Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 62, 1988 - SECT 8

8. After section 15 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in
Division 1 of Part II: Recurrent grants may be increased to assist
institutions in meeting Second Tier Wage Case decisions

"15A. (1) The Minister may, on or before 30 June 1988, determine, for the
purposes of this section, that expenditure of a specified kind by prescribed
institutions, being expenditure incurred, or to be incurred, in giving effect
to:

   (a)  a decision of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission
        making a second tier adjustment of salaries and wages in accordance
        with the wage fixation principles set out by the Commission in its
        National Wage case decision of 10 March 1987; or

   (b)  a decision of a State Industrial Authority making a second tier
        adjustment of salaries and wages in accordance with wage fixation
        principles laid down by that Authority that are consistent with the
        wage fixation principles referred to in paragraph (a); shall be
        relevant second tier wage expenditure.

"(2) Where the Minister is satisfied that a prescribed institution has
incurred, or will incur, relevant second tier wage expenditure, the Minister
may, on or before 30 June 1988, determine an amount of additional financial
assistance payable in relation to the prescribed institution in respect of the
year 1988, and, subject to subsection (3), the amount specified in Schedule 1,
2, 5, 6 or 7 (as the case requires) in relation to the prescribed institution,
shall be deemed to be increased by the amount so determined.

"(3) The aggregate of the amounts determined under subsection (2) shall not
exceed $46,254,000.

"(4) In this section:
'prescribed institution' means:

   (a)  a university in a State;

   (b)  a college of advanced education in a State;

   (c)  an institute of tertiary education in a State at which courses of
        advanced education are provided;

   (d)  a technical and further education institution in a State at which
        courses of advanced education are provided; or

   (e)  a non-government teachers college;
'State Industrial Authority' has the same meaning as in the Conciliation and
Arbitration Act 1903.".