Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TAFE ASSISTANCE) ACT 1989 No. 170, 1989 - SECT 15

15. (1) Financial assistance is granted to a State under section 14 in
relation to an approved capital expenditure proposal relating to a body
providing technical and further education on the following conditions:

   (a)  that the State, without undue delay:

        (i)    pays to the body each amount of the financial assistance
               received by the State; or

        (ii)   applies each amount of the financial assistance received by the
               State;

   (b)  that the State ensures that the total of:

        (i)    the amounts spent by the State and instrumentalities of the
               State in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1991 in
               relation to approved capital expenditure proposals that relate
               to buildings; and

        (ii)   the amounts spent by the State and instrumentalities of the
               State in relation to approved capital expenditure proposals
               that relate to equipment, being amounts spent before 1 January
               1991 or spent on or after that date in relation to commitments
               entered into before that date; is not less than the total of
               the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under
               section 14 in relation to all approved capital expenditure
               proposals in relation to the State;

   (c)  that the State ensures that each body providing technical and further
        education in the State does not charge any student fees in relation to
        1990 or any part of that year;

   (d)  that the State gives to the Minister, not later than 30 September
        1991, a statement by a qualified auditor, in the approved form, as to
        the amounts spent as mentioned in paragraph (b);

   (e)  that the State gives to the Minister, not later than the day specified
        by the Minister, the statistical and other information that the
        Minister requires in relation to the provision of
        technical and further education in the State in 1990.

(2) For the purposes of this section, where an amount has been spent in a
particular way, the amount is not to be treated as having been spent in that
way under the condition mentioned in paragraph (1) (b) if the amount has been
treated, or will be treated, by the State as having been spent in that way
under a condition subject to which financial assistance was granted to the
State under another Act relating to the funding of technical and further
education.