

2,270,000

Noarlunga Community College

Design activities

52,000

Western Australia:

Balga Technical School

Classroom block at an estimated cost to complete of $847,000

847,000

Bentley Technical College

Rural Studies building—Planning and site development

100,000

Carine Technical School

First stage of a new college at an estimated cost to complete of $4,411,000

2,110,000

Thornlie Technical College

Trade courses building—Planning and site development

331,000

Tasmania—

Devonport Technical College

Engineering trades building at an estimated cost to complete of $547,000

547,000

Part VISummary of grants to states for specified building projects of technical and further education institutions

Column 1

Column 2

State

Total grant in respect of 1978

$

New South Wales..............................................................

16,005,000

Victoria...............................................................................

12,897,000

Queensland.........................................................................

10,820,000

South Australia..................................................................

4,317,000

Western Australia.............................................................

3,388,000

Tasmania............................................................................

547,000

Total...........................................................

47,974,000

Part VIIBuilding grant—Newman College

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Affiliated College

Project

Amount

$

Victoria—

Newman College—Melbourne University

Fire Protection measures at an estimated cost to complete of $28,000

28,000

Part VIIIAdditional grants for major building projects of colleges of advanced education

Column 1

Column 2

State

Total of additional grants for major building projects of colleges of advanced education

$

New South Wales.......................................................................

427,000

Victoria........................................................................................

385,015

Queensland..................................................................................

Nil

South Australia...........................................................................

Nil

Western Australia.......................................................................

Nil

Tasmania......................................................................................

59,000

Total...........................................................................

871,015

Schedule 8

Section 14

Part IGrants for expenditure by colleges of advanced education on college purposes

