Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1978 No. 188, 1978 - SECT 21

21. (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, in
respect of the year 1979 there is payable to the State in which the college is
situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building
project, 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 1979, 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 1979.

(3) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given by it under
sub-section (2) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a
project in respect of the year 1979, then, for the purposes of this Act
(including this sub-section and sub-section (4)), the amount as so varied
shall be deemed to have been, as from the date on which the project was
approved under sub-section (2), the amount of the approved expenditure on the
project in respect of the year 1979.

(4) Subject to section 22, where the Commission approves a minor building
project of a college of advanced education under sub-section (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 1979,
an amount equal to the approved expenditure on the project in respect of the
year 1979.

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation
to an approved building project of a college of advanced education on the
conditions that-

   (a)  the State will, without undue delay, pay to the college each amount
        paid to it under this section in relation to the project;

   (b)  the State will ensure that the amount expended in relation to work
        carried out before 1 January 1980 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 colleges of advanced
        education;

   (c)  the State will ensure that information in respect of the project is
        furnished to the Commission in accordance with any relevant direction
        given 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
        sub-section 4 (5);

   (e)  the State will, if the Commission so requests, cause to 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 1980, 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 1980 in connection with
        the approved project.

(6) In this section, a reference to an approved building project of a
college of advanced education shall be read as a reference to-

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

   (b)  a project approved by the Commission under sub-section (2) of this
        section as an approved minor building project of the college in
        respect of the year 1979.