Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TERTIARY EDUCATION COMMISSION ACT 1977 No. 25 of 1977 - SECT 4

4. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

''acting member'', in relation to a Council, means a person acting as a member
of that Council;

''Chairman'' means the Chairman of the Commission;

''college of advanced education'' means, subject to the regulations, an
institution specified in Schedule 2;

''Commission'' means the Tertiary Education Commission established by this
Act;

''Commissioner'' means the Chairman or another Commissioner holding office
under section 10;

''Council'' means the Universities Council, the Advanced Education Council or
the Technical and Further Education Council established by this Act;

''financial assistance'', in relation to a tertiary institution, includes
assistance by way of expenditure of moneys by the Government of the
Commonwealth for the purposes of the institution;

''full-time Commissioner'' means a Commissioner appointed as a full-time
Commissioner;

''member'', in relation to a Council, means a member of that Council other
than the Chairman of that Council;

''part-time Commissioner'' means a Commissioner appointed as a part-time
Commissioner;

''prescribed Commonwealth institution'' means an institution established, or
proposed to be established, by the Commonwealth for the provision of tertiary
education and declared by regulations to be a prescribed Commonwealth
institution for the purposes of this Act;

''school'' has the same meaning as in the Schools Commission Act 1973;

''technical and further education'' means education provided by way of a
course of instruction or training that is, or that is preparatory to, a course
of a kind relevant to a trade, technical or other skilled occupation or that
otherwise meets educational needs, not being-

   (a)  education provided at a university or at a prescribed Commonwealth
        institution;

   (b)  education provided at a college of advanced education, other than
        education provided by way of a course declared by the Commission, by
        resolution, not to be a course of advanced education; or

   (c)  primary or secondary education provided by way of a full-time course
        in a school;

''technical and further education institution'' means-

   (a)  any institution (other than a college of advanced education or a
        school) that provides technical and further education, being-

        (i)    an institution in a State conducted by or on behalf of the
               government of the State; or

        (ii)   an institution in a Territory (other than an institution
               declared by the Minister not to be an institution to which this
               sub-paragraph applies) conducted by or on behalf of the
               government of the Commonwealth; or

   (b)  an institution, proposed institution, body, authority or
        instrumentality that, by virtue of a declaration under section 5, is a
        technical and further education institution for the purposes of this
        Act;

''tertiary institution'' means a university, a college of advanced education,
a technical and further education institution or a prescribed
Commonwealth institution;

''university'' means, subject to the regulations, an institution specified in
Schedule 1.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, a residential college or a proposed
residential college connected with a tertiary institution shall be deemed to
be part of that institution.