Higher Education Support (Indigenous Student Success Program) (Rollover of Grant Amounts) Amendment Determination (No. 2) 2024

I, Stacey Bowden, Delegate of the Chief Executive Office, make the following determination.

Dated  19 December 2024

Stacey Bowden

Director, Early Years and Tertiary Support, National Indigenous Australians Agency

Contents

Name     1 

Commencement   1 

Authority    1 

Schedules    1 

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

1  Name

  This instrument is the Higher Education Support (Indigenous Student Success Program) (Rollover of Grant Amounts) Amendment Determination (No. 2) 2024.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsections 38-40(3) and 38-40(4) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 for the purposes of Part 2-2A of that Act.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Higher Education Support (Indigenous Student Success Program) (Rollover of Grant Amounts) Determination 2024

1  Section 4 Definitions

1.       At the definition of 2023 ISSP rollover grant, omit “item”, substitute “section”.
2.       At the definition of 2023 ISSP rollover grant, after “Act”, insert “, being the unspent component of an ISSP grant originally paid to the higher education provider in 2022, other than a 2023 ISSP second rollover grant”.
3.       After the definition of 2023 ISSP rollover grant, insert “2023 ISSP second rollover grant means an ISSP grant taken to be granted to a higher education provider listed in column 2 of the table in section 6A for the grant year because of the combined operation of the Higher Education Support (Indigenous Student Success Program) (Rollover of Grant Amounts) Determination 2023 and section 38-40 of the Act, being the unspent component of an ISSP grant originally paid to the higher education provider in 2021.”
4.       At the definition of 2024 ISSP rollover grant, after “year”, omit “, other than a grant comprising a 2024 ISSP further rollover grant”.
5.       After the definition of 2024 ISSP rollover grant, insert “2024 ISSP third rollover grant means the unspent component of a 2023 ISSP second rollover grant that, because of the combined operation of this instrument and section 38-40 of the Act, is taken to be granted under Part 2-2A of the Act to a higher education provider listed in column 2 of the table in section 6A in respect of the 2024 calendar year.”

2  Section 5 Rollover of 2023 ISSP grant amounts

1.       At Item 4, Column 3 of the table, omit “$156,395”, substitute “$281.874.99”.
2.       Repeal Item 10 of the table.
3.       At Item 19, Column 3 of the table, omit “$35,487.87”, substitute “26,042.07”.
4.       At Item 22, Column 3 of the table, omit “$278,534.40”, substitute “248,747.50”.

3  Section 6 Further rollover of 2023 ISSP rollover grant amounts

1.       At Item 2, Column 4 of the table, omit “292,000”, substitute “159,636.54”.
2.       At Item 3, Column 4 of the table, omit “111,777”, substitute “92,867.00”.
3.       At Item 6, Column 4 of the table, omit “$57,142”, substitute “$56,851.47”.
4.       Repeal Item 8 of the table.
5.       After Item 9 of the table, insert:

4 Before Section 7 Conditions on grants

1.       Before Section 7 Conditions of grants, insert:

6A  Third rollover of 2023 ISSP second rollover grant amounts

(1) For the purposes of subsection 38-40(1) of the Act, the following is determined under subsection 38-40(3) of the Act:

(a) section 38-40 applies to a higher education provider specified in column 2 of the table in respect of the grant specified in column 3 of the table;

(b) the amount specified in column 4 of the table is the amount of the unspent amount of the grant specified in column 3 of the table.

Note 1: If section 38-40 is determined to apply to a higher education provider in respect of a grant, then the effect of subsection 38‑40(1) of the Act is to rollover the amount of the unspent amount of the grant that is determined to the next following year as a new grant under Part 2-2A of the Act.

Note 2: Section 164-15 of the Act provides that an overpayment of an amount made to a higher education provider may be deducted from a future amount payable or recovered as a debt due to the Commonwealth.

5 Section 7 Conditions on grants

1.       Omit “and a 2024 ISSP further rollover grant”, substitute “, a 2024 ISSP further rollover grant, and a 2024 ISSP third rollover grant”.

6 Schedule 1 – Conditions, Item 1 Using a grant

1.       At Item 5, Column 4 of the table, after “programs” insert “; and b) First Nations Student Connect – expansion of digital resources”.

1.       At Item 6, Column 4 of the table, after “Innovation Fund;”, omit “ b) Community and student engagement activities; and c) First Nations Student Connect”, substitute  “and; Community and student engagement activities -  First Nations Ways of Knowing, Being and Doing Framework.”.
2.       After Item 6 of the table, insert:
    

1.       At Item 8, Column 3 of the table, omit “a) Culturally Safe Place; and b)      Community engagement activities”, substitute “a) 'Place of Being' - Culturally Safe Campuses - Stage 2 & 3; b) Industry Broker/Community engagement activities and coordination; and c) Fit out of Culturally Safe space for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.”.
2.       At Item 9, Column 3 of the table, omit “Culturally Safe Place; b) Cultural wellbeing activities; and c) Pathways Project and events”, substitute “a) Cultural wellbeing activities; and b) Pathways Project and events.”.
3.       After Item 9 of the table, insert:

1.       At Item 13, Column 3 of the table, omit “2024 ISSP rollover grant”, substitute “2024 ISSP further rollover grant”.
2.       At Item 13, Column 4 of the table, omit “Support programs for students and academics”, substitute “Indigenous Academic Enrichment Program”.
3.       After Item 13 of the table, insert:

1.   After Item 20 of the table, insert:

1.   At Item 21, Column 4 of the table, omit “Pathways programs”, substitute “Online preparation for commencing First Nations students”.
2.   At Item 26, Column 4 of the table, omit “a) Upgrade of student facilities; and b) Cultural programs for staff and students”, substitute “a) The Connected to Country Project”.
3.   Repeal Item 29 of the table.