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STATES GRANTS (UNIVERSITIES).

No. 75 of 1953.

An Act to make provision for the grant of Financial Assistance to the States in connexion with Universities.

[Assented to 10th December, 1953.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows :—

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Universities) Act 1953.

Commencement.

This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three.

Repeal.

3.—(1.) The States Grants (Universities) Act 1951 is repealed.

(2.) An amount paid to a State in respect of the year One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three under a provision of the Act repealed by this section shall be deemed to have been paid in respect of that year under the corresponding provision of this Act.

Interpretation.

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

“capital expenditure” means—

(a) expenditure on the erection of a new building; and

(b) expenditure, exceeding Five hundred pounds, on the alteration of an existing building or for the purchase of, or otherwise in connexion with, a single item of equipment;

“fees” means tuition, examination, matriculation and other fees payable to a University by a student enrolled at, or applying for enrolment at, the University in connexion with his course of study or attendance at the University, and includes fees payable to the University in respect of the conferring of a degree or diploma, but does not include fees the payment of which is voluntary or fees payable to an organization of students;

“State grants” means moneys paid by a State to a University for university purposes, not being—

(a) moneys used for capital expenditure; or

(b) moneys paid in fulfilment of the conditions upon which a payment is made to the State under this Act;

“the Joint Engineering Board of Management” means the Joint Engineering Board of Management established under an agreement made on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, between the Minister for Education of the State of Tasmania and the Council of the University of Tasmania;

“University” means a University specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Act, and includes the New England University College;

“university purposes” means the general teaching and research purposes of a University in connexion with courses of study at the University, and includes external tuition for courses of study at the University.

First Column.	Second Column.	Third Column.	Fourth Column.	Fifth Column.
University.	Amount of fees and State grants.	Amount of financial assistanceunder section 5 (1.) (b).	Maximum amount payable under section 5 (1.) (a).	Amount for teaching and administrative costs of residential colleges.
New South Wales—	£	£	£	£
University of Sydney.............	783,369	270,023	202,140	8,900
New South Wales University of Technology	605,805	81,885	61,652	2,356
New England University College......	64,164	13,099	9,960	220
Victoria—
University of Melbourne...........	655,159	220,414	165,000	7,265
Queensland—
University of Queensland...........	309,269	93,226	69,780	3,073
South Australia—
University of Adelaide............	272,394	93,893	70,320	3,095
Western Australia—
University of Western Australia......	183,531	62,845	47,400	1,668
Tasmania—
University of Tasmania............	106,319	33,127	22,920	505
	2,980,010	868,512	649,172	27,082