Higher Education (Maximum Amount for Special Purpose Advances) Specification 2023 I, Damian Coburn, delegate of the Minister for Education, make the following specification. Dated 23 March 2023 Damian Coburn Acting First Assistant Secretary Higher Education Division Delegate of the Minister for Education Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Schedules 6 Maximum amount of special purpose advances for a year Schedule 1—Repeals Higher Education (Maximum Amount for Special Purpose Advances) Specification 2012 1 Name This instrument is the Higher Education (Maximum Amount for Special Purpose Advances) Specification 2023. 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. Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 33-40(3A) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003. 4 Definitions Note: The expression higher education provider used in this instrument is defined in Schedule 1 to the Act. In this instrument: Act means the Higher Education Support Act 2003. 5 Schedules Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms. 6 Maximum amount of special purpose advances for a year (1) For the purposes of subsection 33-40(3A) of the Act, the total of the advances that may be paid to a higher education provider in respect of a year must not exceed $25,000,000. Schedule 1—Repeals Higher Education (Maximum Amount for Special Purpose Advances) Specification 2012 1 The whole of the instrument Repeal the instrument.