Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984 No. 127, 1984 - SECT 6

6. (1) There is payable to a State under this section, for the purposes of
financial assistance to the State in relation to recurrent expenditure in
connection with the provision, in respect of the year to which this Act
applies, of technical and further education at technical and further education
institutions situated in the State, the amount specified in Schedule 4 in
relation to that State and to that year.

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

   (a)  the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the
        State and by instrumentalities of the State, by way of
        recurrent expenditure in connection with the provision, in respect of
        that year, of technical and further education at
        technical and further education institutions situated in the State is
        not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to
        the State under sub-section (1) in respect of that year;

   (b)  the State will ensure that each technical and further education
        institution situated in the State does not charge any student fees in
        respect of that year or any part of that year;

   (c)  the State will furnish 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
        recurrent expenditure by the State and instrumentalities of the State
        in connection with the provision, in respect of that year, of
        technical and further education at technical and
        further education institutions situated in the State; and

   (d)  the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than
        such date as the Commission specifies, such statistical and other
        information as the Commission requires in respect of the provision of
        technical and further education in that State during that year.

(3) In this section, "year to which this Act applies" means the year 1985.