Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1978 No. 188, 1978 - SECT 19

19. (1) A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the
Minister, proposals for the undertaking, by colleges of advanced education
situated in that State, of special projects relating to the training of
technical and further education teachers.

(2) The Minister may approve a proposal submitted to him under sub-section (1)
in relation to a college of advanced education and where he does so, he shall
approve an amount as the amount of approved expenditure on the proposal in
respect of the year 1979.

(3) The Minister may vary or revoke an approval given by him under sub-section
(2), and, if he varies the amount of the approved expenditure on a proposal in
respect of the year 1979, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this
sub-section), the amount as so varied shall be deemed to have been, as from
the date on which the proposal was approved under sub-section (2), the amount
of the approved expenditure on the proposal in respect of the year 1979.

(4) Nothing in sub-section (3) shall be taken to authorize the Minister to
vary or revoke an approval if that variation or revocation would result in a
State becoming liable to repay an amount to the Commonwealth under this Act.

(5) In relation to each college of advanced education in respect of which a
proposal has been approved under sub-section (2), there is payable to the
State in which that college is situated, by way of financial assistance to the
State in relation to expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the college or
the body administering the college in connection with that proposal in respect
of the year 1979, an amount equal to the amount of approved expenditure on the
proposal in respect of the year 1979.

(6) The aggregate of the amounts approved by the Minister under sub-section
(2) as amounts of approved expenditure on proposals in respect of the year
1979 shall not exceed $777,000.

(7) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation
to approved proposals in respect of a college of advanced education on the
conditions that-

   (a)  the State will, without undue delay, pay to the college each amount
        paid to it under this section in relation to those proposals;

   (b)  the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the
        college in connection with those proposals, being amounts expended
        before 1 January 1980 or expended on or after that date in respect of
        commitments entered into before that date, is not less than the sum of
        the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this
        section in relation to the college; and

   (c)  the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than
        30 September 1980, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance
        with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure of the
        college in connection with those proposals, being expenditure that
        occurred before 1 January 1980 or that occurred on or after that date
        in respect of commitments entered into before that date.