States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1981

Act No. 167 of 1981 as amended

[Note: This Act is repealed by Act No. 118 of 1999]

This compilation was prepared on 22 August 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

Part I—Preliminary

1 Short title [see Note 1]...........................

2 Commencement [see Note 1].......................

3 Interpretation.................................

4 Approval of, and directions relating to, building projects.......

5 New teaching developments........................

Part II—Universities

6 Interpretation.................................

7 Grants for expenditure on university purposes.............

8 Special research grants...........................

9 Research centres of excellence.......................

10 Grants for equipment............................

11 Recurrent grants in respect of student residences and affiliated colleges

12 Recurrent grants in respect of teaching hospitals............

13 Building projects...............................

13A Building projects in respect of the year 1983 etc.............

13B Building projects in respect of the year 1984..............

Part III—Advanced Education

14 Interpretation.................................

15 Grants for expenditure by colleges of advanced education for college purposes

16 Grants for expenditure in connection with the provision of courses of advanced education in technical and further education institutions

17 Carry‑forward of amounts specified under Schedule 8...

18 Variation of amounts specified in Schedule 8..............

19 Grants for equipment............................

20 Recurrent grants in respect of student residences and affiliated colleges

21 Building projects...............................

21A Building projects in respect of the year 1983 etc.............

21B Building projects in respect of the year 1984..............

22 Grants to Northern Territory for recurrent expenditure in respect of courses of advanced education etc.

23 Grants for courses of teacher education provided by non‑government teachers colleges

24 Grants for equipment for non‑government teachers colleges

25 Grants for minor building projects of non‑government teachers colleges

26 Further recurrent grants in relation to advanced education.......

Part IV—Technical and Further Education

27 Interpretation.................................

28 Grants for recurrent expenditure......................

29 Proposals for expenditure on staff training, data collection and processing and advanced English language courses for migrants

30 Variations of amounts in Schedule 12..................

31 Other recurrent grants............................

32 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with programs of adult education provided by non‑government bodies

33 Special grants for equipment........................

34 Building projects...............................

34A Building projects in respect of the year 1983..............

34B Building projects in respect of the year 1984..............

Part V—Non‑Government Business Colleges

35 Interpretation.................................

36 Approvals by Minister in respect of a year to which this Act applies

37 Grants for approved courses provided by non‑government business colleges

Part VI—Miscellaneous

38 Grants for community language courses.................

38A Recurrent grants may be increased to assist institutions in meeting certain superannuation expenses

38B Recurrent grants may be increased to assist institutions to meet expenses due to increased enrolments in 1984

40 Conditions attaching to building grants..................

41 Variation of building grants in Schedule 7, 7A or 7B.........

41A Benefits of, and opportunities created by, grants to be equally available to male students and female students

42 Additional conditions etc..........................

43 Time and manner of payments.......................

44 Delegation..................................

45 Advances...................................

46 Payments may be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or the Loan Fund

47 Authority to borrow.............................

48 Application of moneys borrowed.....................

49 Reimbursement of Consolidated Revenue Fund from Loan Fund..

50 Appropriation................................

52 Report by Minister..............................

Notes

An Act relating to the grant of financial assistance to the States and the Northern Territory with respect to tertiary education

Part I—Preliminary

1 Short title [see Note 1]

This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1981.

2 Commencement [see Note 1]

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

3 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

Academic Salaries Tribunal means the Tribunal established under that name by section 12B of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.

building project means:

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

(b) the designing, erection, alteration or extension of a building or other facilities;

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

capital expenditure means expenditure on a building project.

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; or

(b) an institution (other than an institution referred to in paragraph (a)) that is declared by the Minister, after he has obtained the view of the State in which the institution is situated and the advice of the Commission, by instrument under his hand, to be an institution that is to be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as a college of advanced education.

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

Commission means the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission referred to in section 6 of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977.

course of advanced education means a course of study:

(a) that is accredited or provisionally accredited by the authority for the State in which the relevant institution providing the course is situated that is responsible for the accreditation of advanced education courses; and

(b) that is undertaken for the purpose of obtaining an award of a relevant institution of a kind determined by the Minister in writing, on the recommendation of the Commission, to be an award to which this definition applies.

course of teacher education means a course of instruction that is accredited or provisionally accredited by the responsible authority for the State as a course of teacher education and that is provided by way of professional training for persons intending to become primary school teachers or secondary school teachers.

fees, in relation to a relevant institution, means tuition, examination or other fees payable to the relevant institution by a student enrolled at, or applying for enrolment at, the relevant institution in connection with a course of study or attendance at the relevant institution, and includes fees payable to the relevant institution in respect of the granting of a degree, diploma or other award (including a qualification relating to a trade, technical or other skilled occupation) 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;

(d) in a case where the relevant institution is a university, a college of advanced education or a non‑government teachers college—fees payable in connection with attendance for the purposes of studies that are not required or permitted to be undertaken for the purpose of obtaining a degree, diploma or other award of the relevant institution;

(e) in a case where the relevant institution is a technical and further education institution or an institution situated in the Northern Territory—fees payable in connection with, or in connection with attendance for the purposes of:

(i) studies that are not, or are not preparatory to, studies for the purposes of obtaining a qualification relating to a trade, technical or other skilled occupation; or

(ii) studies that are not required or permitted to be undertaken in relation to a course of advanced education provided by the relevant institution; or

(f) fees of a kind that are incidental to studies that may be undertaken at relevant institutions and that the Minister, by writing signed by him and notified to each State Tertiary Education Minister, declares to be fees of a kind to which this paragraph applies.

minor building project means a building project included in a class of building projects determined by the Minister to be a class of minor building projects.

non‑government teachers college means Avondale College or McAuley College.

prescribed staff, in relation to a university or college of advanced education, means:

(a) the members of the staff (whether employed on a full‑time or part‑time basis) of the university or college:

(i) who are employed by the university or college wholly or principally in teaching or research or in both teaching and research; or

(ii) to whom persons referred to in subparagraph (i) are responsible in relation to the teaching or research in which they are employed;

but does not include members of the staff employed wholly or principally in support of other members of the staff who are employed in teaching or research; and

(b) those senior officers of the university or college in respect of whom the Academic Salaries Tribunal has recommended rates of salaries in a report or reports of a kind referred to in paragraph 12D(2)(c) of the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973.

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 the law of a State or Territory;

(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.

recurrent expenditure means expenditure that is not capital expenditure.

relevant institution means:

(a) a university, a college of advanced education, a technical and further education institution, or a non‑government teachers college, that is situated in a State; or

(b) an institution at which courses of advanced education are provided, or at which technical and further education is provided, that is situated in the Northern Territory.

State Tertiary Education Minister means:

(a) in relation to a State—the Minister of the Crown for the State who is responsible, or principally responsible, for the administration of matters relating to tertiary education in that State; and

(b) in relation to the Northern Territory—the Minister of the Northern Territory who is responsible, or principally responsible, for the administration of matters relating to tertiary education in the Northern Territory.

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.

year to which this Act applies means any one of the years 1982, 1983 and 1984.

(2) Where a building project consists of, or includes, the erection, alteration or extension of a building, that project shall be deemed to include:

(a) unless paragraph (b) applies—the provision of furnishings for the building, or for the altered parts or the extensions of the building, as the case may be; or

(b) in a case where the building project is a building project of a technical and further education institution—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.

(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), where a building project by way of the erection, alteration or extension of a building is undertaken in connection with the establishment of a library at a technical and further education institution, the project shall be deemed to include the provision of books and other library materials required for the establishment of the library.

(4) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

(a) a reference to a report of the Academic Salaries Tribunal shall be read as a reference to a report of that Tribunal of a kind referred to in paragraph 12C(b), 12D(2)(c), 12DB(2)(b), 12DB(3)(a) or 12DC(1)(b) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973; and

(b) a reference to a State shall be read as including a reference to the Northern Territory.

(5) For the purposes of this Act, the Darwin Community College shall be deemed to be an institution conducted on behalf of the Government of the Northern Territory.

(6) 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.

(7) 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.

(8) Where, for university purposes within the meaning of Part II or for college purposes within the meaning of Part III, a university or a college of advanced education makes provision, not inconsistent with actuarial principles, in the accounts (including the journals and ledgers) of the university or the college for future or contingent liabilities in respect of superannuation payments or long service leave, the university or college shall be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have expended the amount of that provision for such university purposes or for such college purposes, as the case requires, in respect of the year in which that provision is made.

4 Approval 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) submitted to him by a university as an approved building project of the university in respect of a year to which this Act applies;

(b) may approve a building project (other than a minor building project) submitted to him by a State as an approved building project of a college of advanced education in respect of a year to which this Act applies;

(c) may approve a building project (other than a minor building project) submitted to him by a State as an approved building project of a technical and further education institution in respect of a year to which this Act applies; and

(d) may direct that information included in a specified class of information be furnished to the Commission in respect of building projects 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) in respect of a year to which this Act applies are building projects additional to the building projects specified in whichever of Schedules 7, 7A and 7B is applicable to that year.

(3) Where the Minister approves a building project under subsection (1) in respect of a year to which this Act applies, the Minister shall also approve:

(a) an amount as the maximum Commonwealth contribution towards the project, being so much of the amount estimated by him to be the cost of the project as he determines to be the appropriate Commonwealth contribution towards the project; and

(b) an amount of expenditure, not exceeding the estimated expenditure on the project in respect of that year, as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of that year.

(4) As soon as practicable after the Minister has approved a building project under subsection (1) in respect of a year to which this Act applies, the Minister shall cause a statement specifying the project, the maximum Commonwealth contribution towards the project and the approved expenditure on the project in respect of that year to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

(5) For the purposes of this Act, where information is furnished to the Commission in accordance with a direction under paragraph (1)(d) with respect to a building project of a university, or with respect to a building project of a college of advanced education, a non‑government teachers college or a technical and further education institution, in a State, being a building project specified in Schedule 7, Schedule 7A or Schedule 7B or a minor building project approved by the Commission in respect of a year to which this Act applies, the Commission shall, after consideration of that information, 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.

5 New teaching developments

(1) Where the Commission is satisfied that the provision, in a year to which this Act applies, at a relevant tertiary education institution, being a university, of any of the courses of study included in a class of courses of study would involve a new teaching development, the Commission may recommend to the Minister that he declare that class to be a class of courses of study to which this subsection applies.

(2) Where the Commission is satisfied that the provision, in a year to which this Act applies, at a relevant tertiary education institution other than a university, of any courses of advanced education would involve a new teaching development, the Commission may recommend to the Minister that he declare that class to be a class of courses of advanced education to which this subsection applies.

(3) The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Commission under subsection (1), by instrument in writing, declare a class of courses of study to be a class of courses of study to which subsection (1) applies.

(4) The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Commission under subsection (2), by instrument in writing, declare a class of courses of advanced education to be a class of courses of advanced education to which subsection (2) applies.

(5) The Commission may, in its discretion:

(a) determine that it does not approve, for the purpose of grants of financial assistance under this Act, the provision at a relevant tertiary education institution, being a university, of a relevant course of study that has been introduced, or that is proposed to be introduced, by that institution in a year to which this Act applies; or

(b) determine that it does not approve, for the purpose of grants of financial assistance under this Act, the provision at a relevant tertiary education institution other than a university of a relevant course of advanced education that has been introduced, or that is proposed to be introduced, at that institution in a year to which this Act applies;

and may revoke such a determination.

(6) As soon as practicable after the Commission makes or revokes a determination under subsection (5) relating to the provision of a relevant course of study or a relevant course of advanced education, as the case requires, at a relevant tertiary education institution, the Commission shall give notice of the making or revocation of the determination to the Minister and:

(a) in a case where the relevant tertiary education institution is a university situated in a State—to the university;

(b) in a case where the relevant tertiary education institution is a college of advanced education situated in a State—to the authority responsible, or principally responsible, for co‑ordination of advanced education in the State;

(c) in a case where the relevant tertiary education institution is a technical and further education institution situated in a State—to the instrumentality of the State responsible, or principally responsible, for technical and further education in the State; and

(d) in a case where the relevant tertiary education institution is an institution situated in the Northern Territory—to the instrumentality of the Northern Territory responsible, or principally responsible, for tertiary education in the Northern Territory.

(7) As soon as practicable after the end of each year to which this Act applies in which the Commission has made or revoked any determinations under subsection (5), the Minister shall cause a statement setting out the particulars of the determinations so made or revoked to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

(8) For the purposes of this Act, a determination under subsection (5) relating to the provision of a relevant course of study or a relevant course of advanced education, as the case requires, at a relevant tertiary education institution shall be deemed to come into force when notice of the making of the determination has been given:

(a) in the case of a notice given under subsection (6) to a university referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection—to the university referred to in that paragraph;

(b) in the case of a notice given under subsection (6) in relation to a college of advanced education referred to in paragraph (b) of that subsection—to the authority referred to in that paragraph;

(c) in the case of a notice given under subsection (6), in relation to a technical and further education institution referred to in paragraph (c) of that subsection—to the instrumentality referred to in that paragraph; and

(d) in the case of a notice given under subsection (6) in relation to an institution in the Northern Territory referred to in paragraph (d) of that subsection—to the instrumentality of the Northern Territory referred to in that paragraph.

(9) As soon as practicable after the Minister makes a declaration under subsection (3) or (4), he shall cause copies of the declaration to be furnished:

(a) in the case of a declaration under subsection (3)—to the State Tertiary Education Minister for each State, other than the Northern Territory; or

(b) in the case of a declaration under subsection (4)—to the State Tertiary Education Minister for each State.

(10) In this section, unless the contrary intention appears:

relevant course of advanced education means a course of advanced education included in a class of courses of advanced education that is declared, in a declaration in force under subsection (4), to be a class of courses of advanced education to which subsection (2) applies.

relevant course of study means a course of study included in a class of courses of study that is declared, in a declaration in force under subsection (3), to be a class of courses of study to which subsection (1) applies.

relevant tertiary education institution means:

(a) a university that is situated in a State;

(b) a college of advanced education that is situated in a State;

(c) a technical and further education institution that is situated in a State and at which courses of advanced education are provided; or

(d) an institution that is situated in the Northern Territory and at which courses of advanced education are provided.

Part II—Universities

6 Interpretation

(1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears, university purposes, in relation to a university, means:

(a) the general teaching and research purposes of the university in connection with courses of study provided by that university (including preparatory work in connection 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 $50,000 or an amount equal to 0.25% of the amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 1 in relation to that university, whichever is the lesser amount.

(2) In this Part, 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.

7 Grants 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 purposes of financial assistance in relation to the expenditure of the university for university purposes in respect of a year to which this Act applies, the amount specified in Schedule 1 in relation to that university and to that year.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to a university in respect of a year to which this Act applies 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 that year is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under subsection (1) in relation to the university in respect of that year;

(c) the State will ensure that each university situated in the State does not charge any student fees in respect of that year or a part of that year;

(d) the State will ensure that the university furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, 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 that year accompanied by a certificate by the auditor:

(i) certifying whether he is satisfied that the prescribed staff of the university comprising each category or class of persons in respect of which the Academic Salaries Tribunal had, in a report or reports of that Tribunal, recommended a rate of salary, or a scale of rates of salary, applicable to that year or a part of that year had been paid salary, in respect of that year or that part of that year, in accordance with those recommendations; and

(ii) if he is not so satisfied—certifying, in respect of each of those categories or classes of persons in respect of which he is not so satisfied, the rate or scale of rates at which salary was paid, in respect of that year or that part of that year, to the prescribed staff of the university comprising that category or class; 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 that year.

(3) Where a determination is made under subsection 5(5) relating to the provision of a course of study at a university, any expenditure in connection with preparation for the introduction of the course (not being expenditure incurred for the purpose of making a further submission to the Commission concerning the course), or, if the course has been introduced at the university, in connection with the provision of the course, that is incurred by the university while the determination is in force shall not be treated as expenditure by the university for university purposes in the application of subsections (2), (5) and (7) of this section to and in relation to financial assistance granted to the State in which the university is situated in relation to the university.

(4) Where a purpose is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 2 or in Column 2 of Schedule 2A in relation to a university specified in Column 1 of that Schedule and an amount is specified in that Schedule in relation to that purpose and to a year to which this Act applies, financial assistance in respect of that year is granted under subsection (1) to the State in which the university is situated on the further condition that the State will ensure that the amount expended by the university in respect of that year for university purposes included in the purpose so specified is not less than that amount.

(5) Where the Commission is satisfied that the amount paid to a State in relation to the recurrent expenditure of a university for university purposes in respect of a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, under section 6 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978, or under this section, as the case requires, exceeded the amount expended by the university for those purposes in respect of the base year, the Commission shall direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in Schedule 1 in relation to that university and to the year next following the base year shall be deemed to have been increased by the amount of the excess or by the prescribed amount applicable to that university in relation to the base year, whichever is the less, and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act:

(a) there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from 1 January in the year next following the base year) in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased;

(b) the amount so paid to the State in relation to recurrent expenditure of that university for university purposes in respect of that first‑mentioned year shall be deemed to have been reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the excess; and

(c) an amount equal to the amount of the excess shall be deemed to have been paid to the State under this Act for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to recurrent expenditure of the university for university purposes in respect of the year next following the base year.

(6) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (5) in relation to a university in respect of a year exceeds the prescribed amount in relation to that university in respect of that year, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the State in which the university is situated, being a request made not later than 30 September next following the expiration of that year, direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in Schedule 1 in relation to that university and to the next following year be further increased by an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds that prescribed amount, and, where the Minister gives that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from 1 January in that next following year), in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased.

(7) Where the Commission is satisfied that an amount expended by a university for university purposes in respect of a year, being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, exceeded the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State in which that university is situated in relation to recurrent expenditure by that university for those purposes in respect of that year, under section 6 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978, or under this section, as the case requires, the Commission shall direct that an amount equal to the amount of the excess or the prescribed amount applicable to the university in relation to that year, whichever is the less, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the university for university purposes in respect of the next following year and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, that amount shall be treated, for all purposes of this Act, as if it had been so expended.

(8) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (7) in relation to a university in respect of a year exceeds the prescribed amount applicable to the university in relation to that year the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the State in which the university is situated, being a request made not later than 30 September next following the expiration of that year, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds the prescribed amount, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the university for university purposes in respect of the next following year, and, upon the Minister’s giving that direction, that amount shall be treated, for all purposes of this Act, as if it had been so expended.

(9) As soon as practicable after the Commission has given a direction under subsection (5) or (7), the Commission shall furnish to the Minister particulars of the direction.

(10) In this section:

(a) a reference to university purposes in respect of a year, being the year 1981, 1982, 1983 or 1984, shall be read as a reference:

(i) in the case of the year 1981—to university purposes within the meaning of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978; and

(ii) in the case of the year 1982, 1983 or 1984—to university purposes within the meaning of this Act; and

(b) a reference to the prescribed amount applicable to a university in relation to a year, being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, shall be read as a reference:

(i) in the case of the year 1981—to 1% of the amount paid to the State in which that university is situated in relation to recurrent expenditure of that university for university purposes in respect of that year under section 6 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978; and

(ii) in the case of the year 1982 or 1983—to 1% of the amount paid to the State in which that university is situated in relation to recurrent expenditure of that university for university purposes in respect of that year under this section.

8 Special 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 a year to which this Act applies, the amount specified in Schedule 3 in relation to the university and to that year.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to a university in respect of a year to which this Act applies 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 that year, being amounts expended before 1 January next following the end of that year 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 next following the expiration of that year, 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 that year, being expenditure that occurred before 1 January next following the end of that year or that occurred on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date.

9 Research centres of excellence

(1) The Minister may approve a proposal for expenditure upon a program of research that is submitted to him in respect of a university as a proposal deserving financial assistance under this section in respect of a specified year to which this Act applies or specified years to which this Act applies subject to such conditions as the Minister determines and may vary or revoke any such approval.

(2) Where the Minister approves a proposal in respect of a particular year to which this Act applies, he shall determine an amount, not exceeding the estimated expenditure on the program in that year, as the amount of approved expenditure on the proposal in respect of that year.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), in relation to each approved proposal for expenditure, there is payable to the State in which is situated the university in respect of which the proposal was submitted, in respect of each year in respect of which the proposal is approved, for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the university in connection with the approved proposal in respect of that year, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the proposal in respect of that year.

(4) The total of the amounts determined by the Minister to be the amounts of approved expenditure in respect of all proposals approved by him under this section in respect of all of the years to which this Act applies shall not exceed $14,300,000.

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (3) in relation to approved proposals for expenditure by a university in respect of a year to which this Act applies 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 of the university in respect of that year, being amounts expended before 1 January next following the end of that year 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 approved proposals of the university in respect of that year; and

(c) the State will ensure that the university furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the expiration of that year, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure by the university in connection with approved proposals of the university in respect of that year, being expenditure that occurred before 1 January next following the end of that year or that occurred on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date.

10 Grants 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 a year to which this section applies 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 university in respect of a year to which this section applies on equipment, 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 connection with the approved proposal, an amount equal to the amount of the proposed expenditure.

(4) The sum of the amounts payable to a State under subsection (3) in respect of approved proposals for expenditure by a university in respect of a year to which this section applies shall not exceed the amount specified opposite to the name of that university in the column of Schedule 4 that relates to that year.

