Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1979 No. 185, 1979 - SECT 19

19. After section 21A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Building projects in respect of the year 1980, &c.
''21B. (1) In relation to the building projects specified in Column 2 of Part
III of Schedule 7A in relation to colleges of advanced education in a State,
in respect of the year 1980, there is payable to that State, for the purpose
of financial assistance in relation to those building projects, an amount
equal to the amount specified in Column 4 of that Part as the total amount for
the State.

''(2) The Commission may approve a minor building project submitted to it by a
State as an approved minor building project of a college of advanced education
in respect of the year 1980, and, if it approves such a project, it shall also
approve an amount, being an amount equal to the estimated cost of the project,
as the approved cost of the project and an amount as the amount of the
approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1980.

''(3) Subject to sub-section (4), where the Commission approves, under
sub-section (2), a minor building project of a college of advanced education
in respect of the year 1980, there is payable to the State in which the
college is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to
the project in respect of the year 1980, an amount equal to the amount of the
approved expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1980.

''(4) The total of the amounts payable to a State under sub-section (3), in
relation to minor building projects of colleges of advanced education situated
in that State that are approved under sub-section (2) shall not exceed the
amount specified in column 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7A in relation to that
State.

''(5) The Commission may approve an amount as the amount of the approved
expenditure in respect of the year 1980 on a design project of a college of
advanced education specified in Part V of Schedule 7A.

''(6) Subject to sub-section (7), where the Commission approves an amount as
the amount of the approved expenditure, in respect of the year 1980, on a
design project of a college of advanced education specified in Part V of
Schedule 7A, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated,
for the purposes of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect
of the year 1980, an amount equal to the amount of that approved expenditure.

''(7) The total of the amounts payable under sub-section (6) shall not exceed
the amount set out in Part V of Schedule 7A as the total of all grants payable
in respect of design projects specified in that Part.

''(8) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given under sub-section
(2) or (5) and, if it varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a
project in respect of the year 1980, then, for the purposes of this Act, the
amount as so varied shall be deemed-

   (a)  in the case of a project approved under sub-section (2)-as from the
        date on which the project was so approved; or

   (b)  in the case of a design project specified in Part V of Schedule 7A-as
        from the date on which an approval was given under sub-section (5) in
        respect of the project, to have been the amount of the approved
        expenditure on the project in respect of the year 1980.

''(9) Financial assistance is granted to a State under sub-section (1) in
relation to the building projects of colleges of advanced education situated
in that State, being building projects specified in column 2 of Part III of
Schedule 7A, on the conditions that-

   (a)  the State will, in respect of each amount of the financial assistance
        paid to it-

        (i)    pay that amount to a college of advanced education in respect
               of a building project of the college; or

        (ii)   pay amounts aggregating that amount to colleges of advanced
               education in respect of the building projects of those colleges
               according to the respective needs of those projects,

without undue delay;

   (b)  the State will ensure that, in respect of the year 1980, it pays to
        each college in respect of which such a project is specified, in
        relation to that project, an amount that does not exceed, or amounts
        that, in the aggregate, do not exceed, the amount specified in column
        4 of Part III of Schedule 7A in relation to that project;

   (c)  the State will ensure, in respect of each of those projects, that the
        amount expended in relation to the work carried out before 1 January
        1981 in relation to the project will be not less than the sum of-

        (i)    the amounts paid by the State to the college concerned in
               relation to the project under this section; and

        (ii)   the amounts (if any) paid to the State in relation to the
               project under section 21 or any previous Act that granted
               financial assistance to the States in relation to colleges of
               advanced education;

   (d)  the State will ensure that information in respect of each of those
        projects is furnished to the Commission in accordance with any
        relevant direction given under paragraph 4 (1) (d);

   (e)  the State will ensure that each of those projects will be carried out
        in accordance with the directions (if any) given by the Commission
        under sub-section 4 (5);

   (f)  the State will, if the Commission so requests, cause to be furnished
        to the Commission, as soon as practicable after such date as the
        Commission specifies, such particulars as are specified by the
        Commission concerning the progress or expected progress of the work or
        matter constituting each of those projects; and

   (g)  the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than
        30 September 1981, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance
        with a form approved by the Commission, as to the amounts expended in
        respect of work carried out before 1 January 1981 in connection with
        each of those projects.

''(10) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in
relation to an approved building project of a college of advanced education
referred to in sub-section (11) on the conditions that-

   (a)  the State will, without undue delay, pay to the college each amount
        paid to it under this section in relation to the project;

   (b)  the State will ensure that the amount expended in relation to work
        carried out before 1 January 1981 in connection with the project will
        be not less than the sum of the amounts paid to the State in relation
        to the project under this Act or under any previous Act that granted
        financial assistance to the States in relation to colleges of advanced
        education;

   (c)  the State will ensure that information in respect of the project is
        furnished to the Commission in accordance with any relevant direction
        given under paragraph 4 (1) (d);

   (d)  the State will ensure that the project will be carried out in
        accordance with the directions (if any) given by the Commission under
        sub-section 4 (5);

   (e)  the State will, if the Commission so requests, cause to be furnished
        to the Commission, as soon as practicable after such date as the
        Commission specifies, such particulars as are specified by the
        Commission concerning the progress or expected progress of the work or
        matter constituting the project; and

   (f)  the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than
        30 September 1981, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance
        with a form approved by the Commission, as to the amount expended in
        respect of work carried out before 1 January 1981 in connection with
        the approved project.

''(11) For the purposes of sub-section (10), a reference to an approved
building project of a college of advanced education is-

   (a)  a project approved by the Commission under sub-section (2) of this
        section as an approved minor building project of the college in
        respect of the year 1980; or

   (b)  a design project of a college of advanced education specified in Part
        V of Schedule 7A.''.