Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1978 No. 188, 1978 - SECT 25

25. (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 the year 1979, being a program by way of-

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

   (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.

(2) The Commission may approve a proposal submitted to it by a State under
sub-section (1) as an approved proposal for expenditure by the State in
respect of the year 1979, and may revoke or vary any such approval.

(3) There is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in
relation to 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 1979 in
connection with a program or programs referred to in paragraph (1) (a), the
amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 11 in relation to the State.

(4) 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 the year 1979 in
connection with a program or programs referred to in paragraph (1) (b), the
amount specified in Column 3 of Schedule 11 in relation to the State.

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under sub-section (3) 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 in accordance with
        approved proposals of expenditure by the State 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 that
        sub-section; and

   (b)  the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September
        1980, 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 connection with programs referred to
        in paragraph (1) (a).

(6) Financial assistance is granted to a State under sub-section (4) 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 in accordance with
        approved proposals of expenditure by the State 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 that
        sub-section; and

   (b)  the State will furnish to the Commission, not later than 30 September
        1980, 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 connection with programs referred to
        in paragraph (1) (b).