Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ACT 1988

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Definitions  
   4.      Institutions  
   5.      References to payments and acts  
   6.      Proposed institutions  
   7.      Provision for superannuation or long service leave  
   8.      Special fund for equipment and minor building projects  
   9.      Making and variation of determinations etc.  
   10.     References to Northern Territory  
   11.     Securing compliance by prescribed non-government institutions  
   12.     Institutions to which provisions apply  
   13.     Student fees  
   14.     Educational profiles  
   15.     Grants for expenditure for operating purposes  
   16.     Grants for expenditure for limited operating purposes  
   17.     Maximum grants  
   18.     Conditions of grants  
   19.     Grants for Aboriginal participation projects  
   20.     Grants for superannuation expenses  
   21.     Grants for projects of national priority  
   22.     Promotion of equality of opportunity  
   23.     Special research assistance  
   24.     Grants in respect of teaching hospitals  
   25.     Grants in respect of drug and alcohol education in teaching hospitals  
   26.     Grants for building projects  
   27.     Conditions attaching to capital grants  
   28.     Adjustments where estimated 1988 enrolments not equal to actual enrolments  
   29.     Grants for Aboriginal participation projects  
   30.     Promotion of equality of opportunity  
   31.     Grants for building projects  
   32.     Grants for renovation projects  
   33.     Conditions attaching to capital grants  
   34.     Interpretation  
   35.     Exempt students  
   36.     Student load not to include work experience in industry  
   37.     Semesters  
   38.     Additional condition  
   39.     Requirement to pay contributions  
   40.     Annual course contribution  
   41.     Requirements before enrolment or undertaking course  
   42.     Power of Commissioner to inform institution concerning tax file number  
   43.     Application for issue or notification of tax file number  
   44.     Issuing of tax file numbers  
   45.     Current tax file number  
   46.     Deemed refusal by Commissioner  
   47.     Cancellation of tax file numbers  
   48.     Alteration of tax file numbers  
   49.     Notification of issued tax file numbers  
   50.     Review of decisions  
   51.     Statements to accompany notification of decisions  
   52.     Unauthorised requirement etc. that tax file number be quoted  
   53.     Unauthorised recording etc. of tax file number  
   54.     Notice by institution  
   55.     Requests for correction of notices  
   56.     Overpayment of contribution  
   57.     Commonwealth to discharge students' liabilities  
   58.     Institutions to provide information to Minister  
   59.     Establishment of Fund  
   60.     Payments into Fund  
   61.     Application of Fund  
   62.     HEC semester debt  
   63.     Power of Secretary to remit semester debt in special circumstances  
   64.     Review of decision of Secretary  
   65.     Calculation of accumulated HEC debt  
   66.     Accumulated HEC debt discharges earlier debts  
   67.     Voluntary payments in respect of HEC debts  
   68.     Compulsory payments in respect of accumulated HEC debt  
   69.     Institutions to provide information to Commissioner  
   70.     Annual returns  
   71.     Assessment  
   72.     Application of Income Tax Assessment Act  
   73.     Notification on notices of assessment of tax  
   74.     Power of Commissioner to defer assessment or reduce assessment to nil  
   75.     Review of decision of Commissioner  
   76.     Application of payments  
   77.     Indebtedness discharged by death  
   78.     Secrecy  
   79.     Principal Act  
   80.     Losses and outgoings  
   81.     Deductions for expenses of self-education  
   82.     Application of deductions in payment of tax  
   83.     Provisional tax to be credited against other tax  
   84.     Application of credits  
   85.      
   86.     Principal Act  
   87.      
   88.     Principal Act  
   89.     Interpretation  
   90.     Principal Act  
   91.     Abolition of charge  
   92.     Principal Act  
   93.     Abolition of charge  
   94.     Principal Act  
   95.     Abolition of charge  
   96.     Charges not to be imposed  
   97.     Principal Act  
   98.     Amount of charge  
   99.     Institutions to which provisions apply  
   100.    Grants for expenditure for operating purposes  
   101.    Grants for expenditure for limited operating purposes  
   102.    Maximum grants  
   103.    Conditions of grants  
   104.    Special assistance for students  
   105.    Reimposition of charge  
   106.    Additional condition  
   107.    Benefits of, and opportunities created by, grants to be equally available to female and male students  
   108.    Additional conditions  
   109.    Amendments affecting State entitlements to grants  
   110.    Disallowable instruments  
   111.    Time and manner of payments  
   112.    Delegation  
   113.    Advances  
   114.    Sources of certain payments to States  
   115.    Authority to borrow  
   116.    Application of money borrowed  
   117.    Reimbursement of Consolidated Revenue Fund from Loan Fund  
   118.    Appropriation  
   119.    Report by the Minister  
   120.    Regulations  
   121.    Amendments of the Australian National University Act  
   122.    Amendments of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act  
   123.    Amendments of the Employment, Education and Training Act  
   124.    Amendments of the Maritime College Act  
   125.    Principal Act  
   126.    Promotion of equality of opportunity  
   127.    Recurrent grants may be increased to assist institutions in promoting greater participation of Aboriginals in higher education  
   128.    Special assistance for students  
   129.    Special research assistance  
   130.    Recurrent grants may be increased to assist institutions in meeting certain superannuation expenses  
   131.    Substitution of Schedules  
   132.    Payments made before Royal Assent  

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