31Other recurrent grants

31 Other recurrent grants

(1) A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Commission, a proposal for recurrent expenditure in connection with the provision of technical and further education in that State, being a proposal for expenditure in relation to:

(a) curriculum research and development;

(b) the provision of services and facilities that are supplementary to courses of technical and further education;

(c) the taking of measures, either through the provision of programs of preparatory or remedial education or otherwise, to assist in making technical and further education more generally accessible to the public;

(d) the development of procedures that improve the provision, and the assessment, of courses of instruction available in technical and further education institutions; and

(e) the provision of administrative services for technical and further education institutions.

(2) The Commission:

(a) may approve a proposal submitted to it by a State under subsection (1) as an approved proposal for expenditure by the State in respect of a year to which this Part applies;

(b) shall, where it so approves a proposal, designate the approval as an approval of the proposal for the purposes of subsection (5) or (6); and

(c) may vary or revoke any such approval.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), where the Commission approves a proposal for the purposes of subsection (6) in respect of a year to which this Part applies, it shall approve an amount as the amount of approved expenditure on that proposal in respect of that year. (4) The aggregate of the amounts approved by the Commission under subsection (3) as amounts of approved expenditure on proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (6) in respect of the year to which this Part applies shall not exceed the amount specified in whichever of Parts II, IV and VI of Schedule 13 relates to that year. (5) There is payable to a State, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to recurrent expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of the State in accordance with an approved proposal or approved proposals for expenditure by the State in respect of a year to which this Part applies (not being a proposal or proposals approved for the purposes of subsection (6)), the amount specified in relation to the State in Column 2 of whichever of Parts I, III and V of Schedule 13 relates to that year. (6) There is payable to a State for the purpose of financial assistance in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the State or by an instrumentality of the State in relation to a proposal approved for the purposes of this subsection in respect of a year to which this Part applies, an amount equal to the amount of the approved expenditure of the proposal in respect of that year. (7) Financial assistance is granted to a State under subsection (5) on the conditions that: