Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Act 2011

No. 94, 2011

An Act to amend the law relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, and for related purposes

[Assented to 8 September 2011]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Act 2011.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

1 Subsection 3(1)

Omit “2013”, substitute “2014”.

2 Section 11D

Repeal the section.

3 Subsection 14B(1) (table item 1)

Omit “$159,430,000”, substitute “$130,305,000”.

4 Subsection 14B(1) (table item 2)

Omit “$167,058,000”, substitute “$126,206,000”.

5 Subsection 14B(1) (table item 3)

Omit “$163,703,000”, substitute “$117,200,000”.

6 Subsection 14B(1) (table item 4)

Omit “$161,236,000”, substitute “$120,020,000”.

7 After section 14B

Insert:

14C Appropriations for non‑ABSTUDY payments—2013

Appropriations—starting amounts

(1) Each amount specified in the following table (as increased in accordance with subsection (2)) is appropriated out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose of making non‑ABSTUDY payments during the specified period.

Appropriations for non‑ABSTUDY payments
Item	Starting amount	for the period starting on ...	and ending on ...
1	$133,527,000	1 January 2013	30 June 2014

Increasing starting amounts

(2) The regulations may make provision for increasing an amount mentioned in the table in subsection (1) by reference to changes in a specified index.

Schedule 2—Amendment of the Higher Education Support Act 2003

1 Subsection 41‑45(1) (table items 8 and 9)

Repeal the items, substitute:

8	2012	$2,057,978,000
9	2013	$2,181,068,000

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 26 May 2011

Senate on 7 July 2011]

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