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to approved proposals of a university in respect of a year to which this section applies 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 of the university in respect of that year, being amounts expended before 1 January next following the end of that year 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 approved proposals of the university in respect of that year; and

(c) the State will ensure that the university furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure by the university in connection with approved proposals of the university in respect of that year, being expenditure that occurred before 1 January next following the end of that year or that occurred on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date.

(6) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to approved proposals of a university in respect of the year 1982, being a university specified in Column 1 of Schedule 5, on the further condition that the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the university in connection with approved proposals of the university in respect of that year in respect of equipment specified in Column 2 of Schedule 5 in relation to the university, being amounts expended before 1 January 1983 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.

(7) In this section, year to which this section applies means the year 1982, the year 1983 or the year 1984.

11 Recurrent grants in respect of student residences and affiliated colleges

(1) The Minister shall, for the purposes of this section, determine principles for calculating the amount of financial assistance that is payable to each State in respect of each student residence, or affiliated college, of a university situated in that State in respect of a year to which this Act applies, and may vary or revoke any determination so made.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), there is payable to each State, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to a student residence, or an affiliated college, of a university situated in that State, in respect of a year to which this Act applies, such amount as the Commission determines, in accordance with a determination made by the Minister under subsection (1) that is in force, to be the amount of financial assistance that is payable in respect of that student residence or affiliated college in respect of that year.

(3) The total of the amounts payable under subsection (2) in respect of all student residences, and affiliated colleges, of universities shall not exceed:

(a) in respect of the year 1982—$4,070,000;

(b) in respect of the year 1983—$4,450,000; or

(4) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to a student residence or affiliated college of a university in respect of a year to which this Act applies 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, and for meeting the administrative costs of, the student residence or affiliated college in respect of that year 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 in respect of that year; 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 next following the expiration of that year, 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, and for meeting the administrative costs, referred to in paragraph (b).

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

(6) 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.

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.

(7) The Commission shall, as soon as practicable after making a determination under subsection (2), cause a copy of that determination to be furnished to the Minister.

12 Recurrent grants in respect of teaching hospitals

(1) Where a university is specified in Column 1 of Schedule 6 and an amount is specified in that Schedule in relation to that university and to a year to which this Act applies, 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 that year, of the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of the university, the amount so specified.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of a university in respect of a year to which this Act applies 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 that year, 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 the university in respect of that year; and

(c) the State will ensure that the university furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, 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 that year, 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, means:

(a) 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, 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 connection with those parts of the hospital; and

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

13 Building projects

(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, there is payable to the State in which the university is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building project in respect of the year 1982, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

(2) 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 1982 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 an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1982.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), where the Commission approves, under subsection (2), a minor building project of a university in respect of the year 1982, 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 1982, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1982.

(4) The total of the amounts payable to a State under subsection (3), 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.

(5) The Commission may approve an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure in respect of the year 1982 on a design project of a university specified in Part III of Schedule 7.

(6) Subject to subsection (7), where the Commission approves an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure, in respect of the year 1982, on a design project of a university specified in Part III of Schedule 7, 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 1982, an amount equal to the amount of that approved expenditure.

(7) The total of the amounts payable to all the States under subsection (6) shall not exceed the amount set out in Part III of Schedule 7 as the total of the grants payable in respect of design projects specified in that Part.

(8) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given under subsection (2) or (5) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a project in respect of the year 1982, then, for the purposes of this Act, the amount as so varied shall be deemed:

(a) in the case of a project approved under subsection (2)—as from the date on which the project was so approved; or

(b) in the case of a design project specified in Part III of Schedule 7—as from the date on which an approval was given under subsection (5) in respect of the project;

to have been the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1982.

(9) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1982 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a university in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7B to the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the university is situated in relation to the project under that Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to universities, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part I of Schedule 7 to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to him not later than 30 September 1982, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of that excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1982 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1982.

13A Building projects in respect of the year 1983 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 7A, there is payable to the State in which the university is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building project in respect of the year 1983, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

(2) 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 1983 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 an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1983.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), where the Commission approves, under subsection (2), a minor building project of a university in respect of the year 1983, 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 1983, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1983.

(4) The total of the amounts payable to a State under subsection (3), in relation to a university specified in Column 1 of Part II of Schedule 7A, shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 2 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the university.

(5) The Commission may approve an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure in respect of the year 1983 on a design project of a university specified in Part III of Schedule 7A.

(6) Subject to subsection (7), where the Commission approves an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure, in respect of the year 1983, on a design project of a university specified in Part III of Schedule 7A, 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 1983, an amount equal to the amount of that approved expenditure.

(7) The total of the amounts payable to all the States under subsection (6) shall not exceed the amount set out in Part III of Schedule 7A, as the total of the grants payable in respect of design projects specified in that Part.

(8) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given under subsection (2) or (5) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a project in respect of the year 1983, then, for the purposes of this Act, the amount as so varied shall be deemed:

(a) in the case of a project approved under subsection (2)—as from the date on which the project was so approved; or

(b) in the case of a design project specified in Part III of Schedule 7A—as from the date on which an approval was given under subsection (5) in respect of the project;

to have been the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1983.

(9) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1983 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a university in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7 exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the university is situated, before 1 January 1983, in relation to the project under this Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to universities, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part I of Schedule 7A to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to him not later than 30 September 1983, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of that excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1983 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1983.

13B Building projects in respect of the year 1984

(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 7B, there is payable to the State in which the university is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building project in respect of the year 1984, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

(2) 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 1984 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 an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1984.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), where the Commission approves, under subsection (2), a minor building project of a university in respect of the year 1984, 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 1984, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1984.

(4) The total of the amounts payable to a State under subsection (3), in relation to a university specified in Column 1 of Part II of Schedule 7B, shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 2 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the university.

(5) The Commission may approve an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure in respect of the year 1984 on a design project of a university specified in Part III of Schedule 7B.

(6) Subject to subsection (7), where the Commission approves an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, on a design project of a university specified in Part III of Schedule 7B, 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 1984, an amount equal to the amount of that approved expenditure.

(7) The total of the amounts payable to all the States under subsection (6) shall not exceed the amount set out in Part III of Schedule 7B as the total of the grants payable in respect of design projects specified in that Part.

(8) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given under subsection (2) or (5) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a project in respect of the year 1984, then, for the purposes of this Act, the amount as so varied shall be deemed:

(a) in the case of a project approved under subsection (2)—as from the date on which the project was so approved; or

(b) in the case of a design project specified in Part III of Schedule 7B—as from the date on which an approval was given under subsection (5) in respect of the project;

to have been the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1984.

(9) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1984 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a university in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7A exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the university is situated, before 1 January 1984, in relation to the project under this Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to universities, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part I of Schedule 7B to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to him not later than 30 September 1984, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of the excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1984 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1984.

Part III—Advanced Education

14 Interpretation

(1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

approved authority, in relation to a non‑government teachers college, means such person or body as the Minister declares, in writing, to be an approved authority of that college for the purposes of this section.

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

(a) the general teaching purposes of the college in connection with courses of advanced education provided at the college (including preparatory work in connection with such courses);

(b) the provision by the college of courses of continuing education in accordance with a program of continuing education of the college that is approved by the responsible authority for the State in which the college is situated; and

(c) building projects of the college, not being building projects involving the purchase of land, in relation to each of which the total expenditure does not exceed $50,000 or an amount equal to 0.25% of the amount specified in the column of Schedule 8 that relates to the year in which work on the project was commenced, whichever is the lesser amount.

(2) In sections 23, 24 and 25, references to a certificate by a qualified accountant shall be read as references to a certificate signed by:

(a) a person who is registered as a company auditor or a public accountant under a law of a State or Territory;

(b) a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia or of the Australian Society of Accountants; or

15 Grants for expenditure by colleges of advanced education for college purposes

(1) In relation to each 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 purposes of financial assistance in relation to the expenditure of the college for college purposes in respect of a year to which this Act applies, the amount specified in Part I of Schedule 8 in relation to that college and to that year.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to a college of advanced education in respect of a year to which this Act applies on the conditions that:

(a) the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the college without undue delay;

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

(c) the State will ensure that each college of advanced education situated in the State does not charge any student fees in respect of that year or a part of that year;

(d) the State will ensure that the college furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, 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 that year accompanied by a certificate by the auditor:

(i) certifying whether he is satisfied that the prescribed staff of the college comprising each category or class of persons in respect of which the Academic Salaries Tribunal had, in a report or reports of that Tribunal, recommended a rate of salary, or a scale of rates of salary, applicable to that year or a part of that year had been paid salary, in respect of that year or that part of that year, in accordance with those recommendations; and

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

(3) Where a college of advanced education is specified in Column 1 of Part IV of Schedule 8 and an amount is specified opposite to the name of that college in Column 2 or 3 of that Part, financial assistance in respect of the year to which that Column relates is granted under subsection (1) to the State in which the college of advanced education is situated on the further condition that the State will ensure that the amount expended by the college in respect of that year for college purposes, being purposes that will enable the college to provide, or develop and provide, courses in applied science, technology or business studies, is not less than the amount specified opposite to the name of that college in that Column.

(4) Where a determination is made under subsection 5(5) relating to the provision of a course of advanced education at a college, any expenditure in connection with preparation for the introduction of the course (not being expenditure incurred for the purpose of making a further submission to the Commission concerning the course), or, if the course has been introduced at the college, in connection with the provision of the course, that is incurred by the college while the determination is in force, shall not be treated as expenditure by the college for college purposes in the application of subsection (2) of this section and section 17 to and in relation to financial assistance granted to a State in relation to the college.

(5) In determining, for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section and section 17, the amount expended by a college of advanced education for college purposes in respect of a year, where the total expenditure incurred by the college in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, of courses of continuing education provided in accordance with a program of continuing education approved by the responsible authority for the State in which the college is situated exceeds the greater of $50,000 and an amount equal to 1% of the amount specified in Part I of Schedule 8 in relation to the college, an amount equal to the greater of those amounts shall be treated as the total amount of expenditure so incurred.

16 Grants for expenditure in connection with the provision of courses of advanced education in technical and further education institutions

(1) There is payable to a State specified in Part II of Schedule 8, for the purposes of financial assistance in relation to recurrent expenditure incurred by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in connection with the provision, in respect of a year to which this Act applies, at technical and further education institutions situated in that State, of courses of advanced education, the amount specified in that Part in relation to that State and that year.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to the provision, at technical and further education institutions situated in that State, of courses of advanced education in respect of a year to which this Act applies 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 connection with the provision of courses of advanced education at those institutions is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under subsection (1) in respect of that year;

(b) the State will ensure that each technical and further education institution situated in the State at which courses of advanced education are provided does not charge any student fees in respect of that year or a part of that year;

(c) the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a statement by an approved auditor within the meaning of Part IV, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the total expenditure, in respect of that year, by the State and by instrumentalities of the State, by way of recurrent expenditure, in connection with the provision, at those institutions, of courses of advanced education; 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 at those institutions of courses of advanced education.

(3) Financial assistance is granted to the State of New South Wales under subsection (1) on the further condition that the State will ensure that of the total of the amounts expended by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in connection with the provision, at technical and further education institutions situated in the State, of courses of advanced education in respect of the year 1982, not less than $30,000 is expended upon the provision, or the development and provision, of courses of advanced education in applied science, technology or business studies at one or more of those institutions in respect of that year.

(4) Where a determination is made under subsection 5(5) relating to the provision of a course of advanced education at a technical and further education institution situated in a State, any expenditure in connection with preparation for the introduction of the course (not being expenditure incurred for the purpose of making a further submission to the Commission concerning the course) or, if the course has been introduced at the institution, in connection with the provision of the course, that is incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of the State while the determination is in force shall not be treated as expenditure by the State or by an instrumentality of the State by way of recurrent expenditure in connection with the provision of courses of advanced education at technical and further education institutions in the application of subsection (2) of this section and section 17 to and in relation to financial assistance granted to that State under subsection (1) of this section.

17 Carry‑forward of amounts specified under Schedule 8

(1) Where the Commission is satisfied that the amount paid to a State in relation to recurrent expenditure of a college of advanced education for college purposes in respect of a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, under subsection 14 (1) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978, or under section 15 of this Act, as the case requires, exceeded the amount expended by the college for those purposes in respect of the base year, the Commission shall direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in Part I of Schedule 8 in relation to that college and the year next following the base year shall be deemed to have been increased by the amount of the excess or by the prescribed amount applicable to that college in relation to the base year, whichever is the less, and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act:

(a) there shall be deemed to have been specified in Schedule 8 (as from 1 January in the year next following the base year), in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased;

(b) the amount so paid to the State in relation to the recurrent expenditure of that college for college purposes in respect of the base year shall be deemed to have been reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the excess; and

(2) Where the Commission is satisfied that the amount paid to a State, in relation to recurrent expenditure of the State and of instrumentalities of the State in connection with the provision, in respect of a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, under subsection 14(5) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978, or under section 16 of this Act, as the case requires, at technical and further education institutions of courses of advanced education, exceeded the amount expended by the State and by those instrumentalities in connection with the provision, in respect of the base year, at technical and further education institutions situated in the State, of courses of advanced education, the Commission shall direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in Part II of Schedule 8 in relation to that State and the year next following the base year, shall be deemed to have been increased by the amount of the excess or by the prescribed amount applicable to the State in relation to the base year, whichever is the less, and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act:

(a) there shall be deemed to have been specified in Schedule 8 (as from 1 January in the year next following the base year) in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased;

(b) the amount so paid to the State in relation to the recurrent expenditure of the State and those instrumentalities in connection with the provision, in respect of the base year at technical and further education institutions situated in the State, of courses of advanced education shall be deemed to have been reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the excess; and

(c) an amount equal to the amount of the excess shall be deemed to have been paid to the State under this Act for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the recurrent expenditure of the State and of those instrumentalities in connection with the provision, in respect of the year next following the base year, at technical and further education institutions situated in the State, of courses of advanced education.

(3) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (1) in relation to a college of advanced education in respect of a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, exceeds the prescribed amount in relation to that college in respect of that year, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the State in which the college is situated, being a request made not later than 30 September in the year next following the base year, direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in Part I of Schedule 8 in relation to that college and the year next following the base year shall be further increased by an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds the prescribed amount in relation to that college in respect of the base year, and, where the Minister gives that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from 1 January in the year next following the base year), in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased.

(4) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (2) in relation to a State in respect of a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, exceeds the prescribed amount in relation to that State in respect of that year, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the State, being a request made not later than 30 September in the year next following the base year, direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in Part II of Schedule 8 in relation to that State and the year next following the base year shall be further increased by an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds the prescribed amount in relation to that State in respect of the base year, and, where the Minister gives that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from 1 January in the year next following the base year), in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased.

(5) Where the aggregate of the amounts paid to a State in relation to the recurrent expenditure of all the colleges of advanced education in the State for college purposes in respect of a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, under subsection 14(1) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 or section 15 of this Act, whichever is appropriate, and the amounts (if any) paid to the State under subsection 14(5) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 or section 16 of this Act, whichever is appropriate, in respect of that year and the amount (if any) specified in relation to that State in Part III of Schedule 8 to the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 or in Part III of Schedule 8 to this Act, whichever is appropriate, upon the expiration of that year, exceeded the sum of:

(a) the respective amounts expended by each of the colleges in the State in respect of recurrent expenditure for college purposes in respect of that year;

(b) the amount (if any) expended by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, at technical and further education institutions situated in the State, of courses of advanced education;

(c) the amounts (if any) by which the amounts specified in Part I of Schedule 8 in relation to colleges situated in the State and to the year next following the base year have been increased under this section; and

(d) the amount (if any) by which the amount specified in Part II of Schedule 8 in relation to the State and to the year next following the base year has been increased under this section;

the Minister may, at the request of the State, being a request made not later than 30 September of the year next following the base year, direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in Part III of that Schedule in relation to the State and the year next following the base year shall be increased by an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount of the excess, and, where the Minister gives that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from 1 January of the year next following the base year), in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased.

(6) The Minister shall not, after he has given a direction under subsection (5) in relation to a State and to a year, give a direction or a further direction in relation to the State and to that year under subsection (3) or (4).

(7) Where the Commission is satisfied that the amount expended by a college of advanced education for college purposes in respect of a year, being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, exceeded the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State in which that college is situated in relation to recurrent expenditure by that college for such purposes in respect of that year, under subsection 14(1) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978, or under section 15 of this Act, as the case requires, the Commission shall direct that an amount equal to the amount of the excess or the prescribed amount applicable to the college in relation to that year, whichever is the less, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the college for college purposes in respect of the next following year, and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, that amount shall be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as if it had been so expended.

(8) Where the Commission is satisfied that the amount expended by a State and by instrumentalities of a State in connection with the provision, in respect of a year, being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, at technical and further education institutions situated in that State, of courses of advanced education exceeded the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State in relation to recurrent expenditure incurred in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, at technical and further education institutions situated in that States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978, or under section 16 of this Act, as the case requires, the Commission shall direct that an amount equal to the amount of the excess or the prescribed amount applicable to the State in relation to that year, whichever is the less, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the State, in connection with the provision, in respect of the next following year, at technical and further education institutions situated in that State, of courses of advanced education, and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, that amount shall be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as if it had been so expended.

(9) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (7) in relation to a college of advanced education in respect of a year exceeds the prescribed amount in relation to that college in respect of that year, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the State in which the college is situated, being a request made not later than 30 September next following the expiration of that year, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds the prescribed amount, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the college for college purposes in respect of the next following year, and, upon the Minister’s giving that direction, that amount shall be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as if it had been so expended.

(10) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (8) in relation to a State in respect of a year exceeds the prescribed amount in relation to that State in respect of that year, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the State, being a request made not later than 30 September next following the expiration of that year, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds the prescribed amount, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the State in connection with the provision, in respect of the next following year, at technical and further education institutions situated in the State, of courses of advanced education, and, upon the Minister’s giving that direction, that amount shall be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as if it had been so expended.

(11) As soon as practicable after the Commission has given a direction under subsection (1), (2), (7) or (8), the Commission shall furnish to the Minister particulars of the direction.

(12) In this section:

(a) a reference to college purposes in respect of a year, being the year 1981, 1982, 1983 or 1984, shall be read as a reference:

(i) in the case of the year 1981—to college purposes within the meaning of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978; and

(ii) in the case of the year 1982, 1983 or 1984—to college purposes within the meaning of this Act;

(b) a reference to the prescribed amount applicable to a college of advanced education in relation to a year, being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, shall be read as a reference:

(i) in the case of the year 1981—to the greater of $50,000 and an amount equal to 1% of the amount paid to the State in which the college is situated in relation to recurrent expenditure of that college for college purposes in respect of that year under subsection 14(1) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978; and

(ii) in the case of the year 1982 or 1983—to the greater of $50,000 and an amount equal to 1% of the amount paid to the State in which the college is situated in relation to recurrent expenditure of that college for college purposes in respect of that year under section 15; and

(c) a reference to the prescribed amount applicable to a State, in relation to expenditure in connection with the provision, in respect of a year, being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, at technical and further education institutions situated in the State of courses of advanced education, shall be read as a reference:

(i) in the case of the year 1981—to the greater of $50,000 and an amount equal to 1% of the amount paid to the State in relation to recurrent expenditure of the State and instrumentalities of the State in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, at technical and further education institutions in that State of courses of advanced education, under subsection 14(5) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978; and

(ii) in the case of the year 1982 or 1983—to the greater of $50,000 and an amount equal to 1% of the amount paid to the State in relation to recurrent expenditure of the State and instrumentalities of the State in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, at technical and further education institutions situated in that State of courses of advanced education under section 16.

18 Variation of amounts specified in Schedule 8

(1) At any time, and from time to time, during a year to which this Act applies, but subject to this section, the Minister may direct that this Act has effect as if all or any of the amounts specified in Part I, Parts I and III, or Parts II and III, of Schedule 8 in relation to that year 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 section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencement date in respect of that year), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

(2) At any time, and from time to time, during a year to which this Act applies, but subject to this section, the Commission may direct that this Act has effect as if all or any of the amounts specified in Part I, Parts I and III, or Parts II and III, of Schedule 8 in respect of that year 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 section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencement date in respect of that year), 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 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 Part II or Part III of Schedule 8 opposite to the name of a State, except at the request of the State.

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

(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 $300,000, 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 the name of that State.

(5) A direction shall not be given under subsection (1) or (2) during a year to which this Act applies:

(a) in a case where the direction relates only to amounts specified in Part I of Schedule 8 in respect of that year—that would have the effect of varying the amount in that Part in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified in that Part in relation to that year is greater or less than the aggregate of those amounts before the giving of that direction; and

(b) in a case where the direction relates to amounts specified in Parts I and III, or Parts II and III, of Schedule 8 in respect of that year—that would have the effect of varying the amounts in those Parts in such a way that after the variation the aggregate of the amounts specified in those Parts in relation to that year is greater or less than the aggregate of those amounts before the giving of that direction.

(6) 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.

(7) As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under subsection (1), or has been furnished under subsection (6) 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.

(8) In this section, a reference to the commencement date in respect of a year shall be read as a reference:

(a) in the case of the year 1982—to the date on which this Act receives the Royal Assent;

(b) in the case of the year 1983—to 1 January 1983; and

19 Grants for equipment

(1) A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Commission proposals for expenditure by a college of advanced education situated in that State 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 a year to which this section applies 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 a year to which this section applies 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 connection with the approved proposal, an amount equal to the amount of the proposed expenditure.

