Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1976 No. 131, 1976 - SECT 9

9. (1) For the purposes of this section, the Minister may approve a program,
in connexion with the provision of technical and further education in a State,
that is proposed to be carried out in the year 1977, being a program by way
of-

   (a)  the provision of training for members of the staff of an institution
        providing, or an authority administering an institution providing,
        technical and further education, being training designed to improve
        the efficiency of those members in the performance of their work for
        the institution or authority and provided by such an institution or
        authority or by another body on behalf of such an institution or
        authority; and

   (b)  the collection and processing by an institution providing, or by an
        authority administering an institution providing,
        technical and further education, of statistical or other material
        relating to technical and further education.

(2) The Minister may revoke or vary any approval given under sub-section (1).

(3) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by
way of financial assistance to the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent
expenditure in connexion with programs approved under sub-section (1), of such
amounts as he determines.

(4) The Minister-

   (a)  shall not authorize payments to a State under this section, in respect
        of programs of a kind referred to in paragraph (1) (a), that exceed,
        in the aggregate, the amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 4 in
        relation to the State; and

   (b)  shall not authorize payments to a State under this section, in respect
        of programs of a kind referred to in paragaph (1) (b), that exceed, in
        the aggregate, the amount specified in Column 3 of Schedule 4 in
        relation to the State.

(5) Where a State requests that the amounts of the grants specified in Columns
2 and 3 of Schedule 4 in relation to a State be varied, the Minister may, in
his discretion, determine, in writing, that this Act have effect as if there
were substituted for those amounts the respective amounts specified in the
determination.

(6) A determination under sub-section (5) shall not provide for a variation of
the amounts of the grants specified in Columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 4 in
relation to a State in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of
the amounts so specified is greater or less than the amount specified in
Column 4 of that Schedule in relation to the State.