Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 158 of 1992 - SECT 66

66. After section 25 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in
Part 2.2: Grants to support student organisations in certain circumstances

"25A.(1) If, in respect of a year, the Minister is satisfied that a State has
taken, or refused or failed to reverse, action having the effect, directly or
indirectly, of preventing or hindering:

   (a)  the imposition, by the governing body of an institution, of fees for
        an organisation that represents the interests generally of students at
        the institution; or

   (b)  the collection of fees so imposed; there is payable to that
        institution in respect of that year for that organisation such an
        amount by way of financial assistance as the Minister determines to be
        appropriate.

"(2) The total of the amounts determined by the Minister in subsection (1) for
payment to an institution for an organisation in respect of a year must not
exceed an amount that the Minister has determined would have been imposed, or
imposed and collected, by that institution for that organisation in respect of
that year were it not for that action of the State, or that refusal or failure
by the State to reverse action already taken.

"(3) Financial assistance is granted to an institution for an organisation
under subsection (1) in respect of a year on the conditions that:

   (a)  the institution will pay each amount of that financial assistance
        received by it to the student organisation concerned without undue
        delay; and

   (b)  the institution will give to the Minister, not later than 30 June next
        following that year, a statement by a qualified auditor, in an
        appropriate form, as to the amounts so paid to the organisation.".