38Grants for community language courses

38 Grants for community language courses

(1) The Commission may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Minister proposals for expenditure by a university or a college of advanced education on the provision, or the development and provision, of courses in community languages. (2) The Minister may approve a proposal submitted to him under subsection (1) as an approved community language proposal of the university or college of advanced education to which the proposal relates in respect of a year to which this Act applies, or in respect of each year to which this Act applies, that is specified in the approval, and may revoke or vary any such approval. (3) Where the Minister approves a proposal as an approved community language proposal of a university or of a college in respect of a particular year to which this Act applies, the Minister shall determine an amount, not exceeding the estimated expenditure on the proposal in that year, as the amount of approved expenditure on the proposal in respect of that year. (4) The aggregate of the amounts of approved expenditure on approved community language proposals of universities and colleges of advanced education shall not exceed:

(a) in respect of the year 1982—$820,000;

(b) in respect of the year 1983—$894,000; or

(c) in respect of the year 1984—$963,000.

(5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in relation to approved community language proposals of a university or college of advanced education in respect of a year to which this Act applies on the conditions that:

(a) the State will pay each amount of that financial assistance received by it to the university or college without undue delay;

(b) the State will ensure that the sum of the amounts expended by the university or college in connection with approved community language proposals of the university or college in respect of that year, being amounts expended before 1 January next following the end of that year or expended on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date, is not less than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section in relation to approved community language proposals of the university or college in respect of that year; and

(c) the State will ensure that the university or college furnishes to the Commission, not later than 30 September next following the end of that year, a statement by a qualified auditor, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, as to the expenditure by the university or college in connection with approved community language proposals of the university in respect of that year, being expenditure that occurred before 1 January next following the end of that year or that occurred on or after that date in respect of commitments entered into before that date.