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1998-99
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Indigenous
Education (Supplementary Assistance) Amendment Bill
1999
No. ,
1999
(Education, Training and Youth
Affairs)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance) Act 1989 and the
Student Assistance Act 1973
ISBN: 0642 405476
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Indigenous Education
(Supplementary Assistance) Act 1989 and the Student Assistance Act
1973
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Indigenous Education (Supplementary
Assistance) Amendment Act 1999.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any
other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its
terms.
1 Section 3
Insert:
ABSTUDY approved course means a course that:
(a) is provided through a mixture of distance education and either or both
of the following:
(i) residential education;
(ii) face-to-face education; and
(b) is provided at a VET institution or higher education institution;
and
(c) is approved as a mixed mode away-from-base course under the ABSTUDY
Scheme.
2 Section 3
Insert:
higher education institution means an institution within the
meaning of section 4 of the Higher Education Funding Act 1988.
3 Section 3 (at the end of the definition of
permitted payment)
Add:
; but does not include a payment made under Division 3 of Part 2.
4 Subsection 9A(1)
Omit “either, or both,”, substitute “any one or
more”.
5 At the end of subsection
9A(1)
Add:
; (c) funding for an ABSTUDY approved course.
6 At the end of section 9A
Add:
(3) If the agreement provides for the payment of money for an ABSTUDY
approved course, the amount of the payment is worked out under Division
3.
7 At the end of Part 2
Add:
(1) The Minister may make an agreement with an education provider
authorising a payment to the provider of an amount for an ABSTUDY approved
course (the 2000 ABSTUDY approved course):
(a) that is run by the provider in the 2000 calendar year; and
(b) for which Indigenous students are enrolled.
(2) The amount of the payment must not exceed the amount worked out using
the formula:
where:
number of Indigenous students
means the number of Indigenous students enrolled for the 2000 ABSTUDY approved
course.
unit cost means the unit cost for the 2000 ABSTUDY approved
course (see subsections (3) and (4)).
(3) If funding was provided in the 1998 calendar year in respect of
Indigenous students enrolled for that year in ABSTUDY approved courses run by
the education provider, then the unit cost for the 2000 ABSTUDY
approved course is worked out using the formula:
where:
1998 funding means the amount of funding that
was provided in the 1998 calendar year in respect of Indigenous students
enrolled for that year in ABSTUDY approved courses run by the education
provider.
1998 number of Indigenous students means the number of
Indigenous students who were enrolled for the 1998 calendar year in ABSTUDY
approved courses run by the education provider.
1999 IF means the indexation factor that applies for the 1999
calendar year.
2000 IF means the indexation factor that applies for the 2000
calendar year.
(4) If:
(a) subsection (3) does not apply; or
(b) the 2000 ABSTUDY approved course was not an ABSTUDY approved course in
1998;
then the unit cost for the 2000 ABSTUDY approved course is
the median of the unit costs that are worked out under subsection (3).
(1) The indexation factor for a calendar year (the current
year) is worked out using the formula:
where:
index number, for a quarter, means the All Groups Consumer
Price Index number that is the weighted average of the 8 capital cities and is
published by the Australian Statistician for that quarter.
previous June quarter means the June quarter before the
recent June quarter.
recent June quarter means the June quarter in the year before
the current year.
(2) The indexation factor worked out under subsection (1) must be rounded
up or down to 3 places (rounding up in the case of exactly halfway
between).
(3) If at any time (whether before or after the commencement of this
section) the Australian Statistician has changed or changes the reference base
for the Consumer Price Index, then, for the purposes of applying this section
after the change, only index numbers published in terms of the new reference
base are to be used.
8 After section 11
Insert:
Payments made under Division 3 of Part 2 must be made out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.
9 At the end of section 13B
Add:
(8) $126,100,000 is appropriated out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund in
respect of the period that starts on 1 January 2000 and ends on 30 June 2001 for
the purpose of making permitted payments during that period.
10 Subsections 13C(1) and
(2)
Omit “or (7)”, substitute “, (7) or
(8)”.
1 At the end of paragraph
55A(1)(c)
Add “, other than in relation to the away-from-base element of that
Scheme for mixed mode study”.