States Grants
(Universities) Act (No. 2) 1973
No. 60 of 1973
AN ACT
Relating
to the Grant of Financial Assistance to the States in Connexion with
Universities.
[Assented to 18 June 1973]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the
Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Universities) Act (No. 2) 1973.
(2) The States Grants (Universities) Act (No. 2) 1972, as amended by the States
Grants (Universities) Act 1973, is in this Act referred to as
the Principal Act.
(3) Section 1 of
the States Grants (Universities) Act 1973 is amended by omitting sub-section (3).
(4) The
Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Universities)
Act 1972–1973.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives
the Royal Assent.
3. Before section 12 of the Principal Act the following section is
inserted:—
Grants
for assistance to train additional social workers.
“11b. (1) In
relation to each University specified in the Ninth Schedule there is payable,
in each year specified in that Schedule, to the State in which the University
is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance, the amount specified in
that Schedule in relation to that University in respect of that year.
“(2) The financial assistance to a State by way of
payment of an amount under this section in relation to a University is granted
on the conditions that—
(a)
the State will, without undue delay, pay that amount to the University; and
(b)
the State will ensure that the amount so paid to the University is applied by
the University towards increasing the number of students being trained as
social workers at the University.”.
Second
Schedule.
4. (1) The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is
amended by omitting the words and figures relating to the University of
Adelaide and substituting the following words and figures:—
“University of
Adelaide........ | Library
Complex—completion...............................
| 1,700,000 |
Mawson
Laboratories—extension...........................
| 175,000 |
Dental
School—alterations and extensions..............
| 67,500 |
Waite Agricultural
Research Institute—alterations to Main Building and new Small Animals House.............
| 65,000 |
Medical
School alterations and renovations.............
| 52,500 |
R.
A. Fisher Laboratory—alterations.......................
| 40,000 |
Napier
Building—alterations..................................
| 35,000 |
Union
Building—extensions...................................
| 375,000 |
Sporting
facilities..................................................
| 20,000 |
Minor
works approved by the Commission..............
| 115,000 |
Site
works and services approved by the Commission
| 35,000 |
Planning
for 1976–78 triennium.............................
| 15,000 |
2,695,000”. |
(2) The Second
Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the portion of the
third column relating to Universities in the State of South Australia the
figures “6,395,000” and substituting the figures “6,447,500”.
Sixth
Schedule.
5. The Sixth Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from
the portion of that Schedule relating to the University of Adelaide the words
and figures relating to the Royal Adelaide Hospital and substituting the
following words and figures:—
“Royal Adelaide Hospital
| Alterations for
clinical medical departments, including Psychiatry............................................................................ | 20,000
|
20,000”.
|
Ninth
Schedule.
6. The Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the
following Schedule:—
“NINTH SCHEDULE Section
11b
Grants
to Provide for Additional Social Work Training
University
| Amount
of Grant
|
1973
| 1974
| 1975
|
$
| $
| $
|
University of Sydney..............................................
| 25,000
| 25,000
| 25,000
|
University of
Melbourne.........................................
| 40,000
| 100,000
| 100,000”.
|