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Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006 (Act No. 16 of 2006)

Chapter 5 : Funding of Public Colleges

22. Responsibility of State

 

(1) The Member of the Executive Council must from money appropriated for this purpose by the provincial legislature fund public colleges on a fair, equitable and transparent basis.

 

(2) The Member of the Executive Council may, subject to the norms and standards determined in terms of section 23, impose—
(a) any condition in respect of an allocation of funding contemplated in subsection (1); and
(b) different conditions in respect of different public colleges, different continuing education and training qualifications or part-qualifications or different allocations, if there is a reasonable basis for such differentiation.

[Paragraph (b) amended by section 7 of Act No. 1 of 2013]

 

(3) Subject to the requirements in the minimum norms and standards determined in terms of section 23, the Member of the Executive Council must determine further appropriate measures for the redress of past inequalities.

 

(4) The Member of the Executive Council must, on an annual basis, provide sufficient information to public colleges regarding the funding referred to in subsection (1) to enable the colleges to prepare their budgets for the next financial year.