Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1979 No. 185, 1979 - SECT 9

9. After section 11A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Building projects in respect of the year 1980, &c.
''11B. (1) Subject to sub-section (3), in relation to each building project
specified, in relation to a University, in column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7A,
there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, for the
purpose of financial assistance in relation to the building project in respect
of the year 1980, the amount specified in column 4 of that Part of that
Schedule in relation to the description of the project in column 2.

''(2) The Commission may approve a minor building project submitted to it by a
University as an approved minor building project of the University in respect
of the year 1980 and, where it does so, 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 University in respect of the
year 1980, there is payable to the State in which the University 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 a University specified in column 1 of Part II of Schedule 7A,
shall not exceed the amount specified in column 2 of that Part of that
Schedule in relation to the University.

''(5) The Commission may revoke or vary an approval given under sub-section
(2) 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, as from the date on which the project was so approved,
to have been the amount of the approved expenditure on the project in respect
of the year 1980.

''(6) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in
relation to an approved building project of a University on the conditions
that-

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

   (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 any previous Act that granted
        financial assistance to the States in relation to Universities;

   (c)  the State will ensure that information in respect of the project is
        furnished to the Commission in accordance with any relevant direction
        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 ensure that, if the Commission so requests a
        University, there will be furnished to the Commission by the
        University, 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 amounts expended in
        respect of work carried out before
1 January 1981 in connection with the approved project.

''(7) In sub-section (6), a reference to an approved building project of a
University shall be read as a reference to-

   (a)  a building project specified in column 2 of Part I of Schedule 7A in
        relation to the University; or

   (b)  a project approved by the Commission under sub-section (2) as an
        approved minor building project of the University in respect of the
        year 1980.''.