Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1978 No. 188, 1978 - SECT 10

10. (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 sub-section (1) in
relation to the 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 that 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 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, are-

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