States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1965

States Grants (Advanced Education)

No. 102 of 1965

An Act relating to the grant of Financial Assistance to the States in connexion with Advanced Education.

[Assented to 13 December, 1965]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1965.

Commencement

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

Definitions.

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

“approved building project”, in relation to a college of advanced education, means a building project approved by the Minister under section 4 of this Act;

“building project” includes—

(a) the purchase of land, with or without buildings;

(b) the planning, erection, alteration or extension of a building;

(c) the development or preparation of land for building or other purposes;

(d) the installation of water, electricity or other services; and

(e) the provision of furniture or equipment for a building that has been erected, altered or extended for the purposes of a college of advanced education;

“college of advanced education” means a place of education the name of which is specified in the second column of the Schedule;

“State” means a State the name of which is specified in the first column of the Schedule;

“the prescribed period” means the period that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-five, and ends on the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six;

“the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Act.

Minister may approve building projects.

4. The Minister may, by instrument in writing under his hand, approve a building project in connexion with a college of advanced education for the purposes of this Act.

Grants for expenditure on building projects in connexion with colleges.

5.—(1.) Subject to this section, where a State furnishes to the Minister such information, certified to be correct by the Auditor-General of the State, as the Minister requires with respect to the amount expended by a State during the prescribed period for the purpose of carrying out an approved building project in connexion with a college of advanced education in the State, there is payable to the State, for the purposes of financial assistance, an amount equal to one-half of the amount the Minister is satisfied has been so expended by the State.

(2.) An amount payable under the last preceding sub-section shall not exceed so much of the amount the Minister is satisfied has been expended by the State in carrying out the approved building project as was not derived from advances under section 6 of this Act.

(3.) The respective sums payable to a State under the last preceding sub-section in relation to the several colleges in that State specified in the second column of the Schedule shall not exceed the amounts respectively specified in that column opposite to the names of those several colleges.

(4.) The Minister may, by instrument in writing under his hand, either during or after the prescribed period approve the taking into account for the purposes of this Act of expenditure by a State in relation to an approved building project incurred after the prescribed period and before a date specified in the instrument and in that event this section shall apply as if that expenditure had taken place during the prescribed period.

Advances.

6. The Treasurer may, at such times as he thinks fit, make advances of such amounts as he thinks fit to a State on account of an amount that may become payable under this Act to the State in relation to an approved building project and an amount so advanced is advanced on the conditions that—

(a) the State will, in respect of each payment of that advance and without undue delay, ensure that an amount equal to that payment is applied towards that approved building project;

(b) if the Minister informs the Treasurer of the State that he is satisfied that the State has failed to fulfil the conditions applicable to that advance, the State will pay an amount equal to the amount of that advance to the Commonwealth; and

(c) if the amount of that advance or of that advance together with other advances made under this section exceeds the amount properly payable, the State will pay the excess to the Commonwealth.

Appropriation.

7. Amounts payable to a State under this Act are payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.

THE SCHEDULE Sections 3, 4 and 5.

GRANTS FOR APPROVED BUILDING PROJECTS IN CONNEXION WITH COLLEGES OF ADVANCED EDUCATION