STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1976 No. 15, 1976 - SECT 7 Reimbursement of money expended by States before commencing day on recurrent expenditure of colleges of advanced education.

STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1976 No. 15, 1976 - SECT 7

7. (1) Where the State Education Minister for a State requests the
Commonwealth Education Minister to authorize the reimbursement to the State-

   (a)  of an amount of moneys which, during the relevant period, had been
        paid by the State to a college of advanced education for the purpose
        of expenditure by way of recurrent expenditure of the college for
        college purposes in respect of the year 1976; or

   (b)  of an amount of moneys which, during the relevant period, had been
        applied by the State for the purpose of expenditure, by way of
        recurrent expenditure of the college for college purposes, in respect
        of the year 1976, otherwise than out of financial assistance granted
        to the State under any other Act providing for the granting of
        financial assistance to the States in relation to colleges of advanced
        education, the Commonwealth Education Minister may, subject to
        section 8, authorize the payment to the State under this sub-section,
        by way of financial assistance to the State, of such amount as the
        Commonwealth Education Minister determines, being an amount that does
        not exceed the amount referred to in the request.

(2) The financial assistance to a State constituted by a payment or payments
of moneys under sub-section (1) (in this sub-section referred to as the
''relevant financial assistance'') in relation to an amount or amounts of
moneys paid to a college of advanced education for the purpose referred to in
paragraph (1) (a) is granted on the conditions-

   (a)  that the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later
        than 30 September 1977, a statement in writing signed by the
        Auditor-General of the State, or by a qualified accountant, to the
        effect that he has satisfied himself that an amount equal to the
        relevant financial assistance was applied in expenditure by way of
        recurrent expenditure of the college for college purposes in respect
        of the year 1976, otherwise than out of moneys paid to the college
        from financial assistance granted to the State under this Act or any
        other Act providing for the granting of financial assistance to the
        States in relation to colleges of advanced education; and

   (b)  that the State will ensure that no college of advanced education
        situated in the State charges fees in respect of the year 1976 or any
        part of that year.

(3) The financial assistance to a State constituted by a payment or payments
of moneys under sub-section (1) (in this sub-section referred to as the
''relevant financial assistance'') in relation to an amount or amounts of
moneys applied by the State for the purpose referred to in paragraph (1) (b)
in relation to a college of advanced education is granted on the conditions-

   (a)  that the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later
        than 30 September 1977, a statement in writing signed by the
        Auditor-General of the State, or by a qualified accountant, to the
        effect that he has satisfied himself that an amount equal to the
        relevant financial assistance was, during the relevant period, applied
        in expenditure by way of recurrent expenditure of the college for
        college purposes in respect of the year 1976 otherwise than out of
        financial assistance granted to the State under this Act or any other
        Act providing for the granting of financial assistance to the States
        in relation to colleges of advanced education; and

   (b)  that the State will ensure that no college of advanced education
        situated in the State charges fees in respect of the year 1976 or any
        part of that year.

(4) For the purposes of this section, an amount that was expended during the
relevant period by way of recurrent expenditure of a college of advanced
education in respect of the year 1976 shall be deemed to have been expended
for college purposes if it was expended-

   (a)  for the general teaching purposes of the college in connexion with
        courses of study of the college, being courses of study that were,
        after the commencing day, approved by the Commission under section 5;

   (b)  for tuition for any such courses of study; or

   (c)  for planning and other preparatory work in connexion with proposed
        courses of study, being proposed courses of study that were so
        approved by the Commission.