States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972

2 Commencement.

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

3 First Schedule.

3. The First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Parts II. and III. and inserting in their stead the Parts set out in the First Schedule to this Act.

4 Second Schedule.

4. The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is repealed and the Schedule set out in the Second Schedule to this Act inserted in its stead.

Grant in respect of McGregor College in respect of the years 1971 and 1972.

5.—(1.) There is payable to the State of Queensland, in respect of a year to which this section applies, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to McGregor College at Toowoomba—

(a) an amount of Five thousand dollars; and

(b) in addition, an amount calculated by multiplying Thirty dollars by the number of resident students of McGregor College in that year.

(2.) Where McGregor College, or part of McGregor College, was not in use during the whole of the academic year included in a year to which this section applies, the Minister may determine that the amount payable under this section in respect of that year shall be such part only of the amount that would otherwise be payable as the Minister thinks appropriate.

(3.) The financial assistance to the State of Queensland under this section is granted on the conditions that—

(a) the State will, in respect of each payment of that financial assistance and without undue delay, pay an amount equal to that payment to the body administering McGregor College; and

(b) the State will satisfy itself that, in each year to which this section applies, an amount that is not less than the amount payable under tin’s section in respect of that year has been, or will be, used by the body administering McGregor College for the provision of tutorial assistance to students of, or for meeting administrative costs of, the College.

(4.) An amount of financial assistance to the State of Queensland under this section is granted on the conditions that—

(a) if the Minister informs the Treasurer of the State that he is satisfied that the State has failed to fulfil the conditions applicable to that amount, the State will repay that amount to the Commonwealth; and

(b) if that amount exceeds the amount properly payable, the State will repay the excess to the Commonwealth.

(5.) The Treasurer may, at such times as he thinks fit, make advances of such amounts as he thinks fit to the State of Queensland on account of an amount that may become payable under this section to the State, and the conditions set out in the last two preceding sub-sections are applicable to any such advance.

(6.) For the purposes of this section, the number of resident students of McGregor College in a year to which this section applies is the number that is the average of the maximum numbers of such students during the several terms of the academic year included in that year.

(7.) In this section, “year to which this section applies” means each of the years One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one and One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two.

6 Appropriation.

6. Payments to the State of Queensland under the last preceding section shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.

7 Changes in names of colleges of advanced education.

7. A place of education or a body that, for the purposes of the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969–1970 or the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969–1971, was referred to by a name specified in the first column of the Third Schedule to this Act shall, for the purposes of the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969–1972, be deemed to be the college of advanced education referred to in the second column of that Schedule opposite to that name.

THE SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Section 3.

Parts to be Inserted in the First Schedule to the Principal Act