Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ACT 1988 - SECT 25A

             (1)  If, in respect of a year, the Minister is satisfied that a State has taken, or refused or failed to reverse, action having the effect, directly or indirectly, of preventing or hindering:

                     (a)  the imposition, by the governing body of an institution, of fees for an organisation that represents the interests generally of students at the institution; or

                     (b)  the collection of fees so imposed;

the Minister may authorise payment to that institution in respect of that year for that organisation of such an amount by way of financial assistance as the Minister determines to be appropriate.

             (2)  The total of the amounts determined by the Minister in subsection (1) for payment to an institution for an organisation in respect of a year must not exceed an amount that the Minister has determined would have been imposed, or imposed and collected, by that institution for that organisation in respect of that year were it not for that action of the State, or that refusal or failure by the State to reverse action already taken.

             (3)  Financial assistance is granted to an institution for an organisation under subsection (1) in respect of a year on the conditions that:

                     (a)  the institution will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the student organisation concerned without undue delay; and

                     (b)  the institution will give to the Minister, not later than 30 June next following that year, a statement by a qualified auditor, in an appropriate form, as to the amounts so paid to the organisation.