Column 1

Column 2

College of Advanced Education

Grant in respect of 1978

$

New South Wales—

Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education

4,859,000

Armidale College of Advanced Education

3,815,000

Catholic College of Education

1,246,000

Catholic Teachers College, Sydney

2,160,000

Cumberland College of Health Sciences

4,881,000

Good Samaritan Teachers College

446,000

Goulburn College of Advanced Education

2,945,000

Hawkesbury Agricultural College

4,418,000

Kuring‑gai College of Advanced Education

6,028,000

Mitchell College of Advanced Education

7,099,000

Nepean College of Advanced Education

2,888,000

New South Wales Higher Education Board

1,230,000

New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music

1,871,000

Newcastle College of Advanced Education

7,173,000

Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education

2,434,000

Nursery School Teachers College

737,000

Orange Agricultural College

1,063,000

Riverina College of Advanced Education

8,027,000

Sydney College of the Arts

2,439,000

Sydney Kindergarten Teachers College

1,109,000

Sydney Teachers College

8,108,000

The Guild Teachers College

1,095,000

The Milperra College of Advanced Education

2,038,000

The New South Wales Institute of Technology

17,177,000

Wollongong Institute of Education

3,299,000

Victoria—

State College of Victoria—

State College of Victoria

467,000

State College of Victoria—Burwood

4,815,000

State College of Victoria—Coburg

3,715,000

State College of Victoria—Frankston

3,337,000

State College of Victoria—Hawthorn

4,143,000

State College of Victoria—Institute of Catholic Education

3,684,000

State College of Victoria—Institute of Early Childhood Development

2,300,000

State College of Victoria—Melbourne

12,291,000

State College of Victoria—Rusden

6,606,000

State College of Victoria—Toorak

4,006,000

Victoria Institute of Colleges—

Ballarat College of Advanced Education

6,058,000

Bendigo College of Advanced Education

6,384,000

Caulfield Institute of Technology

10,371,000

Footscray Institute of Technology

6,141,000

Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education

4,243,000

Lincoln Institute

5,816,000

Prahran College of Advanced Education

3,244,000

Preston Institute of Technology

5,827,000

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

27,576,000

Swinburne College of Technology

11,987,000

The Victorian College of the Arts

1,447,000

Victoria Institute of Colleges

1,041,000

Victorian College of Pharmacy

1,988,000

Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education

2,967,000

Queensland—

Board of Advanced Education

498,000

Brisbane Kindergarten Teachers College

1,422,000

Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education

5,823,000

Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education

8,338,000

Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education

6,903,000

Mount Gravatt College of Advanced Education

5,458,000

North Brisbane College of Advanced Education

4,299,000

Queensland Agricultural College

4,627,000

Queensland Conservatorium of Music

1,045,000

Queensland Institute of Technology

16,428,000

Townsville College of Advanced Education

2,405,000

South Australia—

Adelaide College of Advanced Education

4,016,000

Kingston College of Advanced Education

1,129,000

Murray Park College of Advanced Education

4,059,000

Roseworthy Agricultural College

2,219,000

Salisbury College of Advanced Education

3,625,000

South Australian Board of Advanced Education

432,000

South Australian Institute of Technology

14,317,000

Sturt College of Advanced Education

4,199,000

Torrens College of Advanced Education

7,191,000

Western Australia—

Churchlands Teachers College

5,036,000

Claremont Teachers College

2,335,000

Graylands Teachers College

1,206,000

Mount Lawley Teachers College

3,859,000

Western Australian Institute of Technology

30,295,000

Western Australian Teacher Education Authority

353,000

Western Australian Secondary Teachers College

4,496,000

Tasmania—

Tasmanian College of Advanced Education

9,326,000

Part IIUnallocated moneys and State aggregates for expenditure by colleges of advanced education on college purposes

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

State

Unallocated moneys in respect of 1978

State aggregates in respect of 1978

$

$

New South Wales...........................................

Nil

98,585,000

Victoria—

140,454,000

State College of Victoria System................

Nil

Victoria Institute of Colleges System.........

Nil

Queensland......................................................

Nil

57,246,000

South Australia...............................................

Nil

41,187,000

Western Australia..........................................

Nil

47,580,000

Tasmania.........................................................

Nil

9,326,000

Schedule 9Grants for equipment for colleges of advanced education

Section 16

Column 1

Column 2

State

Maximum grant for approved proposals in respect of 1978

$

New South Wales...........................................................

1,028,000

Victoria—

State College of Victoria System................................

481,000

Victoria Institute of Colleges System.........................

1,846,000

Queensland......................................................................

1,079,000

South Australia...............................................................

693,000

Western Australia...........................................................

427,000

Tasmania..........................................................................

170,000

Schedule 10General purpose recurrent grants in connexion with technical and further education

Section 21

Column 1

Column 2

State

Amount of grant in respect of 1978

$

New South Wales..........................................................................

13,986,000

Victoria...........................................................................................

8,921,000

Queensland.....................................................................................

3,173,000

South Australia..............................................................................

3,442,000

Western Australia..........................................................................

3,243,000

Tasmania.........................................................................................

806,000

Total..............................................................................

33,571,000

Schedule 11Grants for staff training and data processing in connexion with technical and further education

Section 22

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

State

Maximum grant for staff training

Maximum grant for data processing

Aggregate amount in respect of 1978

$

$

$

New South Wales.....................

869,000

110,000

979,000

Victoria......................................

379,000

253,000

632,000

Queensland................................

379,000

112,000

491,000

South Australia.........................

295,000

104,000

399,000

Western Australia....................

296,000

88,000

384,000

Tasmania...................................

90,000

12,000

102,000

Total........................

2,308,000

679,000

2,987,000

Schedule 12Other recurrent grants in connexion with technical and further education

Section 24

Column 1

Column 2

State

Maximum grant in respect of 1978

$

New South Wales..............................................................

5,210,000

Victoria...............................................................................

3,923,000

Queensland.........................................................................

1,628,000

South Australia..................................................................

1,326,000

Western Australia.............................................................

1,208,000

Tasmania............................................................................

386,000

Total.................................................................

13,681,000

Schedule 13Grants for programs of adult education related to technical and further education

Section 25

Column 1

Column 2

State

Maximum grant in respect of 1978

$

New South Wales..............................................................

84,000

Victoria...............................................................................

60,000

Queensland.........................................................................

37,000

South Australia..................................................................

25,000

Western Australia.............................................................