(4) The sum of the amounts payable to a State under subsection (3) in respect of approved proposals for expenditure by colleges in respect of a year to which this section applies shall not exceed the amount specified in relation to that State in the column of Schedule 9 that relates to that year.

(5) 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 a year to which this section applies 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 that year, being amounts expended before 1 January next following the end of that year 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 approved proposals of the college in respect of that year; and

(c) the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, 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 that year, being expenditure that occurred before 1 January next following the end of that year or that occurred on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date.

(6) In this section, year to which this section applies means the year 1982, the year 1983 or the year 1984.

20 Recurrent grants in respect of student residences and affiliated colleges

(1) The Minister shall, for the purposes of this section, determine principles for calculating the amount of financial assistance that is payable to a State in relation to the student residence or student residences of a college of advanced education, or of a non‑government teachers college, situated in the State or in relation to an affiliated college of a college of advanced education situated in the State, in respect of a year to which this Act applies, and may vary or revoke any determination so made.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), there is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the student residence or student residences of a college of advanced education, or of a non‑government teachers college, situated in the State or in relation to an affiliated college of a college of advanced education situated in that State, in respect of a year to which this Act applies, such amount as the Commission determines, in accordance with a determination made by the Minister under subsection (1) that is in force, to be an amount of financial assistance that is payable in relation to that student residence or those student residences, or in relation to that affiliated college, in respect of that year.

(3) The total of the amounts payable under subsection (2) in relation to all student residences of colleges of advanced education and non‑government teachers colleges and in relation to all affiliated colleges of colleges of advanced education shall not exceed:

(a) in respect of the year 1982—$1,250,000;

(b) in respect of the year 1983—$1,358,000; or

(4) Financial assistance is granted to a State in accordance with this section in relation to the student residence or student residences, or to an affiliated college, of a college of advanced education in respect of a year to which this Act applies on the conditions that:

(a) in the case of financial assistance in relation to the 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 provision of tutorial assistance to students of, and for meeting the administrative costs of, the student residence or student residences in respect of that year 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 in respect of that year; and

(iii) the State will ensure that the college of advanced education furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the expiration of that year, 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 provision of the tutorial assistance and for meeting the administrative costs referred to in subparagraph (ii); 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) the State will ensure that the amount expended by the college of advanced education or other body administering the affiliated college for the provision of tutorial assistance to students of, and for meeting the administrative costs of, that affiliated college in respect of that year 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 in respect of that year; 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 next following the expiration of that year, 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 the provision of the tutorial assistance and for meeting the administrative costs referred to in subparagraph (ii).

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State in accordance with this section in relation to the student residence or student residences of the non‑government teachers college situated in that State in respect of a year to which this Act applies on the conditions that:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the non‑government teachers college each amount of that financial assistance paid to it in relation to that student residence or those student residences;

(b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority of the non‑government teachers college under this section in relation to that student residence or those student residences in respect of that year unless the approved authority, before or at the time of accepting the first payment under this section in relation to that student residence or those student residences in respect of that year, has agreed or agrees with the State to be bound by the following conditions:

(i) the approved authority will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by, or on behalf of, the non‑government teachers college for the provision of tutorial assistance to students of, and for meeting the administrative costs of, the student residence or student residences in respect of that year is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the student residence or student residences of the college in respect of that year;

(ii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the expiration of that year, a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in subparagraph (i) has been fulfilled; and

(iii) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in subparagraph (i) or (ii), the approved authority will, if the Minister so determines, pay to the State such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to that student residence or those student residences in respect of that year) as the Minister determines should be repaid by the approved authority; and

(c) if an amount that the approved authority of the non‑government teachers college is liable to repay to a State under the condition referred to in subparagraph (b)(iii) is repaid by the approved authority to the State, or is recovered by the State from the approved authority, the State will pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to that amount.

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

(7) 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 purposes of this Act, as an affiliated college.

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

student residence, in relation to a college of advanced education or of a non‑government teachers college, 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.

(8) The Commission shall, as soon as practicable after making a determination under subsection (2), cause a copy of that determination to be furnished to the Minister.

21 Building projects

(1) In relation to each building project specified, in relation to a college of advanced education, in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building project in respect of the year 1982, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

(2) The Commission may approve a minor building project submitted to it by a State as an approved minor building project of a college of advanced education in respect of the year 1982, 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 an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1982.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), where the Commission approves a minor building project of a college of advanced education under subsection (2), there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect of the year 1982, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1982.

(4) The total of the amounts payable to a State under subsection (3) in relation to minor building projects of colleges of advanced education situated in the State shall not exceed the amount specified in Column 2 of Part V of Schedule 7 in relation to the State.

(5) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given by it under subsection (2) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a project in respect of the year 1982, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), the amount as so varied shall be deemed to have been, as from the date on which the project was approved under subsection (2), the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1982.

(6) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1982 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a college of advanced education in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7B to the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the college of advanced education is situated in relation to the project under that Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to colleges of advanced education, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part IV of Schedule 7 to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to him not later than 30 September 1982, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of the excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1982 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1982.

21A Building projects in respect of the year 1983 etc.

(1) In relation to each building project specified, in relation to a college of advanced education, in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7A, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building project in respect of the year 1983, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

(2) The Commission may approve a minor building project submitted to it by a State as an approved minor building project of a college of advanced education in respect of the year 1983, 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 an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1983.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), where the Commission approves a minor building project of a college of advanced education under subsection (2), there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect of the year 1983, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1983.

(5) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given by it under subsection (2) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a project in respect of the year 1983, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), the amount as so varied shall be deemed to have been, as from the date on which the project was approved under subsection (2), the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1983.

(6) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1983 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a college of advanced education in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7 exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the college of advanced education is situated, before 1 January 1983, 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, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part IV of Schedule 7A to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to him not later than 30 September 1983, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of the excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1983 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1983.

21B Building projects in respect of the year 1984

(1) In relation to each building project specified, in relation to a college of advanced education, in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7B, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building project in respect of the year 1984, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Part of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

(2) The Commission may approve a minor building project submitted to it by a State as an approved minor building project of a college of advanced education in respect of the year 1984, 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 an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1984.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), where the Commission approves a minor building project of a college of advanced education under subsection (2), there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect of the year 1984, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1984.

(5) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given by it under subsection (2) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a project in respect of the year 1984, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), the amount so varied shall be deemed to have been, as from the date on which the project was so approved under subsection (2), the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1984.

(6) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1984 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a college of advanced education in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7A exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the college of advanced education is situated, before 1 January 1984, 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, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part IV of Schedule 7B to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to him not later than 30 September 1984, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of the excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1984 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1984.

22 Grants to Northern Territory for recurrent expenditure in respect of courses of advanced education etc.

(1) There is payable to the Northern Territory, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to expenditure in connection with the provision, in respect of a year to which this Act applies, of courses of advanced education at institutions in the Northern Territory, the amount specified in Schedule 10 in relation to the Northern Territory and to that year.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to the Northern Territory under subsection (1) in respect of a year to which this Act applies on the conditions that:

(a) the Northern Territory will ensure that the total of the amounts expended by the Northern Territory and by instrumentalities of the Northern Territory, in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, of courses of advanced education at institutions in the Northern Territory is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the Northern Territory under subsection (1) in respect of that year;

(b) the Northern Territory will ensure that each institution situated in the Northern Territory at which courses of advanced education are provided does not charge any student fees in respect of that year or a part of that year;

(c) the Northern Territory will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a statement by the Auditor‑General of the Northern Territory, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the Northern Territory and of instrumentalities of the Northern Territory, in respect of that year, in connection with the provision of courses of advanced education at institutions in the Northern Territory; and

(d) the Northern Territory 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 in the Northern Territory of courses of advanced education and courses of continuing education referred to in paragraph (13)(b) at institutions in the Northern Territory during that year.

(3) Where a determination is made under subsection 5(5) relating to the provision of a course of advanced education at an institution in the Northern Territory, any expenditure in connection with preparation for the introduction of the course (not being expenditure incurred for the purpose of making a further submission to the Commission concerning the course) or, if the course has been introduced at the institution, in connection with the provision of the course, that is incurred by the Northern Territory or by an instrumentality of the Northern Territory while the determination is in force does not count as expenditure by the Northern Territory or by an instrumentality of the Northern Territory in connection with the provision of courses of advanced education at institutions in the Northern Territory in the application of subsections (2), (7) and (9) of this section to and in relation to financial assistance granted to the Northern Territory under subsection (1) of this section.

(4) Where, at any time during the year 1982, the Minister, after having regard to the advice of the Commission, considers it appropriate to provide additional funds to the Northern Territory for the purpose of enabling the Darwin Community College to provide external study facilities in respect of that year, he may direct that this Act shall have effect as if the amount specified in Part V of Schedule 8 were reduced by such amount as he specifies in the direction and the amount specified in Column 1 of Schedule 10 were increased by a corresponding amount, and, where he does so, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in Part V of Schedule 8 and in Column 1 of Schedule 10 (as from the commencing day), in substitution for the amounts specified in that Part and that Column, those amounts as so varied.

(5) If the Minister gives a direction under subsection (4), then, for the purposes of this section, a reference to the provision of courses of advanced education in respect of a year to which this Act applies shall be taken, so far as that reference relates to the Darwin Community College, to include a reference to the provision at that College in respect of that year of external study facilities.

(6) As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under subsection (4), the Minister shall cause a statement setting out particulars of the direction to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

(7) Where the Commission is satisfied that the amount paid to the Northern Territory in respect of a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, under section 15B of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978, or under this section, as the case requires, exceeded the amount expended by the Northern Territory and instrumentalities of the Northern Territory in connection with the provision, in respect of the base year, of courses of advanced education at institutions in the Northern Territory, the Commission shall direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in Schedule 10 in relation to the year next following the base year shall be deemed to have been increased by the amount of the excess or by the prescribed amount in relation to the base year, whichever is the less, and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act:

(a) there shall be deemed to have been specified in Schedule 10 (as from 1 January in the year next following the base year) in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased;

(b) the amount so paid to the Northern Territory in relation to expenditure in connection with the provision, in respect of the base year, of courses of advanced education shall be deemed to have been reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the excess; and

(c) an amount equal to the amount of the excess shall be deemed to have been paid to the Northern Territory under subsection (1) for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to expenditure in connection with the provision, in respect of the year next following the base year, of courses of advanced education at institutions in the Northern Territory.

(8) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (7) in respect of a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, exceeds the prescribed amount, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the Northern Territory, being a request made not later than 30 September in the year next following the base year, direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount), being the amount specified in Schedule 10 in relation to the year next following the base year shall be further increased by an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds the prescribed amount, in respect of the base year, and, where the Minister gives that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from 1 January in the year next following the base year), in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased.

(9) Where the Commission is satisfied that the amount expended by the Northern Territory in connection with the provision, in respect of a year, being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, of courses of advanced education at institutions situated in the Northern Territory exceeded the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the Northern Territory in respect of that year under section 15B of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978, or under this section, the Commission shall direct that an amount equal to the amount of the excess or the prescribed amount applicable to the Northern Territory in relation to that year, whichever is the less, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the Northern Territory, in connection with the provision, in respect of the next following year, of courses of advanced education at technical and further education institutions situated in the Northern Territory, and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended.

(10) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (9) in relation to the Northern Territory in respect of a year exceeds the prescribed amount in relation to the Northern Territory in respect of that year, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the Northern Territory, being a request made not later than 30 September next following the expiration of that year, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds the prescribed amount, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the Northern Territory in connection with the provision, in respect of the next following year, of courses of advanced education at technical and further education institutions situated in the Northern Territory, and, upon the Minister’s giving that direction, for all purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended.

(11) As soon as practicable after the Commission has given a direction under subsection (7) or (9), the Commission shall furnish to the Minister particulars of the direction.

(12) In this section, a reference to amounts of expenditure in connection with the provision, in respect of the year 1981, of courses of advanced education at institutions situated in the Northern Territory shall be read as a reference to:

(a) amounts of expenditure for the general teaching purposes of institutions in the Northern Territory in connection with courses of advanced education provided, in respect of that year, by the institutions (including preparatory work in connection with such courses);

(b) amounts of expenditure in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, at institutions in the Northern Territory at which courses of advanced education are provided, of courses of continuing education provided in accordance with programs of continuing education approved by the responsible authority for the Northern Territory or, if the total of those amounts exceeds 0.5% of the amount specified in Schedule 8A of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 in relation to that year, an amount, in respect of that expenditure, equal to 0.5% of the amount so specified; and

(c) amounts of expenditure in connection with building projects of institutions in the Northern Territory at which courses of advanced education are provided, being building projects (other than building projects involving the purchase of land) each of which is undertaken wholly for the purpose of providing such courses at those institutions and in relation to each of which the total expenditure does not exceed $30,000 or an amount equal to 0.25% of the amount specified in Schedule 8A of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 in relation to that year, whichever is the lesser amount.

(13) In this section, a reference to amounts of expenditure, in connection with the provision, in respect of the year 1982, 1983 or 1984, of courses of advanced education at institutions situated in the Northern Territory shall be read as a reference to:

(b) amounts of expenditure in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, at institutions in the Northern Territory at which courses of advanced education are provided, of courses of continuing education provided in accordance with programs of continuing education by the responsible authority for the Northern Territory or, if the total of those amounts exceeds the greater of an amount equal to 1% of the amount specified in Schedule 10 in relation to that year and the amount of $50,000, an amount, in respect of that expenditure, equal to the greater of those amounts; and

(c) amounts of expenditure in connection with building projects of institutions in the Northern Territory at which courses of advanced education are provided, being building projects (other than building projects involving the purchase of land) each of which is undertaken wholly for the purpose of providing such courses at those institutions in relation to each of which the total expenditure does not exceed $50,000 or an amount equal to 0.25% of the amount specified in Schedule 10 in relation to that year, whichever is the lesser amount.

(14) In this section, a reference to the prescribed amount, in relation to a year, being the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, shall be read as a reference:

(a) in the case of the year 1981—to the greater of $50,000 and an amount equal to 1% of the amount paid to the Northern Territory under subsection 15B(1) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 in respect of that year; and

(b) in the case of the year 1982 or 1983—to the greater of $50,000 and an amount equal to 1% of the amount paid to the Northern Territory, under subsection (1) in respect of that year.

(15) In this section, a reference to external study facilities shall be read as a reference to teaching facilities provided for the assistance of students undertaking courses of study provided by universities or colleges of advanced education that are situated in one or other of the States, being courses of study in which those students are enrolled as external students.

23 Grants for courses of teacher education provided by non‑government teachers colleges

(1) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of the non‑government teachers college situated in that State in providing, in a particular year to which this Act applies, courses of teacher education in respect of that year, of such payments as the Minister approves.

(2) The sum of the amounts payable under subsection (1) to a State in which a non‑government teachers college is situated in relation to that non‑government teachers college shall not exceed:

(a) in the case where the non‑government teachers college is Avondale College:

(i) in respect of the year 1982—$890,000;

(ii) in respect of the year 1983—$958,000; or

(iii) in respect of the year 1984—$1,036,000;

(b) in the case where the non‑government teachers college is McAuley College:

(i) in respect of the year 1982—$1,121,000;

(ii) in respect of the year 1983—$1,303,000; or

(iii) in respect of the year 1984—$1,528,000.

(3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to the non‑government teachers college situated in that State, in respect of a year to which this Act applies, on the conditions that:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the college an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the college;

(b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority of the college under this section unless the approved authority, before or at the time of accepting the first payment under this section, has agreed or agrees with the State to be bound by the following conditions:

(i) the approved authority of the college will ensure that the amount applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure incurred, in respect of that year, by the college in the provision in that year of courses of teacher education is not less than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the college in respect of that year;

(ii) the approved authority of the college will ensure that the college does not charge any student fees in respect of that year or a part of that year in respect of his undertaking a course of teacher education at the college;

(iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commission not later than 30 September in the year next following the end of that year:

(A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in subparagraph (i) has been fulfilled; and

(B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of the recurrent expenditure of the college, and such other financial and statistical information in respect of the college, as is required by the Commissioner to be so furnished; and

(iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the approved authority will, if the Minister so determines, pay to the State such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Minister determines should be repaid by the approved authority; and

(c) if an amount that the approved authority of the college is liable to repay to a State under the condition referred to in subparagraph (b)(iv) is repaid by the approved authority to the State, or is recovered by the State from the approved authority, the State will pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to that amount.

(4) Where the Commission is satisfied that the amount paid under this section to a State in respect of recurrent expenditure of the non‑government teachers college situated in that State in providing, in a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1982 or 1983, courses of teacher education in respect of that year exceeded the amount expended by the college or by the body administering the college in providing such courses in that year, the Commission shall direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in subsection (2) in relation to the college and to the year next following the base year, shall be deemed to have been increased by the amount of the excess or by $50,000, whichever is the less, and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act:

(a) there shall be deemed to have been specified in subsection (2) (as from 1 January in the year next following the base year), in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased;

(b) the amount paid to the State in relation to recurrent expenditure of that college in providing courses of teacher education in that State, in the base year, shall be deemed to have been reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the excess; and

(c) an amount equal to the amount of the excess shall be deemed to have been paid to the State under subsection (1) for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to recurrent expenditure of the college in providing, in the year next following the base year, courses of teacher education in respect of that year.

(5) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (4) in relation to a non‑government teachers college in respect of a year (in this subsection referred to as the base year), being the year 1982 or 1983, exceeds $50,000, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the State in which the college is situated, being a request made not later than 30 September in the year next following the base year, direct that the amount (in this subsection referred to as the relevant amount) specified in subsection (2) in relation to the college and to the year next following the base year shall be further increased by an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds $50,000, and, where the Minister gives that direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, there shall be deemed to have been specified in subsection (2) (from 1 January in the year next following the base year), in substitution for the relevant amount, the relevant amount as so increased.

(6) Where the Commission is satisfied that the amount expended by a non‑government teachers college or by the body administering a non‑government teachers college in providing, in the State in which the college is situated, in the year 1982 or 1983, courses of teacher education at the college in respect of that year exceeded the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid under this section to the State in respect of that year, the Commission shall direct that an amount equal to the amount of the excess or $50,000, whichever is the less, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the college or by the body administering the college in the provision, in the next following year, of courses of teacher education at the college in respect of that year, and, upon the Commission’s giving that direction, that amount shall be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as if it had been so expended.

(7) Where the amount of the excess referred to in subsection (6) in relation to a non‑government teachers college in respect of a year exceeds $50,000, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances that warrant his so doing, at the request of the State in which the college is situated, being a request made not later than 30 September next following the expiration of that year, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount not exceeding the amount by which the amount of the excess exceeds $50,000, shall be treated as if it had been expended by the college or the body administering the college in the provision, in the next following year, of courses of teacher education at the college in respect of that year, and, upon the Minister’s giving that direction, that amount shall be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as if it had been so expended.

(8) As soon as practicable after the Commission has given a direction under subsection (4) or (6), the Commission shall furnish to the Minister particulars of the direction.

24 Grants for equipment for non‑government teachers colleges

(1) A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Commission proposals for expenditure by a non‑government teachers college on equipment for use by the college.

(2) The Commission may approve a proposal submitted to it under subsection (1) in relation to a non‑government teachers college situated in that State as an approved proposal for expenditure by the college in respect of a year to which this section applies 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 non‑government teachers college situated in a State for expenditure, in respect of a year to which this section applies, 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 connection with the approved proposal, an amount equal to the amount of the proposed expenditure.

(4) The sum of the amounts payable to the States under subsection (3) in respect of approved proposals for expenditure by non‑government teachers colleges in respect of a year to which this Act applies shall not exceed:

(a) in the case of the year 1982—$36,000;

(b) in the case of the year 1983—$75,000; or

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (3) in relation to approved proposals for expenditure by a non‑government teachers college in respect of a year to which this section applies on the conditions that:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the college an amount equal to each amount paid to it under this section in relation to those approved proposals;

(b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority of the college under this section in respect of an approved proposal for expenditure by the college unless the approved authority, before or at the time of accepting the first payment under this section in respect of the proposal, has agreed or agrees with the State to be bound by the following conditions:

(i) the approved authority will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the college in connection with those approved proposals for expenditure by the college in respect of that year, being amounts expended before 1 January next following the end of that year 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 approved authority under this section in relation to those approved proposals;

(ii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in subparagraph (i) has been fulfilled; and

(iii) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in subparagraph (i) or (ii), the approved authority will, if the Minister so determines, pay to the State such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to those approved proposals) as the Minister determines should be repaid by the approved authority; and

(c) if an amount that the approved authority of the college is liable to repay to a State under the condition referred to in subparagraph (b)(iii) is repaid by the approved authority to the State, or is recovered by the State from the approved authority, the State will pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to that amount.

(6) In this section, year to which this section applies means the year 1982, the year 1983 or the year 1984.

25 Grants for minor building projects of non‑government teachers colleges

(1) The Commission may approve a minor building project submitted to it by a State as an approved minor building project of a non‑government teachers college situated in that State in respect of a year to which this section applies, 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 an amount as the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of that year.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), where the Commission approves a minor building project of a non‑government teachers college under subsection (1), there is payable to the State in which the college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect of a year to which this section applies, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of that year.

