Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984 No. 127, 1984 - SECT 35

35. (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 36, 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 the
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 that would have the effect of varying the amounts in a
relevant Schedule or the relevant Schedules in such a way that, after the
variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified in that Schedule or those
Schedules, as the case requires, in relation to that year is greater or less
than the aggregate of those amounts before the giving of the direction.

(3) At any time, and from time to time, during a year to which this Act
applies, but subject to sub-section (4) and to section 36, 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 Schedule 17 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, in
substitution for those amounts, those amounts as so varied.

(4) A direction shall not be given under sub-section (3) during a year to
which this Act applies that would have the effect of varying the amounts in
Schedule 17 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.
(5) In this section "relevant Schedule" means Schedule 15 or 16.