25,000

Tasmania............................................................................

12,000

Total..........................................................

243,000

Schedule 14Grants for minor building projects and equipment for technical and further education institutions

Section 27

Column 1

Column 2

State

Maximum grant in respect of 1978

$

New South Wales..........................................................................

1,852,000

Victoria...........................................................................................

1,352,000

South Australia..............................................................................

281,000

Western Australia..........................................................................

225,000

Tasmania.........................................................................................

225,000

Total.................................................................

3,935,000

Schedule 18

Section 52

New Schedules 1 and 2 to be inserted in the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976

Schedule 1

Section 6

Part I‑Grants for recurrent expenditure in respect of 1977 by specified colleges

Column 1

Column 2

College of Advanced Education

Grant in respect

of 1977

$

New South Wales‑

Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education..................

 4,531,000

Armidale College of Advanced Education..................................

3,630,000

Catholic College of Education.......................................................

934,000

Catholic Teachers College, Sydney...............................................

1,949,000

Cumberland College of Health Sciences......................................

4,311,000

Good Samaritan Teachers College................................................

526,000

Goulburn College of Advanced Education..................................

2,732,000

Hawkesbury Agricultural College.................................................

3,958,000

Kuring‑gai College of Advanced Education................................

5,436,000

Mitchell College of Advanced Education....................................

6,580,000

Nepean College of Advanced Education......................................

2,491,000

New South Wales Higher Education Board.................................

909,000

New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music....................

1,737,000

Newcastle College of Advanced Education.................................

6,632,000

Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education......................

 2,310,000

Nursery School Teachers College.................................................

677,000

Orange Agricultural College..........................................................

1,052,000

Riverina College of Advanced Education....................................

7,195,000

Sydney College of the Arts.............................................................

1,922,000

Sydney Kindergarten Teachers College.......................................

1,010,000

Sydney Teachers College................................................................

7,601,000

The Guild Teachers College...........................................................

1,056,000

The Milperra College of Advanced Education............................

1,670,000

The New South Wales Institute of Technology..........................

15,374,000

Wollongong Institute of Education...............................................

3,143,000

Total .........................................................................

89,366,000

Victoria‑

Ballarat College of Advanced Education.....................................

5,601,000

Bendigo College of Advanced Education....................................

5,827,000

Caulfield Institute of Technology..................................................

9,715,000

College of Nursing, Australia.........................................................

1,051,000

Footscray Institute of Technology.................................................

5,513,000

Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education................................

3,618,000

Lincoln Institute................................................................................

4,042,000

Prahran College of Advanced Education.....................................  

3,044,000

Preston Institute of Technology.....................................................

4,931,000

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology...................................

25,320,000

State College of Victoria.................................................................

545,000

State College of Victoria, Burwood..............................................

4,406,000

State College of Victoria, Coburg.................................................

3,446,000

State College of Victoria, Frankston.............................................

3,047,000

State College of Victoria, Hawthorn.............................................

3,753,000

State College of Victoria, Institute of Catholic Education........

2,533,000

State College of Victoria, Institute of Early Childhood Development...............................................................................

2,150,000

State College of Victoria, Melbourne...........................................

11,598,000

State College of Victoria, Rusden.................................................

5,978 000

State College of Victoria, Toorak..................................................

3,792,000

Swinburne College of Technology................................................

11,121,000

The Victorian College of the Arts.................................................

1,253,000

Victoria Institute of Colleges.........................................................

1,242,000

Victorian College of Pharmacy......................................................

1,881,000

Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education..........................

2,257,000

Total...........................................................................

127,664,000

Queensland‑

Board of Advanced Education.......................................................

445,000

Brisbane Kindergarten Teachers College.....................................

1,366,000

Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education.............................

4,965,000

Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education.......................

7,494,000

Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education...........................

6,073,000

Mount Gravatt College of Advanced Education.........................

4,551,000

North Brisbane College of Advanced Education........................

3,483,000

Queensland Agricultural College..................................................

3,969,000

Queensland Conservatorium of Music.........................................

769,000

Queensland Institute of Technology.............................................

