Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

STATES GRANTS (ADVANCED EDUCATION) ACT 1976 - SECT 9

             (1)  Subject to section 11, there is payable to each State, in respect of the year 1976, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to student residences and affiliated colleges of colleges of advanced education in the State, amounts determined in accordance with this section.

             (2)  In relation to each college of advanced education providing collegiate accommodation at a student residence or at student residences, there is payable to the State in which the college is situated an amount equal to the sum of the amount of $8,083 and the amount ascertained by multiplying $127.02 by the number of resident full‑time students at that student residence, or at those student residences, as the case may be, in the year 1976.

             (3)  In relation to each affiliated college, there is payable to a State under this section, an amount ascertained by multiplying the basic grant in relation to the college by the number of resident full‑time students of the college in the year 1976.

             (4)  For the purpose of subsection (3), the basic grant in relation to an affiliated college is:

                     (a)  if the number of resident full‑time students of the college in the year 1976 is not more than 50--$288.68;

                     (b)  if the number of resident full‑time students of the college in the year 1976 is more than 50 but not more than 75--$288.68 reduced by $2.31 for each student by which that number of students exceeds 50;

                     (c)  if the number of resident full‑time students of the college in the year 1976 is more than 75 and not more than 100--$230.94 reduced by $0.92 for each student by which that number of students exceeds 75; and

                     (d)  if the number of resident full‑time students of the college in 1976 is more than 100--$207.85 reduced by $0.18 for each student for which that number of students exceeds 100.

             (5)  Where a student residence or affiliated college, or a part of such a residence or college, was not in use during the whole of the academic year comprised in the year 1976, the Commission may determine that an amount payable under this section in respect of that year in relation to that residence or college shall be such part only of the amount that would otherwise be payable as the Commission thinks appropriate.

             (6)  The financial assistance to a State by way of a payment of an amount under this section in relation to a student residence or affiliated college of a college of advanced education is granted on the conditions that:

                     (a)  in the case of the payment of an amount in relation to a student residence or student residences--the State will ensure that the amount is applied for meeting administrative costs of the student residence, or of those student residences, in respect of the year 1976; or

                     (b)  in the case of a payment of an amount in relation to an affiliated college:

                              (i)  the State will, without undue delay, pay that amount to the body administering the affiliated college; and

                             (ii)  the State will ensure the amount so paid by the State is applied for meeting administrative costs of the affiliated college in respect of the year 1976.

             (7)  For the purposes of this section, the number of resident full‑time students of a student residence or affiliated college in the year 1976 is the number that is the average of the maximum numbers of such students during the several terms of that year.

             (8)  This section does not apply in relation to a student residence or affiliated college that does not provide collegiate accommodation, and, for the purposes of this section, no account shall be taken of resident full‑time students occupying non‑collegiate accommodation.

             (9)  In this section:

"full-time student" means a student who is pursuing, at a college of advanced education or at a University, a course of study that the Commission is satisfied is such as would reasonably require full-time study.

"resident full-time student" , in relation to a student residence or affiliated college, means a full-time student who:

                     (a)  is a resident of the student residence or affiliated college; and

                     (b)  in the case of a student of a college of advanced education‑is pursuing a course of study approved by the Commission under section 5.

"term" includes a semester and any other period into which an academic year is divided.

"University" has the same meaning as in the States Grants (Universities) Act 1972-1976 .