(3) The total of the amounts payable to the States under subsection (2) in relation to minor building projects of non‑government teachers colleges in respect of a year to which this section applies shall not exceed:

(a) in the case of the year 1982—$36,000;

(b) in the case of the year 1983—$44,000; or

(4) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given by it under subsection (1) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a project in respect of a year to which this section applies, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), the amount as so varied shall be deemed to have been, as from the date on which the project was approved under subsection (1), the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect of that year.

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (2) in relation to a minor building project of a non‑government teachers college in respect of a year to which this section applies on the conditions that:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the college an amount equal to each amount paid to it in relation to the project;

(b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority of the college under this section in relation to the project unless the approved authority, before or at the time of accepting the first payment under this section, has agreed or agrees with the State to be bound by the following conditions:

(i) the approved authority will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January next following the end of that year in connection with the project is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project in respect of that year;

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

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

(iv) the approved authority will ensure that, if the Commission so requests, there will be furnished to the Commission by the college, 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;

(v) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in subparagraph (i) has been fulfilled;

(vi) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in subparagraph (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v), the approved authority will, if the Minister so determines, pay to the State such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project) as the Minister determines should be repaid by the approved authority; and

(c) if the amount that the approved authority of the college is liable to repay under the condition referred to in subparagraph (b)(vi) is repaid by the approved authority to the State, or is recovered by the State from the approved authority, the State will pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to that amount.

(6) In this section, year to which this section applies means the year 1982, the year 1983 or the year 1984.

26 Further recurrent grants in relation to advanced education

(1) Subject to subsection (2), there is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the expenditure of a relevant college of advanced education that is situated in that State for college purposes in respect of the year 1982, such amount or amounts as the Minister, after having regard to the advice of the Commission, determines.

(2) The total of the amounts payable under subsection (1) in relation to relevant colleges of advanced education in respect of the year 1982 shall not exceed the amount specified in Part V of Schedule 8.

(3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in relation to a relevant college of advanced education in respect of the year 1982 on the same conditions as would, under subsection 15(2), have applied to that grant of financial assistance if the amounts paid under subsection (1) of this section had been paid under subsection 15(1).

(4) Where a determination is made under subsection 5(5) relating to the provision of a course of advanced education at a relevant college of advanced education, any expenditure in connection with preparation for the introduction of the course (not being expenditure incurred for the purpose of making a further submission to the Commission concerning the course) or, if the course has been introduced at the college, in connection with the provision of the course, that is incurred by the college while the determination is in force, shall not be treated as expenditure by the college for college purposes in the application of the conditions referred to in subsection (3) to and in relation to financial assistance granted to a State in relation to the college.

(5) In determining, for the purposes of the conditions referred to in subsection (3), the amount expended by a relevant college of advanced education for college purposes in respect of the year 1982, where the total expenditure incurred by the college in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, of courses of continuing education provided in accordance with a program of continuing education approved by the responsible authority for the State in which the college is situated exceeds the greater of $50,000 and an amount equal to 1% of the aggregate of the amounts paid to the State in relation to the college under subsection (1), an amount equal to the greater of those amounts shall be treated as the total amount of expenditure so incurred.

(6) In this section, relevant college of advanced education means a college of advanced education that was listed in Column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 immediately before the commencement of this Act but that was not, on 26 November 1981, listed in Column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to this Act or in Column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 17 to this Act.

Part IV—Technical and Further Education

27 Interpretation

(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) the Auditor‑General of that State; or

(b) a person, other than a person who is an officer of, or otherwise employed in, the instrumentality of the State that is responsible, or principally responsible for the administration of technical and further education in that State, who is approved by the Commission as a person competent to furnish such a statement.

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;

but does not include education by way of a course of study that is, for the purposes of this Act, a course of advanced education.

year to which this Part applies means the year 1982, the year 1983 or the year 1984.

28 Grants 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 connection with the provision, in respect of a year to which this Part applies, of technical and further education at technical and further education institutions situated in the State, the amount specified in Schedule 11 in relation to that State and to that year.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in respect of a year to which this Part applies 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 connection with the provision, in respect of that year, 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) in respect of that year;

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

(c) the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a certificate by an approved auditor to the effect 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 that year.

29 Proposals for expenditure on staff training, data collection and processing and advanced English language courses for migrants

(1) A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Commission a proposal for expenditure in connection with a program connected with the provision of technical and further education in the State that is proposed to be carried out in a year to which this Part applies, being a program by way of:

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

(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; or

(2) The Commission:

(a) 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 a year to which this Part applies;

(b) if it does so, shall:

(i) where the approval relates to a proposal for expenditure in connection with a program referred to in paragraph (1)(a), designate the approval as an approval of the proposal for the purposes of subsection (5) or (6);

(ii) where the approval relates to a proposal for expenditure in connection with a program referred to in paragraph (1)(b), designate the approval as an approval of the proposal for the purposes of subsection (7) or (7A); or

(iii) where the approval relates to a proposal for expenditure in connection with a program referred to in paragraph (1)(c), designate the approval as an approval of the proposal for the purposes of subsection (7B) or (7C); and

(3) Subject to subsection (4), where the Commission approves a proposal in respect of a year to which this Part applies for the purposes of subsection (6), it shall approve an amount as the amount of approved expenditure of that proposal in respect of that year.

(4) The aggregate of the amounts approved by the Commission under subsection (3) as amounts of approved expenditure on proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (6) in respect of a year to which this Part applies shall not exceed the amount specified:

(a) in the case of the year 1982—in Part II of Schedule 12;

(b) in the case of the year 1983—in Part IV of Schedule 12; or

(4A) Subject to subsection (4B), where the Commission approves a proposal in respect of the year 1984 for the purposes of subsection (7A), it shall approve an amount as the amount of approved expenditure of that proposal in respect of that year.

(4B) The aggregate of the amounts approved by the Commission under subsection (4A) as amounts of approved expenditure on proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (7A) in respect of the year 1984 shall not exceed the amount specified in Part VII of Schedule 12.

(4C) Subject to subsection (4D), where the Commission approves a proposal in respect of the year 1984 for the purposes of subsection (7C), it shall approve an amount as the amount of approved expenditure of that proposal in respect of that year.

(4D) The aggregate of the amounts approved by the Commission under subsection (4C) as amounts of approved expenditure on proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (7C) in respect of the year 1984 shall not exceed the amount specified in Part VIII of Schedule 12.

(5) There is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of 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 a year to which this Part applies in connection with a program or programs referred to in paragraph (1)(a) (not being a proposal or proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (6)), the amount specified in relation to the State:

(a) in the case of the year 1982—in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 12;

(b) in the case of the year 1983—in Column 2 of Part III of Schedule 12; or

(6) There is payable to a State for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of the State in relation to a proposal in respect of a year to which this Part applies approved for the purposes of this subsection, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the proposal in respect of that year.

(7) 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 a year to which this Part applies in connection with a program or programs referred to in paragraph (1)(b) (not being a proposal or proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (7A)), the amount specified in relation to the State:

(a) in the case of the year 1982—in Column 3 of Part I of Schedule 12;

(b) in the case of the year 1983—in Column 3 of Part III of Schedule 12; or

(7A) There is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of the State in relation to a proposal in respect of the year 1984 approved for the purposes of this subsection, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the proposal in respect of that year.

(7B) There is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of 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 1984 in connection with a program or programs referred to in paragraph (1)(c) (not being a proposal or proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (7C)), the amount specified in relation to the State in Column 4 of Part V of Schedule 12.

(7C) There is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of the State in relation to a proposal in respect of the year 1984 approved for the purposes of this subsection, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure on the proposal in respect of that year.

(8) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (5) on the conditions that:

(a) the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended in respect of a year to which this Part applies by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of that year in connection 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 subsection (5) in respect of that year; and

(b) the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, 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 respect of that year in connection with programs referred to in paragraph (1)(a).

(9) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (6) on the conditions that:

(a) the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended in respect of a year to which this Part applies by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of that year approved for the purpose of subsection (6) is not less than the sum of amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that subsection in respect of that year; and

(10) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (7) on the conditions that:

(a) the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended in respect of a year to which this Part applies by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of that year in connection 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 subsection (7) in respect of that year; and

(11) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (7A) on the conditions that:

(a) the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended in respect of the year 1984 by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of that year approved for the purpose of subsection (7A) is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that subsection in respect of that year; and

(b) the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1985, 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 such approved proposals for expenditure.

(12) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (7B) on the conditions that:

(a) the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended in respect of the year 1984 by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of that year in connection with programs referred to in paragraph (1)(c) is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under subsection (7B) in respect of that year; and

(13) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (7C) on the conditions that:

(a) the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended in respect of the year 1984 by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of that year approved for the purpose of subsection (7C) is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that subsection in respect of that year; and

30 Variations of amounts in Schedule 12

(1) At any time, and from time to time, during a year to which this Part applies, 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 relation to the State in Columns 2 and 3 of whichever of Parts I, III and V of Schedule 12 relates to that year, 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 section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Part of that Schedule (as from the commencing day in respect of that year), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

(2) At any time, and from time to time, during a year to which this Part applies, but subject to this section, the Commission may, at the request of a State, direct that this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in relation to the State in Columns 2 and 3 of whichever of Parts I, III and V of Schedule 12 relates to that year, 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 section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Part of that Schedule (as from the commencing day in respect of that year), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

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

(a) that would have the effect of varying the amounts specified in relation to a State in Columns 2 and 3 of Part I, Part III or Part V of Schedule 12 if those amounts have previously been varied in accordance with a direction given under subsection (1); or

(b) that would have the effect of varying an amount specified in relation to a State in Column 2 or 3 of Part I, Part III or Part V of Schedule 12 to an amount that is greater or less, by more than $300,000, 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 of that Part.

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

(a) that would have the effect of varying amounts in Part I, Part III or Part V of Schedule 12 in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified in relation to the State in Columns 2 and 3 of that Part is greater or less than the amount specified in relation to that State in Column 4 of that Part of that Schedule; or

(b) that would result in a State becoming liable to repay an amount to the Commonwealth under this Act.

(5) In this section, a reference to the commencing day in respect of a year shall be read as a reference:

(a) in the case of the year 1982—to 26 November 1981;

(b) in the case of the year 1983—to 1 January 1983; and

31 Other recurrent grants

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

(a) curriculum research and development;

(b) the provision of services and facilities that are supplementary to courses of technical and further education;

(c) the taking of measures, either through the provision of programs of preparatory or remedial education or otherwise, to assist in making technical and further education more generally accessible to the public;

(d) the development of procedures that improve the provision, and the assessment, of courses of instruction available in technical and further education institutions; and

(e) the provision of administrative services for technical and further education institutions.

(2) The Commission:

(a) 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 a year to which this Part applies;

(b) shall, where it so approves a proposal, designate the approval as an approval of the proposal for the purposes of subsection (5) or (6); and

(3) Subject to subsection (4), where the Commission approves a proposal for the purposes of subsection (6) in respect of a year to which this Part applies, it shall approve an amount as the amount of approved expenditure on that proposal in respect of that year.

(4) The aggregate of the amounts approved by the Commission under subsection (3) as amounts of approved expenditure on proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (6) in respect of the year to which this Part applies shall not exceed the amount specified in whichever of Parts II, IV and VI of Schedule 13 relates to that year.

(5) 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 a year to which this Part applies (not being a proposal or proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (6)), the amount specified in relation to the State in Column 2 of whichever of Parts I, III and V of Schedule 13 relates to that year.

(6) There is payable to a State for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of the State in relation to a proposal approved for the purposes of this subsection in respect of a year to which this Part applies, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure of the proposal in respect of that year.

(7) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (5) on the conditions that:

(a) the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended in respect of a year to which this Part applies by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of that year (not being proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (6)) is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under subsection (5) in respect of that year; and

(b) the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, 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 respect of that year (not being proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (6)).

(8) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (6) on the conditions that:

(a) the State will ensure that the total of the amounts expended in respect of a year to which this Part applies by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of that year approved for the purposes of subsection (6) is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that subsection in respect of that year; and

32 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with programs of adult education provided by non‑government bodies

(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 specified in Schedule 14, for the purpose of financial assistance in connection with programs of adult education to be carried out in a year to which this Part applies in the State, the amount specified in Schedule 14 in relation to the State and to that year.

(4) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of a year to which this Part applies 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 connection with the provision, in that year, 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) in respect of that year; and

(c) the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, 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 connection with the provision, in that year, 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.

33 Special grants for equipment

(1) A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Commission proposals for expenditure on equipment for use in the provision of technical and further education in that State.

(2) The Commission may approve a proposal submitted to it by a State under subsection (1) as an approved proposal for expenditure upon equipment for use in the provision of technical and further education in that State in respect of a year to which this Part applies 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 on equipment for use in the provision of technical and further education in a State in respect of a year to which this Part applies, there is payable to that State, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in connection with the approved proposal, an amount equal to the amount of the proposed expenditure.

(4) The sum of the amounts payable to a State under subsection (3) in respect of approved proposals for expenditure on equipment for use in the provision of technical and further education in that State in respect of a year to which this Act applies shall not exceed the amount specified in relation to that State in the Column of Schedule 15 that relates to that year.

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (3) in relation to approved proposals for expenditure on equipment for use in the provision of technical and further education in that State in respect of a year to which this Part applies on the conditions that:

(a) the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in connection with those proposals in respect of that year, being amounts expended before 1 January next following the end of that year 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 those proposals in respect of that year; and

(b) the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure by the State and by instrumentalities of the State in connection with those proposals, being expenditure that occurred before 1 January next following the end of that year or that occurred on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date.

34 Building projects

(1) In relation to each building project specified, in relation to a technical and further education institution, in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7, there is payable to the State in which the institution is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect of the year 1982, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

(2) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1982 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a technical and further education institution in Column 2 of Part VII of Schedule 7B to the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the technical and further education institution is situated in relation to the project under that Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to technical and further education institutions, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part VI of Schedule 7 to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to him not later than 30 September 1982, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of that excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1982 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1982.

34A Building projects in respect of the year 1983

(1) In relation to each building project specified, in relation to a technical and further education institution, in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7A, there is payable to the State in which the institution is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect of the year 1983, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

(2) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1983 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a technical and further education institution in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7 exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the technical and further education institution is situated, before 1 January 1983, in relation to the project under this Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to technical and further education institutions, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part VI of Schedule 7A to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to him not later than 30 September 1983, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of that excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1983 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1983.

34B Building projects in respect of the year 1984

(1) In relation to each building project specified, in relation to a technical and further education institution, in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7B, there is payable to the State in which the institution is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect of the year 1984, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2.

(2) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1984 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a technical and further education institution in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7A exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the technical and further education institution is situated, before 1 January 1984, in relation to the project under this Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to technical and further education institutions, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part VI of Schedule 7B to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to the Minister not later than 30 September 1984, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of the excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1984 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1984.

Part V—Non‑Government Business Colleges

35 Interpretation

(1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

approved authority, in relation to a non‑government business college, means such person or body as the Minister declares, in writing, to be the approved authority of that college for the purposes of this Part.

business college means a college or similar institution, whether incorporated or unincorporated, providing courses of instruction in secretarial studies, but does not include a particular college or institution that provides such courses if the State Tertiary Education Minister for a State notifies the Commonwealth Education Minister that it is not recognized by the State Tertiary Education Minister as a business college and the Commonwealth Education Minister does not approve it as a business college for the purposes of this Part.

business college census date, in relation to a month of the year 1982, 1983 or 1984, means the date in that month declared by the Minister, by notice published in the Gazette, to be the business college census date for that month.

certificate by a qualified accountant means a certificate signed by:

(a) a person who is registered as a company auditor or a public accountant under a law of a State or Territory;

(b) a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia or of the Australian Society of Accountants; or

Commonwealth Education Minister means the Minister.

non‑government business college means a business college in a State that is not established by the Government of the State or conducted by or on behalf of the Government of the State, but does not include a business college conducted for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals.

(2) In this Part, a reference to a course of instruction in secretarial studies shall be read as a reference to a course of instruction in:

(a) shorthand;

(b) typing; or

together with other subjects suitable for preparing persons to perform secretarial duties.

36 Approvals by Minister in respect of a year to which this Act applies

(1) The Minister may:

(a) approve a course of instruction in secretarial studies that is being provided or is proposed to be provided by a non‑government business college in a year to which this Act applies as an approved course of that college for the purpose of this Part in respect of that year; and

(b) vary or revoke any approval so given.

(2) Without limiting the matters to which the Minister may have regard in deciding whether to approve a course of instruction under subsection (1), he shall have regard to:

(a) the content of the course and the standards to be attained in the course;

(b) the qualifications possessed by the teachers providing instruction in the course;

(d) the extent to which instruction will be given to students undertaking the course directly by the teachers providing instruction in the course; and

(e) the duration of the course.

37 Grants for approved courses provided by non‑government business colleges

(1) The Minister shall, after 31 December in each year to which this Act applies, authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of a non‑government business college in providing in that State, in that year, a course that is an approved course of that college in respect of that year, of such amount as the Minister determines.

(2) The Minister shall not authorize the payment to a State under subsection (1), in relation to the provision in that State by a non‑government business college, in a year to which this Act applies, of an approved course of that college in respect of that year, of an amount that exceeds the sum of the amounts (if any) respectively ascertained in respect of each of the months of that year by multiplying the amount specified in Column 2, 3 or 4 (whichever is appropriate) of Schedule 16 as the maximum capitation amount in respect of each month of that year by the total number of students receiving instruction in that course in that State on the business college census date for that month.

(3) In calculating the number of students receiving instruction in an approved course of a non‑government business college in respect of a year to which this Act applies on a business college census date in that year, a student receiving instruction in such a course on that date who was receiving instruction in such a course on each of 10 or more previous business college census dates (whether in that year or in that year and in a previous year or previous years and whether or not he was, on that first‑mentioned date and those previous dates, receiving instruction in the same approved course of secretarial studies) shall be disregarded.

(4) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of the recurrent expenditure of a non‑government business college in the provision, in that State, in a year to which this Act applies of an approved course of that college on the conditions that:

(b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the approved authority, before or at the time of accepting the first payment under this section, has agreed or agrees with the State to be bound by the following conditions:

(i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure incurred, in respect of that year, by the college in the provision in that year of approved courses of that college;

(ii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Minister not later than 30 September in the year next following the expiration of that year:

(A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in subparagraph (i) has been fulfilled; and

(iii) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in subparagraph (i) or (ii), the approved authority will, if the Minister so determines, repay to the State such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Minister determines should be repaid by the approved authority; and

(c) if an amount that the approved authority of the college is liable to repay to the State under the condition referred to in subparagraph (b)(iii) is repaid by the approved authority to the State, or is recovered by the State from the approved authority, the State will pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to that amount.

Part VI—Miscellaneous

38 Grants for community language courses

(1) The Commission may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Minister proposals for expenditure by a university or a college of advanced education on the provision, or the development and provision, of courses in community languages.

(2) The Minister may approve a proposal submitted to him under subsection (1) as an approved community language proposal of the university or college of advanced education to which the proposal relates in respect of a year to which this Act applies, or in respect of each year to which this Act applies, that is specified in the approval, and may revoke or vary any such approval.

(3) Where the Minister approves a proposal as an approved community language proposal of a university or of a college in respect of a particular year to which this Act applies, the Minister shall determine an amount, not exceeding the estimated expenditure on the proposal in that year, as the amount of approved expenditure on the proposal in respect of that year.

(4) The aggregate of the amounts of approved expenditure on approved community language proposals of universities and colleges of advanced education shall not exceed:

(a) in respect of the year 1982—$820,000;

(b) in respect of the year 1983—$894,000; or

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to approved community language proposals of a university or college of advanced education in respect of a year to which this Act applies on the conditions that:

(a) the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the university or college without undue delay;

(b) the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the university or college in connection with approved community language proposals of the university or college in respect of that year, being amounts expended before 1 January next following the end of that year 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 approved community language proposals of the university or college in respect of that year; and

(c) the State will ensure that the university or college furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure by the university or college in connection with approved community language proposals of the university in respect of that year, being expenditure that occurred before 1 January next following the end of that year or that occurred on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date.

(6) In this section, community language means a language, other than the English language, that is the first language of a significant part of the Australian community.

38A Recurrent grants may be increased to assist institutions in meeting certain superannuation expenses

(1) The Minister shall, for the purposes of this section, determine that expenditure by universities or colleges of advanced education of a specified kind, being expenditure in respect of, or in relation to, superannuation shall be relevant superannuation expenditure and may revoke or vary any determination so made.

(2) Where the Minister is satisfied that a university or a college of advanced education has incurred, or will incur, in respect of the year 1983 or the year 1984, relevant superannuation expenditure, the Minister may, during that year, determine an amount to be an amount of additional financial assistance that is payable in relation to that university or to that college of advanced education, in respect of that year, and, upon the making of that determination, this Act has effect as if:

(a) in a case where the amount is determined in relation to a university—the amount specified opposite to the name of that university in the Column of Schedule 1 that relates to that year had been increased (as from 1 January in that year) by the amount so determined; or

(b) in a case where the amount is determined in relation to a college of advanced education—the amount specified opposite to the name of that college in the Column of Part I of Schedule 8 that relates to that year had been increased (as from 1 January in that year) by the amount so determined.

