Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1989 No. 13, 1989 - SECT 9

9. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may authorise the payment under
this section to a State in respect of which an arrangement is in force under
section 7, for the purposes of financial assistance to the State in relation
to recurrent expenditure in connection with the provision of
technical and further education in the State in respect of the year 1989, of
such amount as the Minister determines.

(2) The total of the amounts determined by the Minister under subsection (1)
shall not exceed $120,434,000.

(3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) on the
conditions that:

   (a)  the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts spent by the State
        and by instrumentalities of the State in the year 1989 in relation to
        recurrent expenditure in connection with the provision of
        technical and further education in the State is not less than the sum
        of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under
        subsection (1);

   (b)  the State will ensure that each body providing technical and further
        education in the State does not charge any student fees in respect of
        the year 1989 or any part of that year except as provided by section
        8;

   (c)  the State will give to the Minister, not later than 30 September 1990,
        a statement by a qualified auditor, in the approved form, as to the
        amounts spent as described in paragraph (a); and

   (d)  the State will cause to be given to the Minister, not later than such
        date as the Minister specifies, such statistical and other information
        as the Minister requires in respect of the provision of
        technical and further education in the State during that year.