Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1978 No. 188, 1978 - SECT 27

27. (1) A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the
Commission, a proposal for recurrent expenditure in connection with the
provision of technical and further education in that State, being a proposal
for expenditure in relation to-

   (a)  curriculum development;

   (b)  the assessment of community needs for technical and further education;

   (c)  the development of techniques for enabling a student to control the
        pace at which he makes progress in a course of study;

   (d)  the publicizing of technical and further education;

   (e)  the provision of training that is preparatory to, or supplementary to,
        a course of technical and further education;

   (f)  the provision of counselling services at technical and further
        education institutions;

   (g)  the provision, or improvement, of external study facilities;

   (h)  the provision in a technical and further education institution, for
        persons who are undertaking full-time primary or secondary education,
        of programs designed to introduce those persons to
        technical and further education;

        (i)    the taking of measures to increase the scope of courses of
               technical and further education;

   (j)  the taking of measures to improve safety, health and welfare at
        technical and further education institutions;

   (k)  the taking of measures to improve the planning of major building
        projects;

   (l)  the improvement of educational materials and resources;

   (m)  the provision of assistance towards the administrative costs of
        student residences; or

   (n)  the provision of assistance towards the operating costs of a system
        for the collection and processing of statistical or other material
        relating to technical and further education.

(2) For the purposes of this section, 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 specified in Column 1 of Schedule 12, for the
purpose of financial assistance in relation to recurrent expenditure incurred
or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of a State, in
accordance with an approved proposal or approved proposals for expenditure by
that State in respect of the year 1979, the amount specified in Column 2 of
that Schedule in relation to that State.

(4) 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 for expenditure by the State in respect of the year
        1979 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 recurrent expenditure by the State
        and by instrumentalities of the State in accordance with approved
        proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of the year 1979.