Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE EDUCATION ACT 1945-1966.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Education Act 1945-1966.

Dated this twenty-second day of December, 1966.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for
Works for and on behalf of the Prime Minister

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Amendments of the Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards
Regulations. †

Interpretation.

1. Regulation 5 of the Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the definition of “benefits” the following definition:—

“‘ child ’ means—

(a) a person under the age of sixteen years; or

(b) a person who—

(i) has attained the age of sixteen years but is under the age of twenty-one years;

(ii) is receiving full-time education at a school, university or approved institution; and

(iii) is not in employment or engaged in work on his own account;”;

(b) by inserting after the definition of “parent” the following definition:—

“‘ training agreement’ means an agreement or arrangement under which—

(a) a person (in the next succeeding paragraph called ‘ the trainee’) is to pursue a course of study or training or both, or an amount is to be paid to another person in the event of a person (in the next succeeding paragraph also called ‘ the trainee’) failing to pursue a course of study or training or both; and

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on                                , 1966.

† Statutory Rules 1951, No. 9, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1966, No. 3, and see also Statutory Rules 1966, No. 3.

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(b) the trainee is to remain or engage in employment as set out in the agreement or arrangement, or an amount is to be paid to another person in the event of the trainee failing to remain or engage in employment as set out in the agreement or arrangement,

and includes any agreement or arrangement that has, either directly or indirectly, a like purpose or effect;”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(2.) A person (not being a person who is receiving, at a school or college, education of a class or kind that, in the opinion of the Board, is secondary education) who—

(a) is in receipt of payments by way of wages, salary or allowance from another person; and

(b) is a party to a training agreement with the other person,

shall be deemed to be in employment for the purposes of the definition of ‘child’ in the last preceding sub-regulation.

“(3.) The Board may, having regard to the nature of, and the amount earned or to be earned and the time occupied or to be occupied in, any employment or work or any intended employment or work, direct that the employment or work shall not be taken into account, or that the intended employment or work shall not, when begun, be taken into account, in determining whether or not, for the purposes of the definition of ‘child’ in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, a person is or was in employment or engaged in work on his own account.

“(4.) The Board may, having regard to the nature of the employment or work of persons included in a class of persons, direct that that employment or work shall not be taken into account in determining whether or not, for the purposes of the definition of ‘child’ in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, any person included in that class of persons is or was in employment or engaged in work on his own account.

“(5.) The Board may, at any time, revoke or vary a direction given under either of the last two preceding sub-regulations.”.

Amount of allowance— ordinary scholarships.

2. Regulation 13 of the Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3a.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(a) in a case other than that referred to in the next succeeding paragraph, an amount calculated at the rate of Two dollars for every Ten dollars by which the adjusted family income (excluding, where

that income exceeds Four thousand four hundred dollars, the amount of the excess) of the holder of the scholarship exceeds Two thousand two hundred dollars and Three dollars for every Ten dollars by which the adjusted family income of the holder of the scholarship exceeds Four thousand four hundred dollars; or”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “an amount of One hundred and fifty pounds for each child, other than the student, who is under the age of sixteen years and” and inserting in their stead the words “an amount of Three hundred dollars for each child, other than the student, who”.

The Schedule.

3. The Schedule to the Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations is amended by omitting Part II. and inserting in its stead the following Part:—

PART II.  Regulation 6a.

Classes of Students Eligible for Commonwealth Advanced Education
Scholarships.

Students enrolled at an approved institution in a course of a standard approved by the Board in—

Accountancy

Administration and Management

Agriculture

Applied Art

Applied Science

Architecture

Building

Cartography

Chiropody

Commerce

Commercial Practice

Dramatic Art

Engineering

Fine Art

Food and Nutrition

Home Science

Industrial Arts

Information Processing

Legal Training

Librarianship

Medical Laboratory Technology

Meteorology

Mining

Nursing

Occupational Therapy

Oenology

Optometry

Orthoptics

Pharmacy

Physical Education

Physiotherapy

Quantity Surveying

Science

Social Science

Speech Therapy

Surveying

Teacher Training

Town Planning

Additional amendments.

4. The Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations are amended as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Application of amendments.

5. The amendments made by these Regulations apply in respect of the year commencing on the first day of January, 1967, and all subsequent years.

THE SCHEDULE  Regulation 4.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra