Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1987 No. 123, 1987 - SECT 17

17. (1) In relation to each university specified in Schedule 4, there is
payable to the relevant State, for the purpose of financial assistance in
respect of contributions by the university towards the appropriate costs, in
respect of the year 1988, of the teaching hospital or teaching hospitals of
the university, the amount specified in that Schedule in relation to the
university.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (1) in
relation to a university 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 the year 1988, 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 subsection (1)
        in relation to the university in respect of that year; and

   (c)  the State will ensure that the university furnishes to the Minister,
        not later than 30 September 1989, 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
        referred to in paragraph (b).
(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.