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 .'']
There is payable to an institution to which this section applies, for the purpose of financial assistance in relation to the review of, and research in connection with, the undergraduate medical curriculum of the institution in so far as it is concerned with matters relating to the abuse of alcohol and drugs, in respect of the year 1989 or the year 1990, such amount as the Minister determines.
25(2)
The total of the amounts determined under subsection (1) in respect of a year shall not exceed:
(a) in the case of the year 1989 - $584,000; and
(b) in the case of the year 1990 - $618,000.
25(3)
Financial assistance is granted to an institution under subsection (1) in respect of a year on the condition that:
(a) the sum of the amounts spent by the institution for the purpose of the review and research referred to in subsection (1) in the institution in respect of that year;
is not less than:
(b) the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the institution under subsection (1) in respect of that year.
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