(3) The aggregate of the amounts determined under subsection (2) in relation to universities and colleges of advanced education shall not exceed:

(a) in respect of the year 1983—$2,627,000; or

(b) in respect of the year 1984—$12,054,000.

38B Recurrent grants may be increased to assist institutions to meet expenses due to increased enrolments in 1984

(1) Where, after receiving advice from the Commission, the Minister is satisfied that a university or college of advanced education has incurred, or will incur, in respect of the year 1984, additional expenditure by reason of the increased numbers of students enrolling at the university or college of advanced education or by reason of special measures to encourage increased numbers of students, the Minister may determine an amount of additional financial assistance that is to be payable in relation to that university or that college of advanced education and, upon the making of that determination, this Act has effect as if:

(2) The aggregate of the amounts determined under subsection (1) in relation to universities and colleges of advanced education shall not exceed $10,834,000.

(3) As soon as practicable after the Minister has made a determination under subsection (1), the Minister shall cause a statement setting out particulars of the determination to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

40 Conditions attaching to building grants

(1) Financial assistance is granted to a State under section 13, 13A, 13B, 21, 21A, 21B, 34, 34A or 34B in relation to a building project of a tertiary education institution of the kind to which the section relates in respect of the year to which the section relates on the conditions that:

(a) in a case where the tertiary education institution is an institution other than a technical and further education institution—the State will pay each amount paid to it under that section to the tertiary education institution without undue delay;

(b) the State will ensure that the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January next following the end of that year 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 tertiary education institutions of that kind;

(c) the State will ensure that information in respect of the project is furnished to the Commission in accordance with any 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, there will 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 next following the end of that year, 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 next following the end of that year in connection with the approved project.

(2) In subsection (1), a reference to an approved building project of a tertiary education institution in respect of a particular year shall be read as a reference to:

(a) in a case where the tertiary education institution is a university and that year is 1982:

(i) a building project specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7 in relation to the university;

(ii) a project approved by the Commission under subsection 13(2) as an approved minor building project of the university in respect of that year; or

(iii) a design project of the university specified in Part III of Schedule 7;

(aa) in a case where the tertiary education institution is a university and that year is 1983:

(i) a building project specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7A in relation to the university;

(ii) a project approved by the Commission under subsection 13A(2) as an approved minor building project of the university in respect of that year; or

(iii) a design project of the university specified in Part III of Schedule 7A;

(ab) in a case where the tertiary education institution is a university and that year is 1984:

(i) a building project specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7B in relation to the university;

(ii) a project approved by the Commission under subsection 13B(2) as an approved minor building project of the university in respect of that year; or

(iii) a design project of the university specified in Part III of Schedule 7B;

(b) in a case where the tertiary education institution is a College of Advanced Education and that year is 1982:

(i) a building project specified in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7 in relation to the college; or

(ii) a project approved by the Commission under subsection 21(2) as an approved minor building project of the college in respect of that year;

(ba) in a case where the tertiary education institution is a college of advanced education and the year is 1983:

(i) a project specified in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7A in relation to that college; or

(ii) a project approved by the Commission under subsection 21A(2) as an approved minor building project of the college in respect of that year;

(bb) in a case where the tertiary education institution is a college of advanced education and the year is 1984:

(i) a project specified in Column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7B in relation to the college; or

(ii) a project approved by the Commission under subsection 21B(2) as an approved minor building project of the college in respect of that year;

(c) in a case where the tertiary education institution is a technical and further education institution and the year is 1982—a building project specified in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7 in relation to the technical and further education institution; or

(d) in a case where the tertiary education institution is a technical and further education institution and the year is 1983—a project specified in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7A in relation to the technical and further education institution;

(da) in a case where the tertiary education institution is a technical and further education institution and the year is 1984—a project specified in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7B in relation to the technical and further education institution.

41 Variation of building grants in Schedule 7, 7A or 7B

(1) Subject to this section, the Minister may, from time to time, after receiving advice from the Commission, direct that this Act shall have effect as if all or any of the amounts specified in Column 3 of Part I, IV or VI, or specified in Part II, III or V, of a relevant Schedule were varied in accordance with that direction, and, where the Minister gives a direction with respect to any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), 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) Subject to this section, the Commission may, from time to time, direct that this Act shall have effect as if all or any of the amounts specified in a relevant Schedule 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 section), 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) Where the Minister approves a building project under paragraph 4(1)(a), (b) or (c), as a building project in respect of the year 1982, the year 1983 or the year 1984 the Minister shall direct that this Act shall have effect as if:

(a) the relevant Schedule were varied by including, in Part I, Part IV or Part VI, as the case requires, particulars of the project and of the amount of the approved expenditure on that project in respect of that year; and

(b) all or any of the amounts specified in the relevant Schedule were varied in accordance with the direction, being variations consequential on the inclusion in that Schedule of the new project having regard to the provisions of subsection (7);

and then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section):

(c) the particulars referred to in paragraph (a) shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day); and

(d) there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for the amounts referred to in paragraph (b), the amounts as so varied.

(4) The Minister shall not give a direction under subsection (3) that would have the effect of increasing or decreasing the aggregate of the amounts that may be paid to a State under section 13, 13A, 13B, 21, 21A, 21B, 34, 34A or 34B unless the State has agreed to the variation or variations.

(5) The Commission shall not give a direction under subsection (2) involving a variation of an amount in Column 3 of Part I, IV or VI of a relevant Schedule that would have the effect of varying an amount specified in that column of that Part to an amount that is greater or less than:

(a) unless paragraph (b) applies—the amount so specified; or

(b) if a direction or directions has or have previously been given under this section—the amount that would have been specified if that direction or those directions had not been given;

by more than 10% of that amount or $300,000, whichever is the less.

(6) The Commission shall not give a direction under subsection (2) involving a variation of an amount specified in Column 4 of Part I, IV or VI or an amount specified in Part II, III or V of a relevant Schedule that would have the effect of increasing or decreasing the aggregate of the amounts that may be paid to a State under section 13, 13A, 13B, 21, 21A, 21B, 34, 34A or 34B.

(7) A direction shall not be given under subsection (2) or (3):

(a) that would result in the aggregate of the amounts payable to the States under sections 13, 21 and 34 being greater or less than $143,355,000;

(aa) that would result in the aggregate of the amounts payable to the States under sections 13A, 21A and 34A being greater or less than $157,300,000;

(ab) that would result in the aggregate of the amounts payable to the States under sections 13B, 21B and 34B being greater or less than $179,246,000; or

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

(8) A direction shall not be given under subsection (1), (2) or (3) in respect of an amount specified in a relevant Schedule in relation to a State or to an institution or other body situated in a State unless the Minister or the Commission has consulted the State in relation to the proposed variation.

(9) 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.

(10) As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under subsection (1) or (3) or has been furnished under subsection (9) 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.

(11) In this section:

commencing day means:

(a) in relation to a variation of Schedule 7—26 November 1981;

(b) in relation to a variation of Schedule 7A—the day on which the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Act 1982 received the Royal Assent; or

(c) in relation to a variation of Schedule 7B—the day on which the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Act 1983 received the Royal Assent.

relevant Schedule means Schedule 7, Schedule 7A or Schedule 7B.

41A Benefits of, and opportunities created by, grants to be equally available to male students and female students

(1) A payment under this Act to a State for the purposes of financial assistance is granted on the condition that the State will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the payment will, as far as practicable, be equally available to male students and female students.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to payments in respect of student residences or affiliated colleges.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a payment made for the purpose of providing a course of instruction at a non‑government business college all the students at which are of the same sex.

(4) Where:

(a) the benefits of, or the opportunities created by, a particular project or program or particular expenditure would not, but for this subsection, be equally available to male students and female students; and

(b) an object of the project, program or expenditure is to secure the adequate advancement of persons of one sex who require special assistance in order to ensure that persons of that sex have equal opportunities with persons of the other sex in connection with education or training;

the benefits of, or the opportunities created by, the project, program or expenditure shall not be taken, for the purposes of this Act, not to be equally available to male students and female students.

42 Additional conditions etc.

(1) In addition to the conditions specified in any other provision of this Act, financial assistance is granted to a State under this Act in respect of a year to which this Act applies on the conditions that:

(a) if the Minister informs the State that he is satisfied that the State has failed to fulfil a condition applicable to that financial assistance, the State will pay an amount equal to the amount of the financial assistance or to such part of the amount of the financial assistance as the Minister specifies, to the Commonwealth; and

(b) if the amount of the financial assistance paid to the State under a provision of this Act exceeds the amount of that financial assistance that is properly payable to the State under that provision, the State will pay an amount equal to the excess to the Commonwealth.

(2) Where the Minister is satisfied, on the basis of information contained in a relevant certificate furnished to the Commission in compliance with the conditions attaching to a grant of financial assistance in relation to a university or to a college of advanced education in respect of the year 1981, 1982 or 1983, that the prescribed staff of that university or of that college, as the case requires, comprising a category or class of persons in respect of which the Academic Salaries Tribunal had recommended a rate of salary or a scale of rates of salary applicable to that year or a part of that year, have been paid, in respect of, or of a part of, that year or that part of that year, salary at a rate, or in accordance with a scale of rates, in excess of the rate or scale of rates so recommended, he may direct that this Act shall have effect as if the amount specified in Schedule 1 in relation to that university and to the year next following that year or in Part I of Schedule 8 in relation to that college and to the year next following that year, as the case requires, were reduced by an amount specified by him, and, where he gives such a direction, there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule or that Part (as from the commencing day) in substitution for the amount specified in that Schedule or that Part, that amount as so reduced.

(3) The Minister shall not, upon being satisfied of the matter referred to in subsection (2) in relation to the payment of salary to prescribed staff of a university or college of advanced education in respect of a year or a part of a year, give a direction under that subsection by virtue of which an amount specified in relation to that university or college is reduced by an amount that exceeds the aggregate of the amounts by which the salary paid to that prescribed staff in respect of that year or that part of that year exceeds the salary that would have been paid to that prescribed staff in respect of that year or that part of that year if salary had been paid at the rate or scale of rates recommended by the Academic Salaries Tribunal.

(4) In subsection (2), a reference to a relevant certificate furnished to the Commission in compliance with the conditions attaching to a grant of financial assistance shall be read as a reference:

(a) in a case where the grant of financial assistance is a grant in relation to a university in respect of the year 1981 under section 6 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978—to a certificate furnished in compliance with subsection 6(2AA) of that Act;

(b) in a case where the grant of financial assistance is a grant in relation to a college of advanced education in respect of the year 1981 under section 14 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978—to a certificate furnished in compliance with subsection 14(2A) of that Act;

(c) in a case where the grant of financial assistance is a grant to a university in respect of the year 1982 or 1983 under section 7 of this Act—to a certificate furnished in compliance with paragraph 7(2)(d) of this Act; and

(d) in a case where the grant of financial assistance is a grant to a college of advanced education in respect of the year 1982 or 1983 under section 15 of this Act—to a certificate furnished in compliance with paragraph 15(2)(d) of this Act.

(5) As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under subsection (2), he shall cause a statement setting out particulars of the direction to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

43 Time and manner of payments

Financial assistance payable to a State under this Act shall be paid in such amounts, and at such times, as the Minister determines in accordance with arrangements approved by the Minister for Finance.

44 Delegation

(1) The Commission may, by resolution, either generally or as otherwise provided by the resolution:

(a) delegate to a full‑time member of the Commission or to the Universities Council established under section 19 of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977 all or any of its powers under section 4 or 41 in relation to building projects of universities or all or any of its powers under Part II;

(b) delegate to a full‑time member of the Commission or to the Advanced Education Council established under section 22 of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977 all or any of its powers under section 4 or 41 in relation to building projects of colleges of advanced education or all or any of its powers under Part III; and

(c) delegate to a full‑time member of the Commission or to the Technical and Further Education Council established under section 25 of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977 all or any of its powers under section 4 or 41 in relation to building projects of technical and further education institutions or all or any of its powers under Part IV.

(2) A power so delegated, when exercised by the delegate, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been exercised by the Commission.

(3) A delegation of a power under this section:

(a) may be revoked by resolution of the Commission (whether or not constituted by the persons constituting the Commission at the time the power was delegated);

(b) does not prevent the exercise of the power by the Commission; and

(4) Section 34A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 applies in relation to a delegation under this section as if the Commission were a person.

(5) A certificate signed by the Chairman stating any matter with respect to a delegation of a power under this section is prima facie evidence of that matter.

(6) A document purporting to be a certificate mentioned in subsection (5) shall, unless the contrary is established, be deemed to be such a certificate and to have been duly given.

45 Advances

The Minister and the Minister for Finance may make arrangements for the making by the Minister for Finance to a State, by way of financial assistance to the State, of advances on account of an amount that is expected to become payable under a provision of this Act to the State, and the conditions that would be applicable to a payment of the amount under that provision are applicable to any such advance.

46 Payments may be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or the Loan Fund

Payments (including an advance under section 45) to a State under this Act may be made out of:

(a) in the case of payments under section 10, 13, 13A, 13B, 19, 21, 21A, 21B, 24, 25, 33, 34, 34A or 34B—the Consolidated Revenue Fund or the Loan Fund; or

(b) in any other case—the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

47 Authority to borrow

The Treasurer may, from time to time, in accordance with the provisions of the Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act 1911, or in accordance with the provisions of an Act authorizing the issue of Treasury Bills, borrow moneys not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of the amounts payable to the States under sections 10, 13, 13A, 13B, 19, 21, 21A, 21B, 24, 25, 33, 34, 34A and 34B.

48 Application of moneys borrowed

Moneys borrowed under section 47 shall be issued and applied only for the expenses of borrowing, for the purpose of making payments to the States in accordance with section 10, 13, 13A, 13B, 19, 21, 21A, 21B, 24, 25, 33, 34, 34A or 34B and for the purpose of making payments to the Consolidated Revenue Fund in accordance with section 49.

49 Reimbursement of Consolidated Revenue Fund from Loan Fund

(1) Where an amount has been paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund in accordance with section 10, 13, 13A, 13B, 19, 21, 21A, 21B, 24, 25, 33, 34, 34A or 34B, the Minister for Finance may authorize the payment to that Fund, out of the Loan Fund, of an amount not exceeding the amount so paid.

(2) In any statement of the receipts and expenditure, or of the expenditure, of the Consolidated Revenue Fund prepared by the Minister for Finance under section 49 or 50 of the Audit Act 1901, amounts paid to the Consolidated Revenue Fund under subsection (1) of this section shall not be shown as receipts of that Fund but shall be shown as having reduced the total of the amounts expended from that Fund under this Act.

50 Appropriation

The Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Loan Fund are appropriated as necessary for the purposes of this Act.

52 Report by Minister

The Minister shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each year to which this Act applies, cause a report setting out details of:

(a) determinations made by him during that year under subsections 9(2), 26(1) and 38(3) and any instruments made by him during that year revoking or varying any determinations so made; and

(b) determinations made by the Commission during that year under subsections 11(2) and 20(2);

to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

Schedule 1—Maximum Grants Available for Expenditure by Universities on University Purposes

Section 7

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Amount of grant in respect of 1982	Amount of grant in respect of 1983	Amount of grant in respect of 1984
University
	$	$	$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney....................	105,920,000	112,880,000	121,974,000
The University of New South Wales.........	102,260,000	108,820,000	117,466,000
University of New England...............	32,110,000	33,890,000	36,597,000
The University of Newcastle..............	27,590,000	28,960,000	31,091,000
The Macquarie University................	39,350,000	41,670,000	44,862,000
The University of Wollongong.............	19,851,000	23,020,000	26,046,000
Total............................	327,081,000	349,240,000	378,036,000
Victoria—
University of Melbourne.................	91,310,000	97,757,000	106,555,272
Monash University.....................	74,350,000	79,080,000	85,367,000
La Trobe University....................	38,330,000	40,690,000	44,298,000
Deakin University......................	18,540,000	19,890,000	22,010,000
Total............................	222,530,000	237,417,000	258,230,272
Queensland—
The University of Queensland.............	86,080,000	91,673,000	99,585,817
James Cook University of North Queensland..	20,620,000	21,895,000	23,842,091
Griffith University......................	14,240,000	15,368,000	17,339,296
Total............................	120,940,000	128,936,000	140,767,204
Western Australia—
The University of Western Australia.........	51,990,000	55,455,000	60,089,840
Murdoch University.....................	16,720,000	17,879,000	19,883,134
Total............................	68,710,000	73,334,000	79,972,974
South Australia—
The University of Adelaide...............	54,630,000	57,850,000	62,187,000
The Flinders University of South Australia....	25,530,000	27,070,000	29,359,000
Total............................	80,160,000	84,920,000	91,546,000
Tasmania—
University of Tasmania..................	30,650,000	32,918,000	35,576,334
TOTAL—ALL STATES	850,071,000	906,765,000	984,128,784

Schedule 2—Special Purposes in Relation to Grants for Expenditure by Universities on University Purposes

Subsection 7(4)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
		Amount of expenditure in respect	Amount of expenditure in respect	Amount of expenditure in respect
University	Purpose	of 1982	of 1983	of 1984
		$	$	$
The University of Newcastle	School of Medicine for teaching and research	3,790,000	4,030,000	4,324,000
University of Melbourne	Development of graduate teaching and research in management education	nil	220,000	354,000
Monash University	Legal Workshop course	330,000	350,000	374,000

Schedule 2A—Special Purposes in Relation to Grants for Expenditure by Universities on Advanced Education Teaching Purposes

Subsection 7(4)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
		Amount of expenditure in respect	Amount of expenditure in respect	Amount of expenditure in respect
University	Purpose	of 1982	of 1983	of 1984
		$	$	$
The University of Wollongong	Teaching responsibilities transferred from Wollongong Institute of Education	1,510,000	2,610,000	2,815,000
James Cook University of North Queensland	Teaching responsibilities transferred from Townsville College of Advanced Education	2,395,000	2,610,000	2,815,000

Schedule 3—Special Research Grants for Universities

Section 8

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Amount of grant in respect of	Amount of grant in respect of	Amount of grant in respect of
University	1982	1983	1984
	$	$	$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney....................	1,170,000	1,450,000	2,163,000
The University of New South Wales.........	1,040,000	1,340,000	1,938,000
University of New England...............	245,000	425,000	621,000
The University of Newcastle..............	180,000	305,000	450,000
The Macquarie University................	320,000	465,000	696,000
The University of Wollongong.............	105,000	180,000	257,000
Total	3,060,000	4,165,000	6,125,000
Victoria—
University of Melbourne.................	1,190,000	1,340,000	1,959,000
Monash University.....................	915,000	1,010,000	1,456,000
La Trobe University....................	315,000	505,000	728,000
Deakin University......................	55,000	140,000	224,000
Total	2,475,000	2,995,000	4,367,000
Queensland—
The University of Queensland.............	910,000	1,200,000	1,746,000
James Cook University of North Queensland..	100,000	210,000	342,000
Griffith University......................	75,000	150,000	214,000
Total	1,085,000	1,560,000	2,302,000
Western Australia—
The University of Western Australia.........	400,000	680,000	1,049,000
Murdoch University.....................	80,000	150,000	236,000
Total	480,000	830,000	1,285,000
South Australia—
The University of Adelaide...............	770,000	840,000	1,071,000
The Flinders University of South Australia....	175,000	260,000	386,000
Total	945,000	1,100,000	1,457,000
Tasmania—
University of Tasmania..................	180,000	270,000	396,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES	8,225,000	10,920,000	15,932,000

Schedule 4—Grants for Equipment for Universities

Section 10

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Grant for approved proposals in respect	Grant for approved proposals in respect	Grant for approved proposals in respect
University	of 1982	of 1983	of 1984
	$	$	$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney....................	5,540,000	5,660,000	6,637,000
The University of New South Wales.........	5,050,000	5,300,000	6,214,000
University of New England...............	1,020,000	1,015,000	1,232,000
The University of Newcastle..............	1,570,000	1,425,000	1,603,000
The Macquarie University................	1,060,000	1,100,000	1,295,000
The University of Wollongong.............	1,010,000	1,110,000	1,265,000
Total	15,250,000	15,610,000	18,246,000
Victoria—
University of Melbourne.................	4,650,000	4,830,000	5,578,000
Monash University.....................	2,750,000	2,940,000	3,511,000
La Trobe University....................	1,180,000	1,290,000	1,632,000
Deakin University......................	960,000	960,000	1,025,000
Total	9,540,000	10,020,000	11,746,000
Queensland—
The University of Queensland.............	4,650,000	4,750,000	5,555,000
James Cook University of North Queensland..	790,000	810,000	882,000
Griffith University......................	500,000	540,000	687,000
Total	5,940,000	6,100,000	7,124,000
Western Australia—
The University of Western Australia.........	2,320,000	2,460,000	2,910,000
Murdoch University.....................	620,000	670,000	807,000
Total	2,940,000	3,130,000	3,717,000
South Australia—
The University of Adelaide...............	2,970,000	2,990,000	3,414,000
The Flinders University of South Australia....	920,000	900,000	1,047,000
Total............................	3,890,000	3,890,000	4,461,000
Tasmania—
University of Tasmania..................	930,000	960,000	1,156,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES...............	38,490,000	39,710,000	46,450,000

