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Skilling Australia's Workforce Act 2005
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C2014C00400 C05
01 July 2014
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23 August 2017
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Interpretation
4 Objects
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Part 2—Grants to States: capital expenditure and recurrent expenditure
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Division 1—General provisions
5 Minister may make determinations authorising payments
6 Allocation of financial assistance by Ministerial Council
7 Agreements with States in relation to vocational education and training a precondition for payment of financial assistance
8 Payments subject to conditions
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Division 2—Statutory conditions
9 Conditions of grants—general
10 Condition of grant—payments to be spent for vocational education and training
10A Condition of grant—skilling Indigenous Australians
11 Condition of grant—maximising choice for employers and new apprentices
12 Condition of grant—workplace reforms
13 Condition of grant—competence-based training
14 Condition of grant—increased utilisation of publicly funded training infrastructure
15 Condition of grant—payments for capital expenditure
16 Condition of grant—role of State Training Authorities
17 Condition of grant—providing advice about vocational education and training
18 Condition of grant—overseas students
19 Condition of grant—recreational pursuits
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Division 3—Conditions of the Skilling Australia’s Workforce Agreement
20 Matters to which conditions of the Skilling Australia’s Workforce Agreement must relate
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Division 4—Conditions of bilateral agreements
21 When an agreement complies with this Division
22 Certifying that payments duly spent or committed
23 Reports about financial expenditure
24 Reporting on performance
25 Conditions about reporting
26 Agreement may specify other conditions
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Part 3—Grants for strategic national initiatives
27 Minister may make determinations authorising payments
28 Allocation of financial assistance by Ministerial Council
29 Precondition of payments for strategic national initiatives
30 Conditions of payment
31 Application of this Part to notional payments
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Part 4—Repayments
32 Statutory condition or condition of agreement not fulfilled
33 Overpayments
34 Minister’s power if amount repayable
35 Amount payable to the Commonwealth is a debt
36 Determinations requiring repayments
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Part 5—Amounts of payments
37 Limit on payments
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Part 6—Miscellaneous
38 Minister may determine amounts and times of payment of financial assistance
39 Payment reduced for false or misleading statement
40 Appropriation
41 Authority to borrow
42 Determinations etc.
43 Delegation
44 Annual national report
45 Presentation of agreement to Parliament
46 Publication of agreement on internet
47 Regulations
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Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history
Endnote 5—Uncommenced amendments [none]
Endnote 6—Modifications [none]
Endnote 7—Misdescribed amendments [none]
Endnote 8—Miscellaneous [none]