Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984 No. 127, 1984 - SECT 15

15. (1) In relation to each university specified in Column 1 of Schedule 6,
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, in respect of a year to which this Act applies,
of the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of the university, the amount
specified in that Schedule in relation to the university and to that year.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under sub-section (1) in
relation to the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of a university in
respect of a year to which this Act applies on the conditions that-

   (a)  the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received
        by it to the university without undue delay;

   (b)  the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the
        university in making contributions towards the appropriate costs, in
        respect of that year, of the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals
        of the university is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial
        assistance paid to the State under sub-section (1) in relation to the
        teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of the university in respect
        of that year; and

   (c)  the State will ensure that the university furnishes to the Commission,
        not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a
        statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with the
        approved form, as to the expenditure of the university in making
        contributions towards the appropriate costs, in respect of that year,
        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, means-

   (a)  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 the
        university, by students enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine, or School
        of Medicine, 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 connection with those parts of the
        hospital; and

   (b)  expenditure incurred in the purchase of books and periodicals for the
        medical library of the hospital.