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STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1979 No. 185, 1979 - SECT 17

17. After section 18 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Grants for courses of teacher education provided by non- government teachers
colleges
''19. (1) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this
section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent
expenditure of a non-government teachers college in providing in that State,
in a year to which this section applies, courses of teacher education in
respect of that year, of such payments as the Minister approves.

''(2) The sum of the amounts payable to the States under sub-section (1) shall
not exceed-

   (a)  in respect of the year 1980-$1,238,000; and

   (b)  in respect of the year 1981-$1,300,000.

''(3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in
relation to a non-government teachers college, in respect of a year to which
this section applies, on the conditions that-

   (a)  subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to
        the approved authority of the college an amount equal to each amount
        paid to the State under this section in relation to the college;

   (b)  the State will not make a payment to the approved authority of the
        college under this section unless the approved authority, before or at
        the time of accepting the first payment under this section, has agreed
        or agrees with the State to be bound by the following conditions:

        (i)    the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the
               sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under
               this section in respect of that year is applied for the purpose
               of meeting recurrent expenditure incurred, in respect of
               that year, by the college in the provision in that year of
               courses of teacher education of that college;

        (ii)   the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the
               Commission not later than 30 September in the year next
               following the end of that year-

                (A)  a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect
                     that he has satisfied himself that the condition
                     specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and

                (B)  a statement, in writing, that contains such information
                     in respect of the recurrent expenditure of the college,
                     and such other financial statistical information in
                     respect of the college, as is required by the Minister to
                     be so furnished; and

        (iii)  if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified
               in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii), the approved authority will, if
               the Minister so determines, pay to the State such amount (not
               being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the
               approved authority under this section) as the Minister
               determines should be repaid by the approved authority; and

   (c)  if an amount that the approved authority of the college is liable to
        repay to a State under the condition referred to in sub-paragraph (b)
        (iii) is repaid by the approved authority to the State, or is
        recovered by the State from the approved authority, the State will pay
        to the Commonwealth an amount equal to that amount.

''(4) In this section-

'approved authority', in relation to a non-government teachers college, means
such person or body as the Minister declares, in writing, to be an approved
authority of that college for the purposes of this section;

'certificate by a qualified accountant' means a certificate signed by-

   (a)  a person who is registered as a company auditor or a public accountant
        under a law of a State or Territory;

   (b)  a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia or of
        the Australian Society of Accountants; or

   (c)  a person approved by the Minister as a qualified accountant for the
        purposes of this section;

'course of teacher education' means a course of advanced education that is
provided by way of professional training for persons intending to become
primary school teachers or secondary school teachers;

'non-government teachers college' means a teachers college in a State that is
not established by the government of the State or conducted by or on behalf of
the government of the State, but does not include a teachers college conducted
for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals;

'teachers college' means a college or similar institution, not being a college
of advanced education, whether incorporated or unincorporated, that provides
courses in teacher education;

'year to which this section applies' means the year 1980 or the year 1981.''. 


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