Universities (Financial Assistance)

No. 7 of 1969

An Act to amend section 11 of the Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1966-1968.

[Assented to 8 April 1969]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1969.

(2.) The Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1966–1968, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1966–1969.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Recurrent grants in respect of teaching hospitals.

3. Section 11 of the Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1966–1968 is amended—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-section (2.), after the words “teaching hospitals”, the words “incurred in that year”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-section (3.) the following sub-section:—

“(3a.) Where the Minister is satisfied that a State contribution paid after the expiration of a year to which this Act applies related to the appropriate costs of a teaching hospital of a University incurred in that year, he may, in his discretion and with the approval of the State, direct that, for the purposes of this section, that contribution shall be treated as having been paid during that year.”.