Commonwealth Grant Scheme Amendment (National Priorities) Guidelines 2022

I, Jason Clare, Minister for Education, make the following Guidelines.

Dated 6 December 2022   

Jason Clare

Minister for Education

Contents

1  Name...................................................1

2  Commencement............................................1

3  Authority................................................1

4  Schedules................................................1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines 2020 2

1  Name

  This instrument is the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Amendment (National Priorities) Guidelines 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 238-10 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines 2020

1  Paragraph 8(b)

Repeal and insert:

 (b) Torrens University Australia Ltd;

2  Paragraph 10(b)

Repeal paragraph 10(b).  

3  Paragraph 10(c)

Omit “.”, substitute “; and”.

4  After paragraph 10(c)

Insert:

(d)    for courses commencing in 2023 and 2024 only, increasing the number of persons from under-represented backgrounds undertaking courses of study in the following areas of study: Education, Nursing, Engineering, Computing, Commerce, and Society and Culture.

5  After Chapter 8

Add:

Chapter 9—Application, saving and transitional provisions  

22  Application of amendments made by the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Amendment (National Priorities) Guidelines 2022

Despite the amendments to section 8 of this instrument made by Schedule 1 to the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Amendment (National Priorities) Guidelines 2022, section 8 of this instrument, as in force immediately before the commencement of the Commonwealth Grant Scheme Amendment (National Priorities) Guidelines 2022, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to grants made to the University of Notre Dame Australia in calendar year 2021 and preceding years.