Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984 No. 127, 1984 - SECT 26

26. (1) At any time, and from time to time, during a year to which this Act
applies, but subject to sub-section (2) and to section 31, the Minister may,
after obtaining the advice of the Commission, direct that this Act has effect
as if all or any of the amounts specified in a relevant Schedule or in 2 or
more relevant Schedules in relation to that year were varied in accordance
with the direction, and, where the Minister gives a direction with respect to
the variation of any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act
(including this section), there shall be deemed to have been specified (as
from 1 January in that year) in that Schedule or those Schedules, as the case
requires, in substitution for those amounts, those amounts as so varied.

(2) A direction shall not be given under sub-section (1) during a year to
which this Act applies-

   (a)  in the case of a direction that relates to only one relevant
        Schedule-that would have the effect of varying the amounts in that
        Schedule in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the
        amounts specified in that Schedule in relation to that year is greater
        or less than the aggregate of those amounts before the giving of the
        direction; or

   (b)  in the case of a direction that relates to 2 or more relevant
        Schedules-that would have the effect of varying the amounts in those
        Schedules in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of
        the amounts specified in those Schedules in relation to that year is
        greater or less than the aggregate of those amounts before the giving
        of the direction.

(3) In this section, "relevant Schedule" means Schedule 1, 3, 7, 8 or 9.