HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ACT 1988
[ CCH Note: Act No 150 of 2003, s 3 and Sch 1 items 19 and 24, contain the following transitional provisions:
``Rollover of 2004 grants made under the Higher Education Funding Act 1988
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If:
(a) a body receives a grant of financial assistance under Chapter 2 of the old Act during the year 2004; and
(b) the body fails to spend all of that grant in accordance with the old Act in respect of the year 2004; and
(c) the Secretary determines in writing that this paragraph applies to the body;then so much of the unspent grant amount as the Secretary specifies in relation to the grant will be taken to have been granted to the body under the new Act in respect of the year 2005:
(d) under the section of the new Act that the Secretary specifies in the determination; and
(e) on such conditions as the Secretary specifies in the determination. Definitions
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In this Schedule:new Act
means the Higher Education Support Bill 2003 .old Act
means the Higher Education Funding Act 1988 .'']
In this section:
equal opportunity project
means a project designed to promote equality of opportunity in respect of higher education.
22(2)
The Minister may approve a proposal for expenditure by an institution to which this section applies on an equal opportunity project as a proposal deserving financial assistance under this section in respect of a year to which this Chapter applies subject to such conditions as the Minister determines.
22(3)
Where the Minister approves a proposal for expenditure by an institution in respect of a year, the Minister is (subject to section 23C ) to determine an amount, not exceeding the estimated expenditure on the proposal in that year, as the amount of the approved expenditure in relation to the proposal and as from 1 January in that year, the amount specified in a determination under section 15 or 16 , as the case requires, in relation to the institution in respect of that year is to be taken to be increased by the amount of the approved expenditure.
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