13,980,000

Townsville College of Advanced Education...............................

2,066,000

Total...........................................................................

49,161,000

South Australia‑

Adelaide College of Advanced Education...................................

3,724,000

Kingston College of Advanced Education...................................

1,050,000

Murray Park College of Advanced Education.............................

3,680,000

Roseworthy Agricultural College..................................................

2,021,000

Salisbury College of Advanced Education..................................

3,360,000

South Australian Board of Advanced Education........................

461,000

South Australian Institute of Technology....................................

13,351,000

Sturt College of Advanced Education...........................................

3,742,000

Torrens College of Advanced Education.....................................

6,779,000

Total...........................................................................

38,168,000

Western Australia‑

Churchlands Teachers College.......................................................

3,879,000

Claremont Teachers College..........................................................

2,102,000

Graylands Teachers College...........................................................

1,505,000

Mount Lawley Teachers College...................................................

3,324,000

Western Australian Institute of Technology................................

28,415,000

Western Australian Secondary Teachers College.......................

3,949,000

Western Australian Teacher Education Authority......................

320,000

Total...........................................................................

43,494,000

Tasmania‑

Tasmanian College of Advanced Education................................

8,420,000

Part II‑Grants for recurrent expenditure in respect of 1977 by all or any colleges

State

Grant in respect of

1977

$

New South Wales.................................................................

121,000

Victoria..................................................................................

991,000

South Australia.....................................................................

67,000

Western Australia................................................................

739,000

Schedule 2Method of ascertaining grant for 1977 in respect of a student residence or an affiliated college

Section 7

  • 1.

    In relation to each college of advanced education providing collegiate accommodation at a student residence or at student residences, there is payable under section 7(1) to the State in which the college of advanced education is situated, in respect of the year 1977:

    • (a)

      an amount equal to the sum of $8,831 and the amount ascertained by multiplying $137.77 by the number of resident full‑time students at that student residence, or those student residences, as the case may be; or

    • (b)

      an amount ascertained by multiplying $312.04 by the number of resident full‑time students at that student residence, or those student residences, as the case may be, whichever is the lesser amount.

  • 2.

    In relation to each affiliated college of a college advanced education, there is payable under subsection 7(1) to the State in which the college of advanced education is situated an amount ascertained by multiplying the basic grant in respect of that affiliated college by the number of resident full‑time students at that affiliated college.

  • 3.

    For the purpose of paragraph 2, the basic grant in respect of an affiliated college is‑

    • (a)

      if the number of resident full‑time students at the college is less than 50‑$312.04;

    • (b)

      if the number of resident full‑time students at the college is more than 49 but less than 75‑$312.04 reduced by $2.36 for each student by which that number of students exceeds 50;

    • (c)

      if the number of resident full‑time students at the college is more than 74 but less than 100‑$253.16 reduced by $1.18 for each student by which that number of students exceeds 75;

    • (d)

      if the number of resident full‑time students at the college is more than 99‑$223.73 reduced by $0.19 for each student by which that number of students exceeds 100.

  • 4.

    Where a student residence or affiliated college or a part of such a residence or college was not in use during the whole of the academic year comprised in the year 1977, the Commission may determine that an amount payable under subsection 7(1) in respect of that year in relation to that residence or college shall be such part only of the amount that would otherwise be payable as the Commission thinks appropriate.

Schedule 19New Parts II and III to Schedule 3 to be inserted in Schedule 3 to the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976

Section 53

Part II‑Grants for all or any colleges and additional projects approved by the Minister‑1977

Column 1

Column 2

State

Maximum grant in respect of 1977

$

New South Wales 

1,036,500

Victoria............................................................

5,047,000

Queensland......................................................

627,900

South Australia...............................................

490,100

Western Australia..........................................

223,400

Tasmania.........................................................

54,000

Total.......................................

7,478,900

Part IIIMaximum Grants for all Approved Projects‑1977

Column 1

Column 2

State

Maximum grant in respect of

1977

$

New South Wales....................................................

24,208,500

Victoria.....................................................................

