Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1983 No. 120, 1983 - SECT 22

22. After section 38A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Recurrent grants may be increased to assist institutions in meeting expenses
due to increased enrolments in 1984

''38B. (1) Where, after receiving advice from the Commission, the Minister is
satisfied that a university or college of advanced education has incurred, or
will incur, in respect of the year 1984, additional expenditure by reason of
the increased numbers of students enrolling at the university or college of
advanced education or by reason of special measures to encourage increased
numbers of students, the Minister may determine an amount of additional
financial assistance that is to be payable in relation to that university or
that college of advanced education and, upon the making of that determination,
this Act has effect as if-

   (a)  in a case where the amount is determined in relation to a
        university-the amount specified opposite to the name of that
        university in the Column of Schedule 1 that relates to that year had
        been increased (as from 1 January in that year) by the amount so
        determined; or

   (b)  in a case where the amount is determined in relation to a college of
        advanced education-the amount specified opposite to the name of that
        college in the Column of Part I of Schedule 8 that relates to that
        year had been increased (as from 1 January in that year) by the amount
        so determined.

''(2) The aggregate of the amounts determined under sub-section (1) in
relation to universities and colleges of advanced education shall not exceed
$10,470,000.

''(3) As soon as practicable after the Minister has made a determination under
sub-section (1), the Minister shall cause a statement setting out particulars
of the determination to be laid before each House of the Parliament.''.