Definitions
3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting “of technical and further education” from the definition of “course of study” and substituting “declared by the Minister, for the purposes of an Act relating to the funding of technical and further education, to be a course of technical and further education”;
(b) by omitting “or the year 1991” from paragraph (b) of the definition of “ year to which this Chapter applies” and substituting “, the year 1991 or the year 1992”;
(c) by omitting the definition of “technical and further education”;
(d) by inserting the following definition:
“ ‘overseas student’ has the same meaning as in the Overseas Students Charge Act 1979, but does not include a student to whom paragraph 4(1) (a) of the Overseas Students Charge Collection Regulations applies;”.
Institutions
4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the Table from subsection (1) and substituting the following Table:
“NEW SOUTH WALES
Armidale College of Advanced Education
Avondale College
Catholic College of Education Sydney Ltd
Charles Sturt University
Cumberland College of Health Sciences
Hawkesbury Agricultural College
Hunter Institute of Higher Education
Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education
Macarthur Institute of Higher Education
Mitchell College of Advanced Education
Nepean College of Advanced Education
New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music
Northern College of Advanced Education
Orange Agricultural College
Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education
Sydney College of Advanced Education
The Macquarie University
The New South Wales Institute of the Arts
The University of New South Wales
The University of Newcastle
The University of Wollongong
University of New England
University of Sydney
University of Technology, Sydney
University of Western Sydney
VICTORIA
Ballarat College of Advanced Education
Bendigo College of Advanced Education
Chisholm Institute of Technology
Deakin University
Footscray Institute of Technology
Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education
Hawthorn Institute of Education
Institute of Catholic Education
La Trobe University
Marcus Oldham College of Farm Management
Monash University
Phillip Institute of Technology
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Ltd
Swinburne Limited
The Victorian College of the Arts
The Western Institute
The Wodonga Institute of Tertiary Education
University of Melbourne
Victoria College
Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture
Victorian College of Pharmacy Ltd
Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education
QUEENSLAND
Brisbane College of Advanced Education
Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education
Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education
Gold Coast College of Advanced Education
Griffith University
James Cook University of North Queensland
McAuley College
Queensland Agricultural College
Queensland Conservatorium of Music
Queensland University of Technology
The University of Queensland
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Curtin University of Technology
Murdoch University
The University of Western Australia
Western Australian College of Advanced Education
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Roseworthy Agricultural College
South Australian College of Advanced Education
South Australian Institute of Technology
The Flinders University of South Australia
The University of Adelaide
TASMANIA
Tasmanian State Institute of Technology
University of Tasmania
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Signadou College of Education
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Batchelor College
Northern Territory University”.
Maximum grants
5. Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) “$2,240,750,000; and” and substituting “$2,282,996,000;”;
(b) by omitting from paragraph (c) “$2,280,659,000” and substituting “$2,297,052,000”;
(c) by adding at the end the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$2,342,969,000.”.
Grants for Aboriginal participation projects
6. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (4) (b) “and”;
(b) by adding at the end of subsection (4) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$13,476,000.”.
Grants for superannuation expenses
7. Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) “$118,106,000; and” and substituting “$48,560,000;”;
(b) by omitting from paragraph (3) (c) “$127,199,000” and substituting “$57,653,000”;
(c) by adding at the end of subsection (3) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$66,629,000.”.
Grants for projects of national priority
8. Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) “and”;
(b) by adding at the end of subsection (3) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$28,855,000.”.
Promotion of equality of opportunity
9. Section 22 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “and”;
(b) by adding at the end of subsection (5) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$1,315,000.”.
Special research assistance
10. (1) Section 23 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:
“(1) The Minister may approve a proposal for expenditure by an institution to which this section applies upon:
(a) a special research centre; or
(b) a key centre of teaching and research; or
(c) Australian postgraduate research awards; or
(d) overseas postgraduate research awards; or
(e) a program of research;
as a proposal deserving financial assistance under this section in respect of a year to which this Chapter applies subject to such conditions as the Minister determines.”;
(b) by omitting from paragraph (4) (a) “$15,717,000” and substituting “$15,489,900”;
(c) by omitting from paragraph (4) (b) “$36,927,000; and” and substituting “$144,396,000;”;
(d) by omitting from paragraph (4) (c) “$63,327,000” and substituting “$185,338,000”;
(e) by adding at the end of subsection (4) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$196,003,000.”.
(2) An approval made by the Minister under subsection 23 (1) of the Principal Act as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act is to be taken, after that commencement, to have been made under subsection 23 (1) of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.
Grants in respect of teaching hospitals
11. Section 24 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) “and”;
(b) by adding at the end of subsection (3) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$3,836,000.”.
Grants for building projects
12. Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “$84,669,000; and” and substituting “$87,731,000;”;
(b) by omitting from paragraph (5) (c) “$84,669,000” and substituting “$87,731,000”;
(c) by adding at the end of subsection (5) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$87,731,000.”.
Grants for Aboriginal participation projects
13. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (4) (b) “and”;
(b) by adding at the end of subsection (4) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$12,329,000.”.
Promotion of equality of opportunity
14. Section 30 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “and”;
(b) by adding at the end of subsection (5) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$2,112,000.”.
Grants for building projects
15. Section 31 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “$72,064,000; and” and substituting “$74,671,000;”;
(b) by omitting from paragraph (5) (c) “$106,345,000” and substituting “$110,192,000”;
(c) by adding at the end of subsection (5) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (d) in the case of the year 1992—$110,192,000.”.
Interpretation
16. Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) the definition of “overseas student”.
NOTE
1. No. 2, 1989, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 138, 1988; and No. 80, 1989.
[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 2 November 1989 Senate on 13 December 1989]