Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (UNIVERSITIES ASSISTANCE) ACT 1976 No. 129, 1976 - SECT 9

9. (1) In relation to each University specified in Column 1 of Schedule 7,
there is payable to the State in which the University is situated, for the
purpose of financial assistance in respect of contributions by the University
towards the appropriate costs of the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals
of the University, the amount specified in Column 2 of that Schedule in
relation to the University.

(2) The financial assistance to a State by way of payment of an amount under
sub-section (1) in relation to the teaching hospitals of a University is
granted on the conditions that-

   (a)  the State will, without undue delay, pay that amount to the
        University; and

   (b)  the State will ensure that the amount so paid to the University is
        applied by the University, without undue delay, in making
        contributions towards the appropriate costs of the teaching hospital
        or teaching hospitals of the University.

(3) In this section, ''appropriate costs'', in relation to a teaching hospital
of a University, are-

   (a)  the expenditure (other than expenditure on building projects or
        expenditure on the purchase of equipment) incurred by the hospital in
        relation to parts of the hospital used exclusively by students
        enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine, or School of Medicine, of that
        University and of any other University in relation to which that
        hospital is a teaching hospital and by their teachers and to
        facilities and equipment so used in connexion with those parts of the
        hospital; and

   (b)  the expenditure, up to an amount of $3,300, incurred in the purchase
        of books and periodicals for the medical library of the hospital.