Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1973 No. 214, 1973 - SECT 4

PART II-GENERAL BUILDING GRANTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY SCIENCE LABORATORY
BUILDING GRANTS
4. (1) Subject to this section, the Minister may authorize the payment to a
State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State, of such
amounts as he determines in respect of building projects in connexion with
government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State.

(2) The Minister shall not, after the period to which this Act applies,
authorize the payment of an amount to a State under this section unless he is
satisfied that the amount will be applied for the purpose of meeting
commitments undertaken during that period.

(3) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under this section
that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 1
opposite to the name of the State.

(4) At any time, and from time to time, during the period to which this Act
applies, but subject to sub-section (5), provision may be made by the
regulations that this Act has effect as if some or all of the amounts
specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite to the names of States were
varied in accordance with the regulations, and, where provision is so made
with respect to the variation of any such amounts, then, for the purposes of
this Act (including this sub-section and sub-section (5) ), there shall be
deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencement of
this Act), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

(5) Regulations made for the purposes of sub-section (4) shall not provide for
the variation of any amounts specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite to
the names of States in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of
the amounts specified in that column is greater or less than the total
specified at the foot of that column.