28,248,900

Queensland...............................................................

11,629,200

South Australia........................................................

7,997,900

Western Australia....................................................

3,525,400

Tasmania...................................................................

1,408,800

Total.................................................

77,018,700

Notes to theStates Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977

Note 1

The States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 158, 1999 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

Table of Acts

Act

Number

and year

Date

of Assent

Date of commencement

Application, saving or transitional provisions

 

States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977

158, 1977

10 Nov 1977

10 Nov 1977

States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Act 1978

34, 1978

9 June 1978

9 June 1978

Ss. 31 and 32

Administrative Changes (Consequential Provisions) Act 1978

36, 1978

12 June 1978

12 June 1978

S. 8

States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978

188, 1978

4 Dec 1978

Ss. 42, 47 and 48: 1 Jan 1978

Remainder: Royal Assent

States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Act 1979

41, 1979

11 June 1979

11 June 1979

Ss. 8, 9 and 34

Statute Law Revision Act 1981

61, 1981

12 June 1981

S. 117: Royal Assent (a)

Companies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1981

92, 1981

18 June 1981

Part I (ss. 1 and 2): Royal Assent

Div. 1 of Part XI (s. 36): 1 July 1981 (see s. 2(2) and Gazette 1981, No. S118)

Remainder: 1 July 1982 (see s. 2(3) and Gazette 1982, No. S124)

Statute Stocktake Act 1999

118, 1999

22 Sept 1999

22 Sept 1999

(a) The States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 was amended by section 117 only of the Statute Law Revision Act 1981, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

  • (1)

    Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Table of Amendments

  • ad. = added or inserted

     am. = amended rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

 

S. 3...........................................

am. Nos. 61 and 92, 1981

S. 6...........................................

am. No. 188, 1978

S. 8...........................................

am. No. 188, 1978

S. 9...........................................

am. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978; No. 41, 1979

S. 11.........................................

am. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978

S. 11A.......................................

ad. No. 34, 1978

rs. No. 188, 1978

S. 12 .......................................

am. No. 188, 1978

S. 14.........................................

am. No. 188, 1978

S. 16.........................................

am. No. 188, 1978; No. 41, 1979

S. 17.........................................

am. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978; No. 41, 1979

S. 18.........................................

am. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978

S. 18A.......................................

ad. No. 34, 1978

S. 21.........................................

am. No. 188, 1978

S. 26.........................................

am. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978

S. 26A.......................................

ad. No. 34, 1978

S. 27.........................................

am. No. 188, 1978

S. 28.........................................

am. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978

S. 30.........................................

am. No. 36, 1978

S. 31.........................................

am. No. 61, 1981

S. 32.........................................

am. No. 36, 1978

Ss. 33‑35..................................

am. No. 34, 1978

S. 36.........................................

am. Nos. 34 and 36, 1978

Schedules 1‑3...........................

rs. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978; No. 41, 1979

Schedules 4, 5..........................

rs. No. 34, 1978

Schedule 6................................

rs. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978; No. 41, 1979

Schedule 7................................

rs. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978

Schedule 8................................

rs. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978; No. 41, 1979

Schedule 9................................

rs. No. 34, 1978

Schedules 10‑12.......................

rs. Nos. 34 and 188, 1978; No. 41, 1979

Schedules 13, 14......................

rs. No. 34, 1978

2. Sections 38‑44 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Universities Assistance) Act 1976 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

3. Sections 45‑49 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Universities) Act 1976 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986 .

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

4. Sections 55‑58 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986 .

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

5. Section 59 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Universities) Act 1972 which was cited as the States Grants (Universities) Amendment Act 1972 prior to its repeal by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

6. Section 60 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Universities) Act 1970 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

7. Section 61 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Universities) Act 1969 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

8. Section 62 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1967 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

9. Section 63 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1966 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

10. Section 64 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1963 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

11. Section 65 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Universities) Act 1960 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

12. Section 67 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

13. Section 68 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

14. Section 69 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1967 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

15. Section 70 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 amended the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 which was repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1986.

 Section 4 commenced on 24 June 1986.

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