States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1973

No. 93 of 1973

AN ACT

To amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act (No. 3) 1972.

[Assented to 24 August 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1973.

(2) The States Grants (Advanced Education) Act (No. 3) 1972 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972–1973.

Commencement.

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

Grants for acquisition of library material.

3. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (2) the words “Five hundred thousand dollars” and substituting the words “Five million dollars”, and

(b) by omitting sub-sections (3), (4) and (6).

4. After section 7 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:—

Grants for assistance to students in need.

“7a. (1) There is payable to each State during the year 1973, for the purpose of financial assistance in connexion with students in need, the amount specified in the following table opposite to the name of that State:—

“(2) The financial assistance by way of payment of an amount to a State under sub-section (1) is granted on the conditions that—

(a) the State will ensure that the amount is applied towards assisting students in need; and

(b) the State will furnish annually to the Commission statistics and information in respect of the application, of the amount by the State.

“(3) In this section, ‘student in need’, in relation to a State, means a student who is enrolled at a college of advanced education situated in the State, is undertaking at the college a course of study approved by the Commission under section 4 and is determined by the college to be experiencing hardship by reason of his financial circumstances.

Grant for course in social work.

“7b. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), there is payable to the State of Tasmania during the year 1973, for the purpose of financial assistance, the sum of Forty thousand dollars.

“(2) The financial assistance to the State of Tasmania by way of payment of an amount under sub-section (1) is granted on the condition that that State will ensure that the amount of the payment is applied, in a manner approved by the Commission, towards the costs of planning, and other preparatory work in connexion with, the post-graduate course of study in social work that the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education proposes to offer in the year 1974 and subsequent years.”.