Universities (Financial Assistance) (No. 2)
No. 91 of 1966
An Act relating to Financial Assistance to the States in connexion with Universities.
[Assented to 29 October 1966]
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 (No. 2) 1966.
(2.) The Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1963-1965 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Universities (Financial Assistance) Act 1963–1966.
Commencement.
2.—(1.) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2.) The amendments made by paragraph (a) of section 3, and by section 6, of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.
(3.) The amendment made by paragraph (b) of section 3 of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six.
(4.) The amendments made by sections 4 and 7 of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the thirteenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-five.
(5.) The amendment made by section 5 of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six.
Interpretation.
3. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by inserting in paragraph (a) of the definition of “capital expenditure” in sub-section (1.), after the word “services”, the words “,other than expenditure on the alteration of a building at a cost of less than Five thousand pounds”;
(b) by inserting after sub-section (1.) the following subsection:—
“(1a.) For the purposes of the application of this Act in relation to the year One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six, the provisions of this Act have effect as if the University of Adelaide at Bedford Park and the Flinders University of South Australia were the same University and as if a reference in this Act to the University of Adelaide at Bedford Park included a reference to the Flinders University of South Australia.”.
Recurrent grants in respect of teaching hospitals.
4. Section 8b of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by inserting after sub-section (1.) the following sub-section:—
“(1a.) For the purposes of this section, the teaching hospitals of a University specified in the following table include, in addition to any hospitals that are teaching hospitals of that University by virtue of the last preceding sub-section, the hospital or hospitals the name or names of which is or are specified in that table opposite to the name of that University:—
| University | Teaching Hospital |
| University of New South Wales.. | Prince Henry Hospital |
| University of Melbourne............. | Royal Children’s Hospital Fairfield Hospital |
| Monash University...................... | Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital |
| University of Western Australia . | Fremantle Hospital King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women” |
(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (2.) the words “the Faculty of Medicine of the University” and inserting in their stead the words “the Faculties of Medicine of that University and of any other University in relation to which that hospital is a teaching hospital”; and
(c) by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-section (3.), after the word “contributions”, the words “paid to that University”.
First Schedule.
5. The First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting from Part III. the words and figures—
| “Townsville University College......... | 221,000 | 120,000” |
and inserting in their stead the words and figures—
| “Townsville University College......... | 256,000 | 139,000”; and |
(b) by omitting from that Part the figures—
“29,494,000 | 15,943,000”
and inserting in their stead the figures—
“29,529,000 | 15,962,000”.
Second Schedule.
6. The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the portion of the second column relating to the University of Queensland the words “Erection of building at Pimlico” and inserting in their stead the words “Erection of building at Ross River”.
Fifth Schedule.
7. The Fifth Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the portion of the second column relating to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital the words “the Fairfax Institute of Pathology” and inserting in their stead the words “the X-ray Department”.
Modification of States Grants (Universities) Act 1960.
8. The States Grants (Universities) Act 1960, and that Act as amended at any time, shall be deemed to have had effect as if the definition of “capital expenditure” in sub-section (1.) of section 4 of that Act did not include expenditure on the alteration of a building at a cost of less than Five thousand pounds.