10Reimbursement of moneys expended by States before commencing day on recurrent expenditure of student residence and affiliated colleges

10 Reimbursement of moneys expended by States before commencing day on recurrent expenditure of student residence and affiliated colleges

(1) Where the State Education Minister for a State requests the Commonwealth Education Minister to authorize the reimbursement to the State of an amount of moneys which, during the relevant period: (a) had been paid by the State to a college of advanced education for the purpose of meeting administrative costs of a student residence, or of student residences, of the college in respect of the year 1976; or (b) had been paid by the State to the body administering an affiliated college of a college of advanced education for the purpose of meeting administrative costs of the affiliated college in respect of the year 1976; otherwise than out of financial assistance granted to the State under any other Act providing for the granting of financial assistance to the States in relation to colleges of advanced education, the Commonwealth Education Minister may, subject to section 11, authorize the payment to the State under this subsection, by way of financial assistance to the State, of such amount as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines, being an amount that does not exceed the amount referred to in the request. (2) The financial assistance to a State constituted by a payment or payments of moneys under subsection (1) (in this subsection referred to as the relevant financial assistance) in relation to a student residence, or student residences, of a college of advanced education, or in relation to an affiliated college of a college of advanced education, is granted on the condition that the State will cause to be furnished to the Commission, not later than 30 September 1977, a statement in writing signed by the Auditor‑General of the State or by a qualified accountant to the effect that he or she has satisfied himself or herself that an amount equal to the relevant financial assistance was applied for meeting administrative costs of the student residence or student residences, or of the affiliated college, as the case may be, in respect of the year 1976, otherwise than out of moneys paid to the college of advanced education, or to the body administering the affiliated college, as the case may be, from financial assistance granted to the States under this Act or any other Act providing for the granting of financial assistance to the States in relation to colleges of advanced education. (3) For the purposes of this section: (a) moneys applied during the relevant period for meeting administrative costs of a hall, college or other establishment at which any students of a college of advanced education reside, being an establishment administered by: (i) the college or the body administering the college; or (ii) a body established by the college or by the body administering the college; shall be taken to have been applied for meeting the administrative costs of a student residence of the college if the establishment was, after the commencing day, approved by the Commission, for the purpose of this Act, as a student residence; and (b) moneys applied during the relevant period for meeting administrative costs of a residential college, not being a hall, college or other establishment referred to in paragraph (a), affiliated with a college of advanced education shall be taken to have been applied for meeting the administrative costs of an affiliated college if the residential college was, after the commencing day, approved by the Commission, for the purposes of this Act, as an affiliated college.