States Grants (Technical Training) Act 1971

States Grants (Technical Training)

No. 37 of 1971

An Act to grant Financial Assistance to the States for Buildings and Equipment for use in Technical Training.

[Assented to 18 May 1971]

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 (Technical Training) Act 1971.

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—

“building”, in relation to an institution in relation to which this Act applies, includes a building used, or a proposed building that will be used, for the purpose of providing residential accommodation for persons receiving or undergoing technical training at that institution;

“institution in relation to which this Act applies” means a place of education or training the whole or a part of which is carried on exclusively or principally for the purpose of providing technical training, being a place of education or training that—

(a) is conducted by a State; or

(b) is declared by the regulations to be an institution in relation to which this Act applies;

“technical training” means the training of persons for engagement in trades, technical occupations or agricultural or other rural occupations;

“the period to which this Act applies” means the period commencing on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-four.

Grants for technical training.

4.—(1.) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State, under this Act, during the period to which this Act applies, by way of financial assistance, of such amounts as, subject to the next succeeding sub-section, he determines.

(2.) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under the last preceding sub-section that—

(a) exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in the Schedule to this Act opposite to the name of the State;

(b) in the case of payments authorized on or before the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two—exceed, in the aggregate, one-third of that amount; or

(c) in the case of payments authorized on or before the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-three—exceed, in the aggregate, two-thirds of that amount.

(3.) Payment of an amount to a State under this Act is subject to the condition that the amount will be applied by the State, as approved by the Minister, for purposes in connexion with buildings and equipment for use in technical training in institutions in relation to which this Act applies.

Annual statement by Minister.

5. The Minister shall cause a statement to be laid before each House of the Parliament as soon as practicable after each thirtieth day of June included in the period to which this Act applies describing the arrangements in accordance with which payments under this Act have been authorized in the year that ended on that day and stating, in respect of each State—

(a) the total of the amounts paid to the State under this Act in that year; and

(b) the names of the institutions in relation to which this Act applies in respect of which the State has, during that year, applied amounts paid to the State under this Act.

Appropriation.

6. Payments under this Act shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.

Regulations.

7. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

THE SCHEDULE Section 4(2.).

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Limit of Grants