Schedule 5—Specified Equipment in Relation to Grants for Equipment for Universities

Section 10(5)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
University	Equipment	Amount of expenditure on approved proposals in respect of 1982
		$
The University of Newcastle	Equipment for Faculty of Medicine	425,000

Schedule 6—Grants for Recurrent Expenditure of Teaching Hospitals of Universities

Section 12

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Grant in respect of	Grant in respect of	Grant in respect of
University	1982	1983	1984
	$	$	$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney....................	470,000	515,000	556,000
The University of New South Wales.........	440,000	475,000	514,000
The University of Newcastle..............	70,000	80,000	86,000
Total............................	980,000	1,070,000	1,156,000
Victoria—
University of Melbourne.................	490,000	535,000	578,000
Monash University.....................	280,000	305,000	332,000
Total............................	770,000	840,000	910,000
Queensland—
University of Queensland................	350,000	375,000	406,000
Western Australia—
The University of Western Australia.........	160,000	180,000	192,000
South Australia—
The University of Adelaide...............	280,000	305,000	332,000
The Flinders University of South Australia....	90,000	100,000	108,000
Total............................	370,000	405,000	440,000
Tasmania—
University of Tasmania..................	70,000	80,000	86,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES...............	2,700,000	2,950,000	3,190,000

Schedule 7

Sections 13, 21 and 34

PART I—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED BUILDING PROJECTS OF UNIVERSITIES
IN RESPECT OF 1982

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
		Maximum
		Commonwealth contribution towards cost	Maximum grant in respect of
University	Project	of project	1982
		$	$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney	Architecture Building—Stage II......	5,130,000	400,000
University of New England	Dixon Library Extension...........	3,170,000	1,780,000
The University of Newcastle	Medical School—Clinical Teaching Facilities	10,490,000	830,000
Victoria—
University of Melbourne	Refurbishing of Chemistry Building— Stage I......................	1,230,000	870,000
	Refurbishing of Chemistry Building—Stage II..	1,380,000	400,000
Queensland—
The University of Queensland	Social Sciences (Psychology) Building–Stage II	3,090,000	2,420,000
	Clinical Sciences Building..........	3,360,000	400,000
	Total...................		7,100,000

PART II—GRANTS FOR MINOR BUILDING PROJECTS OF UNIVERSITIES
APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION IN RESPECT OF 1982

Column 1	Column 2
University	Maximum grant in respect of 1982
	$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney........................................	800,000
The University of New South Wales.............................	550,000
University of New England....................................	320,000
The University of Newcastle...................................	280,000
The Macquarie University.....................................	180,000
The University of Wollongong..................................	330,000
Total.................................................		2,460,000

Victoria—A
University of Melbourne......................................	800,000
Monash University..........................................	320,000
La Trobe University.........................................	250,000
Deakin University..........................................	350,000
Total.................................................		1,720,000
Queensland—
The University of Queensland..................................	650,000
James Cook University of North Queensland.......................	270,000
Griffith University...........................................	180,000
Total.................................................		1,100,000
South Australia—
The University of Adelaide....................................	400,000
The Flinders University of South Australia.........................	180,000
Total.................................................		580,000
Western Australia—
The University of Western Australia.............................	300,000
Murdoch University.........................................	180,000
Total.................................................		480,000
Tasmania—
University of Tasmania......................................	450,000
Total—All States........................................		6,790,000

PART III—SPECIFIED DESIGN PROJECTS OF UNIVERSITIES

Column 1	Column 2
University	Project
New South Wales—
University of New England	Design of Animal House
Victoria—
Deakin University	Design of General Purpose Academic Building—Stage I
Queensland—
The University of Queensland	Design of Priestley Building—Stage II

Total of all grants payable in respect of design projects specified in this Part of this Schedule—$200,000.

PART IV—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED BUILDING PROJECTS OF COLLEGES OF ADVANCED EDUCATION IN RESPECT OF 1982

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
		Maximum
		Commonwealth contribution	Maximum grant in
College of		towards cost	respect to
Advanced Education	Project	of project	1982
		$	$
New South Wales—
Nepean College of Advan‑ ced Education	Teaching Building	1,650,000	300,000
Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education	Relocation on New Campus, Stage 1	3,942,000	1,359,000
The New South Wales Institute of Technology	Building for joint use with Sydney College of Advanced Education	15,868,000	2,831,000
Total—New South Wales			4,490,000
Victoria—
Royal Melbourne Institute of	Erection of Union	6,161,000	1,315,000
Technology	Renovations to Buildings 5, 7 and 9—Stage 1	1,291,000	835,000
	Renovations to Buildings 7 and 9—Stage 2	1,400,000	300,000
Total—Victoria			2,450,000
Queensland—
Brisbane College of Ad‑ vanced Education	Renovations to I and A Blocks—Kelvin Grove Campus	720,000	300,000
Queensland Institute of Technology	Business Studies Building	4,331,000	361,000
Total—Queensland			661,000
South Australia—
South Australian College of Advanced Education	Fire Protection—Kintore Avenue Campus	640,000	355,000
Total—South Australia			355,000
Western Australia—
Western Australia Institute of Technology	Technology Building, School of Mines, Kalgoorlie	2,251,000	1,669,000
Total—Western Australia			1,669,000
Total—All States			9,625,000

PART V—GRANTS FOR MINOR BUILDING PROJECTS FOR COLLEGES OF ADVANCED EDUCATION IN RESPECT OF 1982

Column 1	Column 2
	Maximum grant in respect of
State	1982
	$
New South Wales.............................................	1,950,000
Victoria.....................................................	3,010,000
Queensland.................................................	1,030,000
South Australia...............................................	800,000
Western Australia.............................................	600,000
Tasmania...................................................	150,000
Total—All States...........................................		7,540,000

PART VI—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED BUILDING PROJECTS OF TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN RESPECT OF 1982

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
		Maximum
		Commonwealth	Maximum
Institution providing technical and further		contribution towards cost	grant in respect of
education	Project	of project	1982
		$	$
New South Wales—
Baulkham Hills Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for secretarial, fashion and home science courses, library and college administration	4,707,000	2,000,000
Blacktown Technical College	Stage III: Reconstruction of factory for automotive, carpentry and secretarial courses and student services	6,925,000	2,835,000
Brookvale Technical College	Stages II and III: Buildings for trade and fashion courses	6,743,000	1,373,000
Forbes Technical College	Stage II: Extension to existing building for secretarial and fashion courses and student services	1,212,000	582,000
Glendale Technical College	Buildings for engineering and electrical trades and commercial courses	10,389,000	590,000
Gymea Technical College	Stage IV: Replacement buildings for automotive and engineering trades	3,364,000	402,000
Meadowbank Technical College	Stage IV: Building for mechanical engineering, hairdressing, fashion, business and home science courses	6,996,000	2,840,000
Mount Druitt Technical College	Stage II: Buildings for automotive and commercial courses	6,649,000	240,000
Newcastle Technical College (Tighes Hill)	Stage X: Building for electrical trades courses	7,920,000	2,700,000
(Wood Street)	Stage XI: Building for catering trades, butchery and home science courses	9,060,000	2,912,000
North Sydney Technical College	Stage VII: Building for film and television, hairdressing and general studies courses	8,020,000	2,576,000
Orana Community College (Dubbo)	Stage I: Buildings for rural studies and ceramics courses, library, student services and college administration	7,045,000	2,240,000
Petersham Technical College	Stage III: Building for secretarial and hairdressing courses, library and student services	4,895,000	2,300,000
Shellharbour Technical College	Stage II: Buildings for trade and commercial courses and student services	6,330,000	1,314,000
Sydney Technical College	Reconstruction of Building 13; Admis‑ sions and information centre	2,663,000	257,000
	Stage IIIA: Building for library, general studies and chiropody	9,303,000	2,800,000
	Buildings 38 and 39, Stage II: Reconstruction for secretarial studies and general classrooms	3,352,000	1,502,000
	Buildings 38 and 39, Stage III: Reconstruction for general classrooms and student services	1,978,000	1,200,000
Tamworth Technical College	Stage IV: Building for student services and metal fabrication courses	2,794,000	374,000
	Stage V: Buildings for plumbing, plant mechanics and general classrooms	2,974,000	2,000,000
Wagga Wagga Technical College	Stage IV: Building for panel‑beating and spray‑painting workshops	2,780,000	1,613,000
	Stage V: Building for automotive, welding and boilermaking courses	3,799,000	1,471,000
Wetherill Park Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for trade courses, college services and administration	3,061,000	331,000
	Stage II: Buildings for plant mechanics and fitting and machining courses	4,242,000	2,760,000
Wollongong Technical College	Stage VII: Building for secretarial studies and extension to union building	2,776,000	826,000
	Stage VIII: Building for panel‑beating and spray‑painting workshops	2,911,000	2,261,000
Wyong Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for plumbing, secretarial, home science and fashion courses, student services and college administration	5,235,000	2,500,000
Victoria—
Ballarat School of Mines	Stage I: Buildings for trade courses and student services	3,519,000	370,000
Bendigo Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for trade, farm mechanics, art and design courses	7,087,000	2,400,000
Box Hill Technical College	Stage II: Building for humanities and science studies, food catering courses and student services	9,139,000	1,176,000
	Stage III: Building for technician courses	4,331,000	550,000
Broadmeadows Technical College	Design of multi‑purpose college	392,000
Colleges of Hairdressing, Painting and Decorating, and Food Studies (La Trobe Street)	Stage I: Building for library, computer centre, student services and college administration	4,623,000	1,800,000
Dandenong College of Technical and Further Education	Stage II: Buildings for fitting and machining, building, art and computer courses and general studies	9,172,000	1,568,000
Footscray Technical College	Stage II: Building for engineering, humanities and social science courses, library, student services and college administration	11,362,000	3,400,000
	Stage III: Design of buildings for applied science, mathematics, child care and applied art courses and refurbishment for business studies		168,000
Frankston Technical College	Stage I: Building for fitting and machining, electrical and building courses and reconstruction for classrooms and college administration	8,420,000	1,680,000
Gordon Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for electrical, art and design, hairdressing, science and child care courses, library and general classrooms	6,737,000	1,176,000
McMillan Rural Studies Centre	Stage I: Buildings for base facility containing teaching areas, library, college administration, and subsidiary teaching centres	4,064,000	960,000
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology	Stage IIB: Building for engineering studies	13,239,000	3,901,000
Shepparton Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for rural studies, electrical, building, metal fabrication, fitting and machining and automotive courses	6,431,000	1,668,000
Sunraysia College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Buildings for commercial, applied science, food and trade courses	6,825,000	1,692,000
Wangaratta Technical College	Stage II: Buildings for business studies, science and art courses, library and student services	6,346,000	1,500,000
Yallourn Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for trade courses	5,291,000	873,000
	Stage II: Buildings for fitting and machining, electrical, instrumentation, metal fabrication and building courses and refurbishing of workshops for trade courses	5,656,000	1,500,000
Queensland—
Ayr‑Home Hill College of Technical and Further Education	Construction of multi‑purpose college	6,405,000	1,318,000
Bald Hills College of Technical and Further Education	Stage III: Buildings for catering and science courses and library	4,241,000	359,000
Bundaberg College of Technical and Further Education	Design of building for business studies, automotive, fashion and art and craft courses, library, college administra‑ tion and student services		80,000
College of Hospitality and Tourism (South Brisbane)	Stage I: Building for school of catering and hospitality services	10,462,000	3,000,000
Gladstone College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Buildings for trade and commercial courses, library and student services	5,490,000	1,942,000
Gold Coast College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Building for tourist industry, business and general studies courses, library and student and staff services	6,263,000	2,140,000
	Stage II: Buildings for automotive, electrical and building trades	2,978,000	1,628,000
Grovely College of Technical and Further Education	Design of buildings for horticultural courses		45,000
Mount Gravatt College of Technical and Further Education	Stages III and IV: Buildings for applied science, food courses, commercial studies and arts and crafts courses, library, student services and college administration	9,061,000	2,792,000
South Australia—
Elizabeth Community College	Stage III: Building for business studies courses, cafeteria and staff and student services	2,458,000	150,000
	Stage IV: Building for classrooms and reconstruction of workshops for building, engineering, electrical and metal trades	4,631,000	1,880,000
Marleston College of Further Education	Stage I: Reconstruction of college for building trades	4,808,000	2,100,000
Noarlunga Community College	Stage I: Construction of multi‑purpose college	12,518,000	2,874,000
Panorama Community College	Buildings for classrooms, library and student services and reconstruction of workshops for engineering and metal trades	5,164,000	1,000,000
Port Adelaide Community College	Stage I: Reconstruction of building for business and commercial studies, library and college administration	961,000	117,000
Regency Park Community College	Stage V: Building for plumbing trades	3,269,000	198,000
Riverland Community College (Loxton)	Stage I: Multi‑purpose facility for commercial, rural and technical studies	709,000	559,000
Western Australia—
Albany Technical College	Stage VII: Building for catering trades and computer studies	2,418,000	955,000
Fremantle Technical College	Stage I: Building for library and extensions to metal trades and rural studies workshops	2,322,000	1,554,000
Hedland Community College	Stage I: Buildings for electrical, automotive, metal trades, commercial, science and art courses	7,654,000	3,700,000
Rockingham Technical College	Stage II: Buildings for fitting and machining and automotive studies and student services	5,696,000	485,000
Technical Education Division—Technical Extension Service	Stage II: Building to accommodate teaching staff	3,055,000	572,000
Thornlie Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for electrical, metal trades and heavy plant and equipment maintenance courses	7,136,000	149,000
	Stage II: Buildings for furniture and building trades courses and a pump test facility	3,234,000	1,754,000
	Stage III: Building for hairdressing, commercial, accounting, management and science courses	2,814,000	862,000
	Stage IV: Design of buildings for library and student services		200,000
Tasmania—
Alanvale Community College	Building for electrical and electronics courses	2,515,000	2,044,000
	Design of building for school of metal fabrication		241,000
Burnie Community College	Building for second phase of student residence	1,049,000	990,000
Hobart Technical College	Stage II: Building for technical and general courses	11,461,000	647,000
Northern Territory—
Batchelor College	Replacement of Aboriginal teacher education centre	4,764,000	2,343,000
Darwin Community College	Extensions to the school of trades	2,579,000	169,000
	Building for schools of business and management and general studies	4,270,000	1,680,000

Schedule 7A

Sections 13A, 21A and 34A

PART I—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED BUILDING PROJECTS OF UNIVERSITIES IN

RESPECT OF 1983

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3		Column 4
		Maximum
		Commonwealth		Maximum
		contribution		grant in
		towards cost		respect of
University	Project	of project		1983
		$		$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney	Architecture building Stage 2	5,780,000		4,220,000
University of New England	Dixon Library extension	3,403,000		186,000
The University of Newcastle	Animal breeding and holding facilities	822,000		228,000
	Medical School Clinical teaching facilities	10,883,000		705,000
Victoria—
University of Melbourne	Refurbishing of Chemistry building Stage 2	1,448,000		1,048,000
	Graduate School of Manage‑ ment Building	4,600,000		800,000
Queensland—
The University of Queensland	Clinical sciences building Block 6, Royal Brisbane Hospital	3,820,000		592,000
	Priestley Building, Stage 2 computer centre and com‑ puter science	3,503,000		1,706,000
South Australia—
The Flinders University of South Australia	Library storage facilities for joint use with University of Adelaide	1,080,000		285,000
Western Australia—
The University of Western Australia	Human Movement and Rec‑ reation Studies building, Stage 2	1,681,000		342,000
Total			10,112,000

PART II—GRANTS FOR MINOR BUILDING PROJECTS OF UNIVERSITIES APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION IN RESPECT OF 1983

Column 1		Column 2
University	Maximum grant in respect of 1983
			$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney..........................................			890,000
The University of New South Wales...............................			590,000
University of New England.....................................			360,000
The University of Newcastle....................................			320,000
The Macquarie University......................................			190,000
The University of Wollongong...................................			490,000
Total.................................................				2,840,000
Victoria—
University of Melbourne.......................................			890,000
Monash University...........................................			340,000
La Trobe University..........................................			260,000
Deakin University............................................			380,000
Total.................................................				1,870,000
Queensland—
The University of Queensland...................................			350,000
James Cook University of North Queensland........................			420,000
Griffith University............................................			190,000
Total.................................................				960,000
South Australia—
The University of Adelaide.....................................			430,000
The Flinders University of South Australia..........................			290,000
Total.................................................				720,000
Western Australia—
The University of Western Australia...............................			320,000
Murdoch University...........................................			180,000
Total.................................................				500,000
Tasmania—
University of Tasmania........................................			490,000
Total All States.........................................				7,380,000

PART III—SPECIFIED DESIGN PROJECTS OF UNIVERSITIES

Column 1	Column 2
University	Project
Victoria—
University of Melbourne.........................	Design of Zoology building

Total of all grants payable in respect of design projects specified in this Part of this Schedule—$228,000.

PART IV—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED BUILDING PROJECTS OF COLLEGES OF ADVANCED EDUCATION IN RESPECT OF 1983

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
		Maximum
		Commonwealth contribution towards cost	Maximum grant in respect of
College of Advanced Education	Project	of project	1983
		$	$
New South Wales—
Nepean College of Ad‑ vanced Education	Teaching building.........	2,147,000	1,728,000
Design of teaching accom‑ modation	Kingswood campus.......	250,000	250,000
The New South Wales Institute of Technology and Sydney College of Advanced Education	Building for business studies, law and TAFE teacher education	19,918,000	8,802,000
Total—New South Wales			10,780,000
Victoria—
Gippsland Institute of Ad‑ vanced Education	Technology building.......	5,763,000	680,000
Phillip Institute of Tech‑ nology	Purchase of Chiropractic Clinics	200,000	200,000
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Ltd	Renovations to Buildings 5, 7 and 9 Stage I	1,591,000	300,000
	Renovations to Buildings 7 and 9 Stage II	1,240,000	940,000
	Renovations to Buildings 7 and 9 Stage III	2,616,000	660,000
Total—Victoria			2,780,000
Queensland—
Brisbane College of Ad‑ vanced Education	Renovations to I and A Blocks—Kelvin Grove Campus	815,000	480,000
Total—Queensland			480,000
Total—All States			14,040,000

PART V—GRANTS FOR MINOR BUILDING PROJECTS
FOR COLLEGES OF ADVANCED EDUCATION
IN RESPECT OF 1983

Column 1	Column 2
	Maximum grant in respect of
State	1983
	$
New South Wales....................	2,290,000
Victoria............................	3,220,000
Queensland........................	1,170,000
South Australia......................	910,000
Western Australia....................	680,000
Tasmania..........................	170,000
Total—All States..................		8,440,000

PART VI—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED BUILDING PROJECTS OF TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN RESPECT OF 1983

