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Health Act 1956

Miscellaneous provisions

132A: Bursaries

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"Help to study for health jobs through government bursaries"

The Minister can create bursaries to help people get qualifications for jobs that keep the public healthy. You can get a bursary to study for a job or to get more qualifications for a job you already have. The Minister decides how many bursaries to give and how much money each one is worth, and they do this with the help of the Minister of Finance.

The government pays for these bursaries using money that Parliament has set aside for this purpose. The Minister can make rules about who gets a bursary and what conditions they have to meet to keep it. If you get a bursary, you might have to sign a bond, which is a promise to pay back the money if you don't meet the conditions.

If you sign a bond, you promise to pay back the money if you don't do what you said you would do. You might have to work for a certain amount of time to pay back the bursary. The Minister can also ask someone else, like a parent or guardian, to sign the bond with you, so you are both responsible for paying it back. The bond is like a contract, and it can be enforced even if you don't want to pay it back.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions

132ABursaries

  1. For the purpose of assisting suitable persons to qualify for professions, occupations, and callings concerned with the maintenance or promotion of public health, or for obtaining additional qualifications in such professions, occupations, or callings, the Minister may establish bursaries which shall be of such number and value as he may determine, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, in respect of any particular case or class of cases.

  2. All payments in connection with bursaries so established shall be paid out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose.

  3. Without limiting the power to make regulations under section 117, it is hereby declared that regulations may be made under that section prescribing conditions, in addition to or in lieu of the condition referred to in subsection (4), subject to which such bursaries shall be held and the circumstances in which and the persons by whom such bursaries may be cancelled or suspended.

  4. Any person to whom a bursary is awarded under this section (in this section referred to as the bursar) may be required as a condition of receiving that bursary to sign a bond in a form to be determined by the Minister requiring him to pay to the Crown the sum therein specified if he makes default in the performance of any condition of the bond: provided that, in any case where the bursar is required, as a condition for the discharge of the bond, to render a period or periods of service, the said sum shall be reduced during the currency of the bond by an amount equivalent to the proportion that the service rendered by the bursar in accordance with the condition of the bond bears to the full period of service required for the discharge of the bond.

  5. The Minister may require that such a bond shall also be signed by a parent or guardian, or by some person approved by the Minister, as surety; and in that event the bursar and such surety shall be jointly and severally liable thereunder.

  6. Every such bond shall be enforceable against the bursar and the surety who signs it, notwithstanding anything in this Act or any other Act or any rule of law.

  7. Nothing in this section shall affect any bursary awarded by or on behalf of the Minister otherwise than pursuant to this section or the validity of any agreement, bond, or acknowledgement, whether executed before or after the commencement of this section, relating to any such bursary.

Notes
  • Section 132A: inserted, on , by section 13(1) of the Health Amendment Act 1964 (1964 No 34).