Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1987 No. 123, 1987 - SECT 12

12. (1) The Minister may approve a proposal for expenditure by a prescribed
institution on an Aboriginal participation project as a proposal deserving
financial assistance under this section in respect of the year 1988 subject to
such conditions as the Minister determines.

(2) Where the Minister approves a proposal for expenditure by a prescribed
institution, the Minister shall determine an amount, not exceeding the
estimated expenditure of the proposal, as the amount of the approved
expenditure in relation to the proposal and, as from 1 January 1988, the
amount specified in Schedule 1, 2, 5, 6 or 7, as the case requires, in
relation to the institution, shall be deemed to be increased by the amount of
the approved expenditure.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), there is payable to the Northern Territory such
amount as the Minister determines, for the purposes of financial assistance in
relation to expenditure by the Northern Territory and instrumentalities of the
Northern Territory in respect of the year 1988 on a project designed to
promote the participation of Aboriginals in higher education at the
Northern Territory tertiary education institution reduced by the amount
calculated under section 6 in relation to the institution.

(4) Financial assistance is granted to the Northern Territory under subsection
(3) in relation to the Northern Territory tertiary education institution on
the conditions that:

   (a)  the Northern Territory will ensure that the sum of the amounts
        expended in the year 1988 by the Northern Territory and
        instrumentalities of the Northern Territory, on a project designed to
        promote the participation of Aboriginals at the institution is not
        less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the
        Northern Territory under this section;

   (b)  the State will ensure that the institution does not charge any student
        fees in respect of that year or a part of that year;

   (c)  the State will ensure that the institution imposes in respect of the
        year 1988, an amount of charge as provided by section 8 in respect of
        each student undertaking a course of advanced education;

   (d)  the Northern Territory will furnish to the Minister, not later than 30
        September 1989, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with
        the approved form, as to the amounts expended as described in
        paragraph (a); and

   (e)  the Northern Territory will furnish to the Minister, not later than
        such date as the Minister specifies, such statistical and other
        information as the Minister requires in respect of the provision by
        the Northern Territory and instrumentalities of the Northern Territory
        of courses of advanced education at the institution in that year.

(5) The aggregate of the amounts determined under subsections (2) and (3)
shall not exceed $8,730,000.

(6) In this section:

"Aboriginal participation project" means a project designed to promote the
participation of Aboriginals in higher education in a prescribed institution
or prescribed institutions;

"prescribed institution" means:

   (a)  a university in a State;

   (b)  a college of advanced education in a State;

   (c)  an institute of tertiary education in a State at which courses of
        advanced education are provided;

   (d)  a technical and further education institution in a State at which
        courses of advanced education are provided;

   (e)  a non-government teachers college; or

   (f)  the Northern Territory tertiary education institution.