EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM.

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

EDUCATION REGULATIONS.

No. 9 of 1957

	One qualification prescribed by the Education Regulations to the securing of a bursary in the A.C.T., is that the total income of an applicant’s parents should be no more than a prescribed maximum.

	It is the policy of the Department to make this maximum permissible income £50 higher than the corresponding incomes prescribed by New South Wales.  The scale of permissible incomes has been increased in new South Wales and in order to maintain the £50 margin these regulations prescribe the appropriate salaries.

	The draft regulations also provide an amendment to Clause 2 of the third schedule to the regulations so that in future, any moneys repayable to the Minister by nature of a breach of the bond, may be equivalent to the amount of moneys paid by the Minister to or on behalf of the student and that this amount will be a maximum, the Minister being empowered to demand a lesser sum.