34ABuilding projects in respect of the year 1983

34A Building projects in respect of the year 1983

(1) In relation to each building project specified, in relation to a technical and further education institution, in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7A, there is payable to the State in which the institution is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the project in respect of the year 1983, the amount specified in Column 4 of that Schedule in relation to the description of the project in Column 2. (2) Where the amount expended in relation to work carried out before 1 January 1983 in connection with a building project that is specified in relation to a technical and further education institution in Column 2 of Part VI of Schedule 7 exceeds the sum of the amounts paid to the State in which the technical and further education institution is situated, before 1 January 1983, in relation to the project under this Act or under any previous Act that granted financial assistance to the States in relation to technical and further education institutions, the Minister may, if an amount is specified in Part VI of Schedule 7A to this Act in relation to that project, at the request of the State made to him not later than 30 September 1983, direct that an amount specified in the direction, being an amount that does not exceed the amount of that excess, shall be treated as if it had been expended in relation to work carried out in connection with the project in the year 1983 and, where the Minister gives such a direction, then, for the purposes of this Act, that amount shall be treated as if it had been so expended in the year 1983.