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3			Column 4
		Maximum
		Commonwealth			Maximum
Institution providing		contribution			grant in
technical and further		towards cost			respect of
education	Project	of project			1983
		$			$
New South Wales—
Baulkham Hills College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Buildings for secretarial, fashion and home science courses, library and college administration	3,976,000			993,000
Blacktown College of Technical and Further Education	Stage III: Reconstruction of factory for automotive, carpentry and secretarial courses and student services	8,028,000			1,827,000
Hamilton College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage I: Building for catering trades, butchery and home science courses	10,791,000			4,097,000
Lithgow College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage I: Building for fitting and machining, electrical and automotive courses	6,031,000			1,138,000
Meadowbank College of Technical and Further Education	Stage IV: Building for mechanical engineering, hairdressing, fashion, business and home science courses	8,970,000			3,186,000
Newcastle Technical Col‑ lege	Stage X: Building for electrical trades courses	9,466,000			3,755,000
North Sydney Technical College	Stage VII: Building for film and television, hairdressing and general studies courses	9,076,000			3,755,000
Orana Community College (Dubbo)	Stage I: Buildings for rural studies and ceramics courses, library, student services and college administration	7,468,000			3,869,000
Petersham College of Technical and Further Education	Stage III: Building for secretarial and hairdressing courses, library and student services	5,601,000			1,323,000
Sydney Technical College	Stage III: Building for library, general studies and chiropody	9,815,000			1,866,000
	Stage IV: Building for preparatory and tertiary orientation programs	14,447,000			1,707,000
	Buildings 38/39, Stage III: Reconstruction for general classrooms and student services	2,356,000			1,456,000
	Buildings 38/39, Stage IV: Reconstruction for hairdressing courses, library and student services	2,073,000			1,138,000
Tamworth Technical Col‑ lege	Stage V: Buildings for plumbing, plant mechanics and general classrooms	3,419,000			910,000
Wagga Wagga College of Technical and Further Education Technical College	Stage IV: Building for panel‑beating and spray‑painting workshops	2,664,000			372,000
	Stage V: Building for automotive, welding and boilermaking courses	3,870,000			1,707,000
	Stage VI: Buildings for classrooms, library and staff and student services	4,665,000			910,000
Wetherill Park College of Technical and Further Education	Stage II: Buildings for plant mechanics and fitting and machining courses	4,191,000			1,707,000
	Stage III: Buildings for panel‑beating and spray‑painting workshops, secretarial, home science and fashion courses, classrooms and staff and student services	8,891,000			683,000
Wollongong College of Technical and Further Education	Stage VIII: Building for panel‑beating and spray‑painting workshops	3,356,000			646,000
Wyong College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Buildings for plumbing, secretarial, home science and fashion courses, student services and college administration	5,549,000			456,000
Total—New South Wales				37,501,000
Victoria—
Bendigo Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for trade, farm mechanics, art and design courses	7,276,000			2,017,000
Broadmeadows College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Construction of new College	12,736,000			2,845,000
Colleges of Hairdressing, Painting and Decor‑ ating, and Food Studies (La Trobe Street)	Stage I: Building for library, computer centre, student ser‑ vices and college administration	5,256,000			2,056,000
Dandenong College of Technical and Further Education	Stage II: Buildings for fitting and machining, building, art and computer courses and general studies	10,886,000			4,211,000
Footscray College of Technical and Further Education	Stage II: Building for engineering, humanities and social science courses, library, student ser‑ vices and college administration	12,759,000			4,097,000
	Stage III: Buildings for applied science, mathematics, child care and applied art courses and refurbishment for business studies	4,570,000			910,000
Frankston College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Building for fitting and machining, electrical and build‑ ing courses and reconstruction for classrooms and college administration	9,885,000			4,324,000
Gordon Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for electrical, art and design, hairdressing, science and child care courses, library and general classrooms	8,061,000			2,959,000
Knox College of Technical and Further Education	Design of Stage I: New College	12,447,000			683,000
Preston College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage III: Building for applied science and child care courses, general classrooms and student services	3,114,000			455,000
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology	Stage IIB: Building for engineering studies	13,381,000			1,165,000
Shepparton College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Buildings for rural studies, electrical, building, metal fabrication, fitting and machining and automobile courses	7,704,000			2,731,000
Sunraysia College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Buildings for commercial, applied science, food and trade courses	7,073,000			756,000
Wangaratta College of Technical and Further Education	Stage II: Buildings for business studies, science and art courses, library and student services	6,760,000			2,204,000
Yallourn College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage II: Buildings for fitting and machining, electrical, instrumen‑ tation, metal fabrication and building courses and re‑ furbishing of workshops for trade courses	6,283,000			3,073,000
Total—Victoria				34,486,000
Queensland—
Burdekin College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Construction of multi‑purpose college	7,520,000			3,642,000
Central Highlands College of Technical and Further Education	Design of Stage I: New College	7,716,000			341,000
College of Hospitality and Tourism (South Bris‑ bane)	Stage I: Building for school of catering and hospitality services	12,619,000			4,893,000
Grovely College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage I: Buildings for horticultural courses	3,559,000			2,276,000
Mount Gravatt College of Technical and Further Education	Stages III and IV: Buildings for applied science, food courses, commercial studies, arts and crafts courses, library, student services and college admin‑ istration	10,571,000			2,845,000
Rockhampton College of Technical and Further Education	Design of Stage I: Building for business and general studies, hairdressing and catering and hospitality courses	7,138,000			341,000
Townsville College of Technical and Further Education	Stage II: Building for school of catering and hospitality services	5,189,000			1,138,000
Total—Queensland					15,476,000
South Australia—
Adelaide College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage I: Building for hairdressing, business and commercial studies courses, staff and student service areas	10,347,000			1,707,000
Elizabeth Community Col‑ lege	Stage IV: Building for classrooms and reconstruction of work‑ shops for building, engineering, electrical and metal trades	5,434,000			3,224,000
Marleston College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Reconstruction of college for building trades	5,030,000			378,000
Noarlunga College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Construction of multi‑purpose college	12,924,000			1,248,000
Panorama Community College	Stage I: Buildings for classrooms, library and student services and reconstruction of workshops for engineering and metal trades	6,388,000			3,288,000
Riverland Community College (Loxton)	Stage I: Multi‑purpose facility for commercial, rural and technical studies	797,000			220,000
South East Community College	Stage III: Buildings for courses for forestry and timber industry	1,872,000			1,479,000
Total—South Australia				11,544,000
Western Australia—
Albany Technical College	Stage VII: Building for catering trades and computer studies	2,526,000			1,571,000
Bunbury Technical Col‑ lege	Stage II: Buildings for catering trades and computer studies	2,940,000			1,677,000
Fremantle Technical Col‑ lege	Stage I: Building for library and extensions to metal trades and rural studies workshops	2,379,000			825,000
	Stage II: Building for business studies, food technology, en‑ gineering and science courses	5,541,000			1,550,000
Hedland Community Col‑ lege	Stage I: Buildings for electrical, automotive, metal trades, com‑ mercial, science and art courses	7,782,000			2,173,000
Rockingham Technical College	Stage III: Buildings for art studies	719,000			719,000
Thornlie Technical Col‑ lege	Stage II: Buildings for furniture and building trades courses and a pump test facility	3,272,000			127,000
	Stage III: Building for hairdressing, commercial, accounting, man‑ agement and science courses	2,959,000			2,097,000
	Stage IV: Buildings for library and student services	3,235,000			646,000
Total—Western Australia				11,385,000
Tasmania—
Alanvale Community Col‑ lege	Stage I: Building for electrical and electronics courses	2,751,000			600,000
	Stage II: Building for courses in metal fabrication	2,377,000			1,138,000
Total—Tasmania					1,738,000
Northern Territory—
Darwin Community Col‑ lege	Stage II: Building for schools of business and management and general studies	4,667,000			3,149,000
Katherine Rural Education Centre	Stage I: Construction of rural education centre and student residential	1,916,000			1,821,000
Total—Northern Territory					4,970,000
Total—All States			117,100,000

Schedule 7B

Sections 13B, 21B and 34B

PART I—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED BUILDING PROJECTS OF UNIVERSITIES
IN RESPECT OF 1984

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3		Column 4
		Maximum
		Commonwealth		Maximum
		contribution towards cost		grant in respect of
University	Project	of project		1984
		$		$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney	Architecture building—Stage 2	6,459,000		1,603,000
The University of Newcastle	Animal breeding and holding facilities	840,000		583,000
	Medical School—Clinical teaching facilities	11,158,000		1,176,000
The University of Wollongong	Science 2/Engineering Building	6,817,000		625,000
Victoria—
University of Melbourne	Graduate School of Management building	4,986,000		2,255,000
Deakin University	General purpose academic building, Stage 1	2,053,000		664,000
Queensland—
The University of Queensland	Clinical sciences building—Block 6, Royal Brisbane Hospital	4,012,000		2,578,000
	Priestley Building, Stage 2—computer centre and computer science	3,626,000		1,822,000
Western Australia—
The University of Western Australia	Human Movement and Recreation Studies building, Stage 2	2,085,000		1,535,000
Murdoch University	Student accommodation	364,000		364,000
South Australia—
The Flinders University of South Australia	Library storage facilities for joint use with University of Adelaide	1,159,000		874,000
Tasmania—
University of Tasmania	Extension to clinical science building—Royal Hobart Hospital	2,002,000		292,000
Total—All States			14,371,000

PART II—GRANTS FOR MINOR BUILDING PROJECTS OF UNIVERSITIES APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION IN RESPECT OF 1984

Column 1	Column 2
	Maximum grant
	in respect of
University	1984
		$
New South Wales—
University of Sydney..........................................		896,000
The University of New South Wales...............................		594,000
University of New England.....................................		385,000
The University of Newcastle....................................		333,000
The Macquarie University......................................		240,000
The University of Wollongong...................................		510,000
Total..................................................			2,958,000
Victoria—
University of Melbourne.......................................		896,000
Monash University...........................................		333,000
La Trobe University..........................................		312,000
Deakin University............................................		479,000
Total..................................................			2,020,000
Queensland—
The University of Queensland...................................		718,000
James Cook University of North Queensland........................		406,000
Griffith University............................................		177,000
Total..................................................			1,301,000
Western Australia—
The University of Western Australia...............................		527,000
Murdoch University...........................................		177,000
Total..................................................			704,000
South Australia—
The University of Adelaide.....................................		541,000
The Flinders University of South Australia..........................		240,000
Total..................................................			781,000
Tasmania—
University of Tasmania........................................		479,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES.....................................			8,243,000

PART III—SPECIFIED DESIGN PROJECTS OF UNIVERSITIES

Column 1	Column 2
University	Project
New South Wales—
The Macquarie University	General purpose academic building
Victoria—
La Trobe University	Library building, Stage 3

Total of all grants payable in respect of design projects specified in this Part of this Schedule—$521,000.

PART IV—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED BUILDING PROJECTS OF COLLEGES OF ADVANCED EDUCATION IN RESPECT OF 1984

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3		Column 4
		Maximum
		Commonwealth		Maximum
		contribution		grant in
College of Advanced		towards cost		respect of
Education	Project	of project		1984
		$		$
New South Wales—
Macarthur Institute of Higher Education	Campbelltown campus, Stage 1	8,244,000		2,186,000
The New South Wales Institute of Technology and Sydney College of Advanced Education	Building for business studies,law and TAFE teacher education	19,587,000		5,538,000
Total—New South Wales				7,724,000
Victoria—
Footscray Institute of Technology	Multi‑purpose academic building	5,930,000		1,233,000
Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education	Technology building	5,704,000		3,123,000
Phillip Institute of Technology	Design of teaching building—Coburg campus	208,000		208,000
	Teaching building—Coburg campus	2,230,000		400,000
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology	Renovations to Buildings 7 and 9, Stage III	2,534,000		1,874,000
Victorian College of the Arts	Refurbishing of Buildings G, V and W for School of Drama	448,000		448,000
Total—Victoria				7,286,000
Queensland—
Brisbane College of Advanced Education	Renovations to I and A Blocks—Kelvin Grove Campus	765,000		50,000
	Resources centre and teaching facilities at Carseldine campus	5,253,000		678,000
Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education	Purchase of building for Gladstone annex	315,000		200,000
Total—Queensland				928,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES			15,938,000

PART V—GRANTS FOR MINOR BUILDING PROJECTS FOR COLLEGES OF ADVANCED EDUCATION IN RESPECT OF 1984

Column 1	Column 2
	Maximum grant in respect of
State	1984
	$
New South Wales.............................................	2,395,000
Victoria.....................................................	3,092,000
Queensland.................................................	1,049,000
Western Australia.............................................	864,000
South Australia...............................................	937,000
Tasmania...................................................	156,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES......................................		8,493,000

PART VI—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED BUILDING PROJECTS OF TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN RESPECT OF 1984

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3		Column 4
		Maximum
		Commonwealth		Maximum
Institution providing		contribution		grant in
technical and further		towards cost		respect of
education	Project	of project		1984
		$		$
New South Wales—
Argyle College of Technical and Further Education (Goulburn)	New and refurbished facilities for electrical studies, fitting and machining and plant mechanics	4,308,000		244,000
Bega Technical College	New facilities for secretarial studies, multi‑purpose work‑ shop, library and classrooms..	2,876,000		144,000
Blacktown College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	New and refurbished facilities for fitting and machining, welding and fashion courses, library, general classrooms and college administration	4,144,000		2,000,000
Campbelltown College of Technical and Further Education	Multi‑purpose workshop	1,020,000		840,000
	Access centre for computing and small business courses	1,344,000		75,000
Gosford College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Access centre for computing and small business courses	1,590,000		91,000
Hamilton College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage I: Building for catering trades, butchery and home science courses	11,634,000		7,130,000
Hornsby College of Technical and Further Education	Building for carpentry and joinery, welding and bricklaying courses and general classrooms	5,395,000		1,900,000
Lithgow College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Building for fitting and machining, electrical and auto‑ motive courses............	5,473,000		2,840,000
Maitland College of Technical and Further Education	Construction of new college....	9,425,000		2,769,000
Meadowbank College of Technical and Further Education	Stage IV: Building for mechanical engineering, hairdressing, fashion, business and home science courses	8,390,000		840,000
Moss Vale College of Technical and Further Education	Buildings for metal fabrication courses, general classrooms, staff and student services	3,844,000		1,830,000
Mount Druitt College of Technical and Further Education	Multi‑purpose workshop	930,000		930,000
Murrumbidgee College of Agriculture (Yanco)	Buildings for rural studies courses, general classrooms and recon‑ struction of a library.........	1,396,000		770,000
Newcastle Technical Col‑ lege	Stage X: Building for electrical trades courses	9,098,000		730,000
North Sydney Technical College	Stage VII: Building for film and television, hairdressing and general studies courses	9,691,000		1,300,000
Orana Community College (Dubbo)	Stage I: Buildings for rural studies and ceramics courses, library, student services and college administration	6,870,000		1,670,000
Padstow College of Technical and Further Education	Facilities for aircraft trades.....	5,654,000		338,000
Seaforth College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	New and refurbished facilities for fashion, secretarial studies, science, art and design courses, general classrooms, staff and student services	3,162,000		880,000
Sydney Technical College	Stage IV: Building for preparatory and tertiary orientation pro‑ grams...................	11,811,000		5,770,000
	Building 38/39, Stage IV: Re‑ construction for hairdressing courses, library and student services	2,170,000		1,670,000
	Building 38/39, Stage V: Re‑ construction for engineering courses, general classrooms and student services	1,597,000		1,350,000
Wagga Wagga College of Technical and Further Education	Stage V: Building for automotive, welding and boilermaking courses	3,380,000		90,000
	Stage VI: Buildings for class‑ rooms, library and staff and student services	3,759,000		2,660,000
Wetherill Park College of Technical and Further Education	Stage III: Buildings for panel‑beating and spray‑painting workshops, secretarial, home science and fashion courses, classrooms and staff and student services	7,463,000		5,210,000
Total—New South Wales			44,071,000

Victoria—
Bendigo Technical College	Stage I: Buildings for trade, farm mechanics, art and design courses	6,883,000	838,000
Broadmeadows College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Construction of new college........	12,901,000	7,948,000
Colleges of Hairdressing, Painting and Decorating and Food Studies (La Trobe Street)	Stage I: Building for library, com‑puter centre, student services and college administration	5,071,000	618,000
Dandenong College of Technical and Further Education	Stage II: Buildings for fitting and machining, plastics, carpentry and joinery, art and computer courses and general studies	11,398,000	4,174,000
Footscray College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage II: Building for engineering, humanities and social science courses, library, student ser‑ vices and college administration..........	11,348,000	820,000
	Stage III: Building for applied science, mathematics, child care and applied art courses and refurbishment for business studies	4,630,000	2,350,000
Frankston College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage I: Building for fitting and machining, electrical and build‑ ing courses and reconstruction for classrooms and college administration	8,944,000	2,600,000
Gordon Technical College (Geelong)	Stage I: Buildings for electrical, art and design, hairdressing, science and child care courses, library and general classrooms	7,117,000	3,229,000
Knox College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Contruction of new college.........	12,986,000	4,411,000
Moorabbin College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	New and refurbished facilities for applied art and science, business studies, engineering, fitting and machining, metal fabrication, sheetmetal courses and general studies, staff and student services	11,899,000	1,707,000
Preston College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage III: Building for applied science and child care courses, general classrooms and student services	3,228,000	2,307,000
Shepparton College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Buildings for rural studies, electrical, building, metal fab‑ rication, fitting and machining and automobile courses	6,102,000	1,472,000
Wangaratta College of Technical and Further Education	Stage II: Buildings for business studies, science and art courses, library and student services	6,291,000	52,000
Warrnambool College of Technical and Further Education	New and refurbished facilities for applied science, art and design, building studies, business studies, electrical engineering courses and general studies	2,313,000	441,000
Wimmera College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Provision of facilities for electrical, electronics and automotive courses at Horsham and agri‑ cultural and computing courses at Longerenong	4,075,000	960,000
Yallourn College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage II: Buildings for fitting and machining, electrical, instru‑ mentation,metal fabrication and building courses and refur‑ bishing of workshops for trade courses.....	5,854,000	1,250,000
	Stage III: New and refurbished facilities for automotive, applied art, business studies, middle‑level and computing courses and college administration	7,168,000	779,000
Total—Victoria			35,956,000
Queensland—
Bundaberg College of Tech‑ nical and Further Education	Buildings for auto‑electrical trades, arts and crafts, business and general studies and a library	4,850,000	3,201,000
Burdekin College of Technical and Further Education (Home Hill)	Stage I: Construction of multi‑purpose college	6,000,000	2,126,000
Central Highlands College of Technical and Further Education (Emerald)	Stage I: Construction of new college........	8,427,000	3,149,000
College of Hospitality and Tourism (South Brisbane)	Stage I: Building for school of catering and hospitality services	11,839,000	4,225,000
Ithaca College of Technical and Further Education (Grovely Centre)	Stage I: Buildings for horticultural courses....	3,561,000	1,416,000
Mackay College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Design of building for engineering and building studies	101,000	101,000
Mount Gravatt College of Technical and Further Education	Stages III and IV: Buildings for applied science, food courses, commercial studies, arts and crafts courses, library, student services and college admin‑ istration..................	10,310,000	483,000
Rockhampton College of Technical and Further Education	Building for business and general studies, hairdressing and catering and hospitality courses	7,244,000	1,682,000
South Brisbane College of Technical and Further Education	Design of building for electronics, communications and science courses, library, general classrooms and staff and student services	101,000	101,000
Townsville College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Stage II: Building for school of catering and hospitality services	4,801,000	3,880,000
	Design of building for engineering and building studies	301,000	301,000
Total—Queensland			20,665,000

Western Australia—
Albany Technical College	Stage VII: Building for catering trades and computer studies	2,522,000		258,000
Bunbury Technical College	Stage II: Buildings for catering trades and computer studies	2,039,000		362,000
	Building for classrooms and art studies	970,000		970,000
Fremantle Technical Col‑ lege	Stage II: Building for business studies, food technology, engineering and science courses	4,977,000		2,868,000
Leederville College of Tech‑ nical and Further Edu‑ cation	Design of new and refurbished facilities for architectural draft‑ ing, interior design, commercial studies and accounting courses, general classrooms, staff and student services	201,000		201,000
Midland Technical College	Replacement and additional fac‑ ilities for automotive and metal trades on a new site	7,469,000		3,702,000
Thornlie Technical College	Stage III: Building for hairdressing, commercial, accounting, man‑ agement and science courses..	3,351,000		392,000
	Stage IV: Buildings for library and student services	3,716,000		3,082,000
Total—Western Australia			11,835,000
South Australia—
Adelaide College of Technical and Further Education	Stage I: Building for hairdressing, business and commercial studies courses, staff and student service areas	10,647,000		6,169,000
	Stages II and III: Provision of accommodation for courses in business and general studies, library, college administration, adult literacy and Aboriginal education units, and the Open College of Education which comprises the Centre for Open Studies and the Centre for Resource Development	10,286,000		3,985,000
Elizabeth Community Col‑ lege	Stage IV: Building for classrooms and reconstruction of work‑ shops for building, engineering electrical and metal trades	4,668,000		2,732,000
Panorama Community Col‑ lege	Stage I: Buildings for classrooms, library and student services and reconstruction of workshops for engineering and metal trades	5,628,000		981,000
Total—South Australia			13,867,000

Tasmania—
Launceston College of Technical and Further Education (Alanvale cam‑ pus)	Stage II: Building for courses in metal fabrication	2,619,000		1,225,000
	Construction of student residence	1,351,000		319,000
	Design of building for automotive studies	101,000		101,000
Total—Tasmania				1,645,000
Northern Territory—
Community College of Cen‑ tral Australia	Food studies facility..........	1,029,000		694,000
Darwin Community College	Construction of student residences	1,783,000		850,000
	Construction of metal fabrication and welding workshop	3,377,000		480,000
Katherine Rural Education Centre	Stage II: Buildings for workshops, administration and student residences	1,774,000		1,617,000
Total—Northern Territory				3,641,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES			131,680,000

Schedule 8

Sections 15, 22 and 26

PART I—MAXIMUM GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR EXPENDITURE BY COLLEGES OF ADVANCED EDUCATION ON COLLEGE PURPOSES

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Grant in respect of	Grant in respect of	Grant in respect of
College of Advanced Education	1982	1983	1984
	$	$	$
New South Wales—
Armidale College of Advanced Education.....	4,889,000	5,158,000	5,474,000
Catholic College of Education Sydney Ltd....	6,428,000	6,871,000	7,378,000
Cumberland College of Health Sciences.....	7,209,000	7,660,000	8,380,500
Hawkesbury Agricultural College...........	6,707,000	6,986,000	7,705,000
Kuring‑gai College of Advanced Education........................	9,407,000	10,132,000	11,134,000
The Milperra College of Advanced Education..	3,179,000	nil	nil
Macarthur Institute of Higher Education......	nil	3,768,000	4,516,000
Mitchell College of Advanced Education......	11,008,000	11,693,000	12,859,000
Nepean College of Advanced Education.....	5,318,000	6,129,000	7,172,000
New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music	2,751,000	2,984,000	3,408,000
Newcastle College of Advanced Education....	10,186,000	10,223,000	10,993,000
Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education	3,934,000	4,319,000	4,997,000
Orange Agricultural College..............	1,879,000	1,988,000	2,243,000
Riverina College of Advanced Education.....	16,937,000	17,793,000	19,241,000
Sydney College of Advanced Education......	22,187,000	23,474,000	24,414,000
Sydney College of the Arts...............	4,199,000	4,566,000	4,882,000
The New South Wales Institute of Technology.	26,856,000	28,908,000	31,521,000
Wollongong Institute of Education..........	1,563,000	nil	nil
Total............................	144,637,000	152,652,000	166,317,500
Victoria—
Ballarat College of Advanced Education......	8,729,000	9,224,000	9,941,000
Bendigo College of Advanced Education.....	9,320,000	9,338,000	9,399,000
Chisholm Institute of Technology...........	21,151,000	22,259,000	24,779,000
Footscray Institute of Technology..........	10,410,000	12,221,000	14,798,500
Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education....	6,988,000	7,746,000	8,922,000
Hawthorn Institute of Education............	6,010,000	6,356,000	6,838,000
State College of Victoria, Institute of Catholic Education.....................	5,572,000	nil	nil
Institute of Catholic Education.............	nil	5,888,000	6,445,000
Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences.........	9,534,000	10,287,000	11,174,000
Phillip Institute of Technology.............	16,002,000	17,208,000	19,158,000
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Ltd..	41,131,000	44,160,000	48,206,000
State College of Victoria, Institute of Early Childhood Development............	3,137,000	nil	nil
Melbourne State College.................	14,459,000	nil	nil
Melbourne College of Advanced Education...	nil	18,247,000	18,473,000
Swinburne Limited.....................	19,010,000	21,205,000	23,705,000
Victorian College of the Arts..............	3,158,000	3,574,000	4,019,000
Victoria College.......................	24,187,000	24,258,000	26,248,000
Victorian College of Pharmacy Ltd..........	2,892,000	2,835,000	3,048,000
Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education.	4,533,000	4,824,000	5,477,000
Total............................	206,223,000	219,630,000	240,630,500
Queensland—
Brisbane College of Advanced Education.....	27,139,000	28,575,000	30,914,000
Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education..	8,851,000	9,693,000	10,328,000
Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education	13,162,000	14,186,000	15,366,000
Queensland Agricultural College...........	6,839,000	7,378,000	7,944,000
Queensland Conservatorium of Music.......	1,681,000	1,817,000	1,963,000
Queensland Institute of Technology.........	26,785,000	29,636,000	32,240,000
Total............................	84,457,000	91,285,000	98,755,000
Western Australia—
Western Australian College of Advanced Education.......................	26,382,000	28,081,000	30,550,000
Western Australian Institute of Technology....	43,494,000	46,255,000	49,437,000
Total............................	69,876,000	74,336,000	79,987,000
South Australia—
Roseworthy Agricultural College...........	3,469,000	3,785,000	4,031,000
South Australian College of Advanced Education.........................	34,937,000	36,204,000	38,150,000
South Australian Institute of Technology.....	21,590,000	23,785,000	25,908,000
Total............................	59,996,000	63,774,000	68,089,000
Tasmania—
Tasmanian College of Advanced Education...	8,964,000	9,760,000	10,715,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES...............	574,153,000	611,437,000	664,494,000

PART II—MAXIMUM GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR EXPENDITURE BY STATES
ON ADVANCED EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Grant in respect of	Grant in respect of	Grant in respect of
State	1982	1983	1984
	$	$	$
New South Wales	3,172,000	3,439,000	3,802,000
Victoria	1,372,000	1,464,000	1,583,000
Queensland	1,783,000	2,069,000	2,586,000

PART III—UNALLOCATED MONEYS FOR EXPENDITURE BY STATES
ON ADVANCED EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Grant in respect of	Grant in respect of	Grant in respect of
State	1982	1983	1984
	$	$	$
New South Wales...........................	nil	nil	143,000
Victoria...................................	nil	nil	nil
Queensland................................	nil	110,000	59,000
Western Australia............................	nil	nil	nil
South Australia.............................	nil	nil	nil
Tasmania.................................	nil	nil	nil
TOTAL—ALL STATES...................	nil	110,000	202,000

Schedule 9—Grants for Equipment for Colleges of Advanced Education

Section 19

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Grant in	Grant in	Grant in
	respect of	respect of	respect of
State	1982	1983	1984
	$	$	$
New South Wales...........	4,900,000	4,445,000	5,532,000
Victoria..................	7,640,000	7,200,000	8,591,000
Queensland...............	2,920,000	2,775,000	3,401,000
Western Australia...........	2,430,000	2,980,000	2,714,000
South Australia.............	2,055,000	3,235,000	2,863,000
Tasmania.................	245,000	255,000	310,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES.	20,190,000	20,890,000	23,411,000

Schedule 10—Grants for Expenditure by the Northern Territory on Advanced Education Purposes

Section 22

Column1	Column 2	Column 3
Grant in respect of 1982	Grant in respect of 1983	Grant in respect of 1984
$	$	$
4,064,000	4,606,000	5,383,500

Schedule 11—General Purpose Recurrent Grants in Connection with Technical and Further Education

Section 28

Column 1	Column 2		Column 3	Column 4
	Amount of grant		Amount of grant	Amount of grant
	in respect of		in respect of	in respect of
State	1982		1983	1984
	$		$	$
New South Wales...................	23,093,000		28,719,000	31,356,000
Victoria..........................	16,047,000		20,256,000	22,485,000
Queensland.......................	5,710,000		7,118,000	8,687,000
Western Australia...................	6,256,000		7,585,000	8,396,000
South Australia.....................	5,641,000		6,730,000	7,354,000
Tasmania.........................	1,995,000		2,449,000	2,718,000
Northern Territory...................	658,000		851,000	953,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES...........		59,400,000	73,708,000	81,949,000

Schedule 12

Section 29

PART I—GRANTS FOR STAFF TRAINING AND DATA COLLECTION AND
PROCESSING IN CONNECTION WITH TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION
IN RESPECT OF 1982

Column 1	Column 2		Column 3	Column 4
			Maximum	Aggregate
	Maximum grant for staff		grant for data collection and	amount in respect of
State	training		processing	1982
	$		$	$
New South Wales......................	1,560,000		269,000	1,829,000
Victoria.............................	1,140,000		200,000	1,340,000
Queensland..........................	640,000		146,000	786,000
South Australia........................	500,000		110,000	610,000
Western Australia......................	500,000		100,000	600,000
Tasmania............................	200,000		50,000	250,000
Northern Territory......................	50,000		30,000	80,000
Total—All States..................		4,590,000	905,000	5,495,000

PART II—UNALLOCATED GRANT FOR STAFF TRAINING IN RESPECT OF 1982

Total unallocated grant—$60,000

PART III—GRANTS FOR STAFF TRAINING AND DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING IN CONNECTION WITH TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2		Column 3	Column 4
			Maximum
	Maximum		grant for	Aggregate
	grant for		data	amount in
	staff		collection and	respect of
State	training		processing	1983
	$		$	$
New South Wales.........................	2,061,000		299,000	2,360,000
Victoria................................	1,370,000		232,000	1,602,000
Queensland.............................	691,000		155,000	846,000
South Australia..........................	595,000		126,000	721,000
Western Australia.........................	595,000		113,000	708,000
Tasmania..............................	238,000		54,000	292,000
Northern Territory.........................		60,000	32,000	92,000
Total—All States.....................	5,610,000		1,011,000	6,621,000

PART IV—UNALLOCATED GRANT FOR STAFF TRAINING IN RESPECT OF 1983

TOTAL UNALLOCATED GRANT—$83,000

PART V—GRANTS FOR STAFF TRAINING, DATA COLLECTION AND
PROCESSING AND ADULT MIGRANT EDUCATION IN CONNECTION
WITH TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2		Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
			Maximum grant	Maximum grant	Aggregate
	Maximum grant		for data	for adult	amount in
	for staff		collection and	migrant	respect of
State	training		processing	education	1984
	$		$	$	$
New South Wales....	2,295,000		231,000	1,639,000	4,165,000
Victoria............	1,467,000		248,000	1,097,000	2,812,000
Queensland........	739,000		221,000	280,000	1,240,000
Western Australia....	639,000		121,000	285,000	1,045,000
South Australia......	639,000		160,000	195,000	994,000
Tasmania..........	254,000		61,000	36,000	351,000
Northern Territory....	66,000		38,000	50,000	154,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES		6,099,000	1,080,000	3,582,000	10,761,000

PART VI—UNALLOCATED GRANT FOR STAFF TRAINING IN

RESPECT OF 1984

Total unallocated grant—$100,000

PART VII—UNALLOCATED GRANT FOR DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING IN

RESPECT OF 1984

Total unallocated grant—$133,000

PART VIII—UNALLOCATED GRANT FOR ADULT MIGRANT EDUCATION
IN RESPECT OF 1984

Total unallocated grant—$47,000

Schedule 13

Section 31

PART I—OTHER RECURRENT GRANTS IN CONNECTION WITH TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION IN RESPECT OF 1982

Column 1	Column 2
State	Maximum grant in respect of 1982
		$
New South Wales.............................................		7,082,000
Victoria.....................................................		4,691,000
Queensland.................................................		2,499,000
South Australia...............................................		1,705,000
Western Australia.............................................		1,835,000
Tasmania...................................................		642,000
Northern Territory.............................................			191,000
Total—All States..........................................		18,645,000

PART II—UNALLOCATED OTHER RECURRENT GRANT IN RESPECT OF 1982

Total unallocated grant—$100,000

PART III—OTHER RECURRENT GRANTS IN CONNECTION WITH TECHNICAL AND

FURTHER EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2
	Maximum grant
	in respect of
State	1983
		$
New South Wales.............................................		7,524,000
Victoria.....................................................		5,432,000
Queensland.................................................		2,629,000
South Australia...............................................		1,851,000
Western Australia.............................................		1,969,000
Tasmania...................................................		644,000
Northern Territory.............................................			210,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES.....................................		20,259,000

PART IV—UNALLOCATED OTHER RECURRENT GRANT IN RESPECT OF 1983

TOTAL UNALLOCATED GRANT—$3,533,000

PART V—OTHER RECURRENT GRANTS IN CONNECTION WITH TECHNICAL
AND FURTHER EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2
	Maximum grant
	in respect of
State	1984
		$
New South Wales.............................................		7,938,000
Victoria.....................................................		5,977,000
Queensland.................................................		2,813,000
Western Australia.............................................		2,018,000
South Australia...............................................		1,834,000
Tasmania...................................................		583,000
Northern Territory.............................................			202,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES.....................................		21,365,000

PART VI—UNALLOCATED OTHER RECURRENT GRANT IN RESPECT OF 1984

Total unallocated grant—$165,000

Schedule 14—Grants for Programs of Non‑Government Adult Education related to Technical and Further Education

Section 32

Column 1	Column 2		Column 3	Column 4
	Maximum grant		Maximum grant	Maximum grant
	in respect of		in respect of	in respect of
State	1982		1983	1984
	$		$	$
New South Wales................	332,000		399,000	425,000
Victoria.......................	249,000		298,000	319,000
Queensland....................	145,000		177,000	189,000
Western Australia................	55,000		83,000	100,000
South Australia..................	85,000		101,000	107,000
Tasmania......................	34,000		38,000	40,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES............		900,000	1,096,000	1,180,000

Schedule 15—Special Grants for Equipment for Technical and Further Education Institutions

Section 33

Column 1	Column 2			Column 3	Column 4
	Grant in		Grant in		Grant in
	respect of		respect of		respect of
State	1982		1983		1984
	$		$		$
New South Wales.......................	3,880,000		4,026,000		4,661,000
Victoria...............................	2,760,000		2,842,000		3,310,000
Queensland...........................	1,040,000		1,091,000		1,385,000
Western Australia.......................	1,020,000		1,030,000		1,202,000
South Australia.........................	940,000		927,000		1,031,000
Tasmania.............................	360,000		381,000		424,000
Northern Territory.......................		100,000	103,000		127,000
TOTAL—ALL STATES...................	10,100,000		10,400,000		12,140,000

Schedule 16—Maximum Monthly Capitation Amount of Commonwealth Assistance to Non‑government Business Colleges

Section 37

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Maximum capitation amount in respect of	Maximum capitation amount in respect of	Maximum capitation amount in respect of
Name of month	1982	1983	1984
	$	$	$
January 1982 to December 1983...	73.33	87.54	—
January 1984 to March 1984.....	—	—	91.89
April 1984 to June 1984........	—	—	94.42
July 1984 to September 1984.....	—	—	95.05
October 1984 to December 1984..	—	—	95.05

Schedule 17

Sections 39 and 51

PART I—PROPOSED CONSOLIDATIONS OF COLLEGES OF ADVANCED EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2
Proposed reconstituted college of advanced education	Existing colleges of advanced education
New South Wales—
Catholic College of Education Sydney......	Polding College
	Catholic Teachers College
	Mount Saint Mary College of Education
Riverina College of Advanced Education....	Riverina College of Advanced Education
	Goulburn College of Advanced Education
Sydney College of Advanced Education....	Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education
	Nursery School Teachers College
	Sydney Kindergarten Teachers College
	Sydney Teachers College
	The Guild Teachers College
Victoria—
Chisholm Institute of Technology.........	Caulfield Institute of Technology
	State College of Victoria, Frankston
Melbourne State College/Early Childhood Development....	Melbourne State College State College of Victoria, Institute of Early Childhood Development
Phillip Institute of Technology............	Preston Institute of Technology
	State College of Victoria, Coburg
Victoria College......................	State College of Victoria, Burwood
	State College of Victoria, Toorak
	State College of Victoria, Rusden
	Prahran College of Advanced Education
Queensland—
Brisbane College of Advanced Education...	Brisbane Kindergarten Teachers College
	Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education
	Mount Gravatt College of Advanced Education
	North Brisbane College of Advanced Education
South Australia—
South Australian College of Advanced Education........	Adelaide College of the Arts and Education Hartley College of Advanced Education
	Salisbury College of Advanced Education
	Sturt College of Advanced Education
Western Australia—
Western Australian College of Advanced Education.......	Churchlands College
	Claremont Teachers College
	Mount Lawley College
	Nedlands College

PART II—PROPOSED CONSOLIDATIONS OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES OF
ADVANCED EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2
University	College of Advanced Education
University of New England	Armidale College of Advanced Education
University of Newcastle	Newcastle College of Advanced Education
University of Wollongong	Wollongong Institute of Education
James Cook University of North Queensland	Townsville College of Advanced Education

Schedule 18

Section 39A

PART I

Armidale College of Advanced Education

Hawthorn Institute of Education

Newcastle College of Advanced Education

The Milperra College of Advanced Education

The University of New England

The University of Newcastle

PART II

Orange Agricultural College

Notes to the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1981

Note 1

The States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1981 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 167, 1981 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 1981	167, 1981	26 Nov 1981	26 Nov 1981
States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Legislation Amendment Act 1982	27, 1982	17 May 1982	Ss. 5 and 6: 26 Nov 1981 Remainder: Royal Assent	Ss. 10‑12
States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Act 1982	131, 1982	14 Dec 1982	14 Dec 1982	Ss. 2(2), 3(2), 33, 35 and 36
States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Act 1983	120, 1983	21 Dec 1983	21 Dec 1983	S. 18(2)
as amended by
States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Act 1984	50, 1984	25 June 1984	(see 50, 1984 below)	—
States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Act 1984	50, 1984	25 June 1984	Part III (ss. 15‑18): 21 Dec 1983 Remainder: Royal Assent	S. 14
States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1984	127, 1984	25 Oct 1984	25 Oct 1984	S. 64
Statute Law Revision Act 1996	43, 1996	25 Oct 1996	Schedule 4 (items 139, 140): Royal Assent (a)	—
Statute Stocktake Act 1999	118, 1999	22 Sept 1999	22 Sept 1999	—

(a) The States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1981 was amended by Schedule 4 (items 139, 140) only of the Statute Law Revision Act 1996, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), this Act commences 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. No. 131, 1982; No. 43, 1996
S. 4 ....................	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983
S. 9 ....................	am. No. 27, 1982; No. 120, 1983
S. 10 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983
S. 11 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
S. 13A ..................	ad. No. 131, 1982
S. 13B ..................	ad. No. 120, 1983
S. 14 ...................	am. No. 27, 1982
S. 15 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982
S. 17 ...................	am. No. 27, 1982
S. 19 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983
S. 20 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
S. 21A ..................	ad. No. 131, 1982
S. 21B ..................	ad. No. 120, 1983
S. 23 ...................	am. Nos. 27 and 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
Ss. 24, 25 ...............	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; No. 50, 1984
S. 26 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982
S. 27 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983
S. 28 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982
Ss. 29‑31 .........	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983
Ss. 32, 33 ...............	am. No. 131, 1982
S. 34A ..................	ad. No. 131, 1982
	am. No. 120, 1983
S. 34B ..................	ad. No. 120, 1983
S. 38 ...................	am. Nos. 27 and 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
S. 38A ..................	ad. No. 131, 1982
	am. No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
S. 38B ..................	ad. No. 120, 1983
	am. Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
S. 39 ...................	rep. No. 120, 1983
S. 39A ..................	ad. No. 131, 1982
	rep. No. 120, 1983
S. 40 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983
S. 41 ...................	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; No. 50, 1984
S. 41A ..................	ad. No. 120, 1983
Ss. 46‑49 .........	am. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983
S. 51 ...................	rep. No. 120, 1983
Part VII ................. (ss. 53‑61)	rep. No. 131, 1982
Ss. 53‑61 .........	rep. No. 131, 1982
Part VIII ................. (ss. 62, 63)	rep. No. 131, 1982
Ss. 62, 63 ...............	rep. No. 131, 1982
Schedule 1 ..............	rs. Nos. 27 and 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
Schedule 2 ..............	rs. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
Schedule 2A .............	rs. Nos. 27 and 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
Schedule 3 ..............	rs. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
Schedule 4 ..............	rs. Nos. 27 and 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; No. 50, 1984
Schedule 6 ..............	rs. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
Schedule 7 ..............	am. No. 27, 1982
Schedule 7A .............	ad. No. 131, 1982
	am. No. 120, 1983
Schedule 7B .............	ad. No. 120, 1983
	rs. Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
Schedule 8 ..............	rs. Nos. 27 and 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983
	am. No. 50, 1984
	rs. No. 127, 1984
Schedule 9 ..............	rs. Nos. 27 and 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; No. 50, 1984
Schedule 10 .............	rs. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; Nos. 50 and 127, 1984
Schedule 11 .............	rs. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; No. 50, 1984
Schedule 12 .............	rs. No. 131, 1982
	am. No. 120, 1983 (as am. by No. 50, 1984); No. 50, 1984
Schedule 13 .............	rs. No. 131, 1982
	am. No. 120, 1983; No. 50, 1984
Schedules 14‑16 ....	rs. No. 131, 1982; No. 120, 1983; No. 50, 1984
Schedule 17 .............	rs. No. 131, 1982
Schedule 18 .............	rep. No. 131, 1982
	ad. No. 131, 1982
Schedules 19‑22 ....	rep. No. 131, 1982

Legislation content

Part I—Preliminary

1 Short title [see Note 1]

2 Commencement [see Note 1]

3 Interpretation

4 Approval of, and directions relating to, building projects

5 New teaching developments

Part II—Universities

6 Interpretation

7 Grants for expenditure on university purposes

8 Special research grants

9 Research centres of excellence

10 Grants for equipment

11 Recurrent grants in respect of student residences and affiliated colleges

12 Recurrent grants in respect of teaching hospitals

13 Building projects

13A Building projects in respect of the year 1983 etc.

13B Building projects in respect of the year 1984

Part III—Advanced Education

14 Interpretation

15 Grants for expenditure by colleges of advanced education for college purposes

16 Grants for expenditure in connection with the provision of courses of advanced education in technical and further education institutions

17 Carry‑forward of amounts specified under Schedule 8

18 Variation of amounts specified in Schedule 8

19 Grants for equipment

20 Recurrent grants in respect of student residences and affiliated colleges

21 Building projects

21A Building projects in respect of the year 1983 etc.

21B Building projects in respect of the year 1984

22 Grants to Northern Territory for recurrent expenditure in respect of courses of advanced education etc.

23 Grants for courses of teacher education provided by non‑government teachers colleges

24 Grants for equipment for non‑government teachers colleges

25 Grants for minor building projects of non‑government teachers colleges

26 Further recurrent grants in relation to advanced education

Part IV—Technical and Further Education

27 Interpretation

28 Grants for recurrent expenditure

29 Proposals for expenditure on staff training, data collection and processing and advanced English language courses for migrants

30 Variations of amounts in Schedule 12

31 Other recurrent grants

32 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with programs of adult education provided by non‑government bodies

33 Special grants for equipment

34 Building projects

34A Building projects in respect of the year 1983

34B Building projects in respect of the year 1984

Part V—Non‑Government Business Colleges

35 Interpretation

36 Approvals by Minister in respect of a year to which this Act applies

37 Grants for approved courses provided by non‑government business colleges

Part VI—Miscellaneous

38 Grants for community language courses

38A Recurrent grants may be increased to assist institutions in meeting certain superannuation expenses

38B Recurrent grants may be increased to assist institutions to meet expenses due to increased enrolments in 1984

40 Conditions attaching to building grants

41 Variation of building grants in Schedule 7, 7A or 7B

41A Benefits of, and opportunities created by, grants to be equally available to male students and female students

42 Additional conditions etc.

43 Time and manner of payments

44 Delegation

45 Advances

46 Payments may be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or the Loan Fund

47 Authority to borrow

48 Application of moneys borrowed

49 Reimbursement of Consolidated Revenue Fund from Loan Fund

50 Appropriation

52 Report by Minister

Interactions

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