1States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969

States Grants (Advanced Education)

No. 81 of 1969

An Act relating to the grant of Financial Assistance to the States in connexion with Advanced Education.

[Assented to 26 September 1969]

[Date of commencement 24 October 1969]

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.

1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969.

Interpretation.

2.—(1.) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—

“approved project” means a work or other matter in respect of a college of advanced education, being a work or other matter—

(a) specified in the Second Schedule; or

(b) approved by the Minister under paragraph (c) of subsection (1.) of the next succeeding section,

to the extent to which particulars of that work or other matter have been approved by the Minister in accordance with that section;

“capital expenditure” means—

(a) expenditure on the purchase of land, with or without buildings, the planning, erection, alteration or extension of a building, the development or preparation of land for building or other purposes or the installation of water, electricity or other services; and

(b) expenditure exceeding Two thousand dollars for the purchase of, or otherwise in connexion with, a single item of equipment;

“college of advanced education” means a place of education or body referred to in a Schedule;

“college purposes”, in relation to a college of advanced education, means—

(a) where the college is a place of education referred to in a Schedule—the general teaching purposes of that college in connexion with courses of study at that college approved by the Minister under the next succeeding section, including external tuition for those courses of study, planning and other preparatory work in connexion with proposed courses of study approved by the Minister under that section and the provision by that college of residential accommodation for staff and students of that college; and

(b) where the college is a body referred to in a Schedule—the purposes, or the furtherance of the objects, of that body specified in the State Act by which the body is constituted;

“fees” means tuition, examination and other fees paid by a student enrolled at, or applying for enrolment at, a college of advanced education in connexion with a course of study at the college approved by the Minister under the next succeeding section, being fees forming part of the funds available for expenditure for college purposes, and includes fees paid by a student to a college of advanced education in respect of the conferring of a diploma, certificate or other award in respect of such a course of study, but does not include fees the payment of which is voluntary or fees paid to an organization of students;