4 MARCH

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Work Start Grant Amendment 2004

Pursuant to section 124 (1) (d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development and Employment makes the following amendment to the Work Start Grant Programme (as established and approved on 29 June 1999).

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of February 2004.

STEVE MAHAREY, Minister for Social Development and Employment.

Amendment

1. Title—(1) This amendment is the Work Start Grant Amendment 2004.

(2) In this amendment, the Work Start Grant Programme is called "the programme".

2. Commencement—This amendment comes into effect on the day after the date on which it is published in the New Zealand Gazette.

3. Interpretation—Clause 2.1 of the programme is amended by revoking the definition of employment, and substituting the following definition:

"employment" means paid employment, but does not include:

"(a) self-employment; or

"(b) employment as a sex worker or as an operator of a business of prostitution (as those terms are defined in the Prostitution Reform Act 2003); or

"(c) employment in any other occupation of a kind that provides, or directly facilitates the provision of, services:

"(i) for the sexual gratification of one or more other persons; and

"(ii) that are provided for payment or other reward (irrespective of whether the reward is given to the person providing the services or another person)."

4. Amounts of grants—Clause 8 of the programme is amended by revoking clauses 8.1 to 8.2A, and substituting the following clauses:

"8.1 The amount of a grant under clause 5.1 must not exceed:

"(a) $250.00; or

"(b) if the applicant’s specific transition to work expenses are not met by the amount in paragraph (a), that amount and any additional amount (not exceeding $250.00) required to meet those expenses.

"8.2 The chief executive may make more than one grant to an applicant under clause 5.1 in a 52 week period, but the total amount of the grants made in that period must not exceed:

"(a) $250.00; or

"(b) if the applicant’s specific transition to work expenses are not met by the amount in paragraph (a), that amount and any additional amount (not exceeding $250.00) required to meet those expenses.

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the amendment but is intended to explain its general effect.

This amendment to the Work Start Grant Programme (which takes effect on the day after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette):

• Prevents payment of work start grants to people employed in providing sex services, and
• clarifies that the maximum amount of any grant, and of the total of the grants that can be paid in a 52 week period is $250.00, but this amount may be increased by up to $250.00 where it is insufficient to meet an applicant’s specific transition to work expenses as defined in the programme.

Tertiary Education Commission

Education (Tertiary Reform) Amendment Act 2002

Requirements and Exemptions for Profiles 2005-07 for Tertiary Education Organisations

Under sections 159X (1) and 159Y (3) (b) of the Education Act 1989, and section 7 of the Education (Tertiary Reform) Amendment Act 2002, the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) gives the following notice.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as the Education (Profile 2005-07 for Tertiary Education Organisations) Notice 2004.

(2) This notice applies from the date of its publication.

2. Introduction—To access funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for the 2005 year, all tertiary education organisations (TEOs), other than those exempted via this notice, are required to have an approved Profile, as described in section 159W of the Education Act 1989, in place by 15 December 2004 that covers the period 2005-2007. This Profile will be referred to as "Profile 2005-07".

Profiles are multi-purpose documents. They first and foremost “profile” each TEO. That is, a Profile is a TEO’s document that outlines for its students and its other key stakeholders how it will give effect to its Charter and what its contribution in terms of the Tertiary Education Strategy (TES) and Statement of Tertiary Education Priorities (STEP) will be.

Second, Profiles during the process of negotiation and agreement with the TEC, provide a means of identifying and resolving areas of duplication and gaps in delivery and once completed, inform decisions on the allocation of public funding.

Overall, Profiles serve the following purposes, they:

• demonstrate how an organisation will give effect to its Charter;