EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

REGULATION
UNDER THE EDUCATION ORDINANCE 1937-1959

No. 4 of 1961

	The Education Regulations contain provisions for the awarding annually of bursaries to successful candidates, within the Australian Capital Territory at a qualifying examination or in the external Intermediate Certificate Examination.  The bursaries are tenable at secondary schools within the Australian Capital Territory.

2.	Eligibility for the award of a bursary ceases if the annual income of the parents or guardians of an applicant exceeds an amount specified in regulation 27.

3.	To ensure reasonable competition from candidates of bursary standard it has been necessary in the Australian Capital Territory to widen the scope of eligibility by applying income scales higher by £50 in each case than those applying in the State of New South Wales.

4.	New scales applicable in the State of New South Wales were gazetted last year to come into operation this year.  This regulation increases each of the income scales at present prescribed in the Education Regulations to an amount of fifty pounds (£50) in excess of the New South Wales current scales.