Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Act 2007 (119 of 2007)

Schedule 2   Funding clusters

Higher Education Support Act 2003

5   Section 33-15

Repeal the section, substitute:

33-17 Reductions in assistance for higher education providers failing to meet certain requirements

(1) A higher education provider's *basic grant amount for a year is reduced if:

(a) the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines impose on higher education providers requirements to be known as the National Governance Protocols; and

(b) the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines impose on higher education providers requirements to be known as the Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements; and

(c) the Minister is satisfied that the provider does not meet the requirements in paragraphs (a) and (b) as at the dates that are specified in the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines in relation to each of those requirements, in the year preceding the year.

(2) The reduction under subsection (1) is an amount equal to the amount that would have been the increase under repealed section 33-15 if:

(a) the provider had been entitled to an increase of 7.5% under that section as in force immediately before the commencement of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Act 2007; and

(b) the *funding clusters were the funding clusters that existed immediately before the commencement of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Act 2007; and

(c) the *Commonwealth contribution amount for each of those funding clusters was the amount that would have been the Commonwealth contribution amount for the funding cluster for the year if the amounts in the table in section 33-10 had not been amended by the Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Act 2007 or any later Act.