STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 NO. 110, 1974 STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 NO. 110, 1974 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Short title. 2. Commencement. 3. Citation. 4. Grants to States for building projects in connexion with schools. 5. Schedule. SCHEDULE SCHEDULE 2 SCHEDULE 3 SCHEDULE 4 SCHEDULE 5 SCHEDULE 6 STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SECT 1 Short title. STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110 of 1974 An Act to Increase the Financial Assistance payable to the States in relation to Schools. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:- PART I-PRELIMINARY 1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Schools) Act 1974.* STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SECT 2 Commencement. 2. This Act shall come into operaton on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.* STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SECT 3 Citation. PART II-AMENDMENTS OF STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1972-1973 3. (1) In this Part, the States Grants (Schools) Act 1972-1973* is referred to as the Principal Act. (2) The Principal Act, as amended by this Part, may be cited as the States Grants (Schools) Act 1972-1974. STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SECT 4 Grants to States for building projects in connexion with schools. 4. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended- (a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (3) the words "the second column of the Schedule to this Act" and substituting the words "column 2 of the Schedule"; (b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (3) the words "the third column" and substituting the word and figure "column 3"; and (c) by omitting sub-sections (4) and (5) and substituting the following sub-sections:- "(4) The Minister shall not authorize payments to the States under this Part, in respect of building projects in connexion with government schools, that- (a) in the case of payments authorized on or before 30 June 1975 (including payments authorized before the commencement of the States Grants (Schools) Act 1974)-exceed, in the aggregate, $63,761,500; (b) in the case of payments authorized on or before 30 June 1976-exceed, in the aggregate, $101,247,500; or (c) in the case of payments authorized on or before 30 June 1977-exceed, in the aggregate, $136,247,500. "(5) The Minister shall not authorize payments to the States under this Part, in respect of building projects in connexion with non-government schools, that- (a) in the case of payments authorized on or before 30 June 1975 (including payments authorized before the commencement of the States Grants (Schools) Act 1974)- exceed, in the aggregate, $18,511,500; (b) in the case of payments authorized on or before 30 June 1976-exceed, in the aggregate, $29,222,000; or (c) in the case of payments authorized on or before 30 June 1977-exceed, in the aggregate, $39,222,000.". STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SECT 5 Schedule. 5. The Principal Act is amended by omitting the Schedule and substituting the following Schedule:- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SCHEDULE SCHEDULE Section 8 LIMITS OF GRANTS FOR CAPITAL EXPENDITURE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Maximum Maximum Total Grants for Grants for Maximum Capital Capital Grants Expenditure Expenditure for for Non- Government Government Schools Schools -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,321,000 18,150,500 79,471,500 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,272,500 15,894,500 63,167,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,892,500 7,383,500 31,276,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,458,000 3,076,500 21,534,500 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,048,500 3,589,000 17,637,500 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,255,000 1,128,000 7,383,000 -------------------------------------- 171,247,500 49,222,000 220,469,500 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PART III-AMENDMENTS OF STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1973 Citation. 6. (1) In this Part, the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973* is referred to as the Principal Act. (2) The Principal Act, as amended by this Part, may be cited as the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973-1974. Grants for recurrent expenditure of non-systemic schools. 7. Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended- (a) by inserting before sub-section (1) the following sub-section:- "(1A) In this section, 'period to which this section applies' means- (a) the period of 6 months that commenced on 1 January 1974; (b) the period of 6 months that commenced on 1 July 1974; or (c) the year commencing on 1 January 1975."; (b) by omitting from sub-section (1) the words "year to which this Act applies" and substituting the words "period to which this section applies"; and (c) by omitting sub-section (5) and the table at the foot of that sub-section and substituting the following sub-section and table:- "(5) There is payable (and, in respect of the period of 6 months that commenced on 1 January 1974, there shall be deemed to have been payable) to a State under this section, in respect of each period to which this section applies, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of each non-systemic school in the State- (a) in the case of the period of 6 months that commenced on 1 January 1974- (i) if the school is a non-government primary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 2 of the table set out at the foot of this sub-section opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving primary education at the school on the date in the year that commenced on 1 January 1974 that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and (ii) if the school is a non-government secondary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 3 of the table set out at the foot of this sub-section opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving secondary education at the school on the date in the year that commenced on 1 January 1974 that is the schools census date for that State for that year; (b) in the case of the period of 6 months that commenced on 1 July 1974- (i) if the school is a non-government primary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 4 of the table set out at the foot of this sub-section opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving primary education at the school on the date in the year that commenced on 1 January 1974 that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and (ii) if the school is a non-government secondary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 5 of the table set out at the foot of this sub-section opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving secondary education at the school on the date in the year that commenced on 1 January 1974 that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and (c) in the case of the year commencing on 1 January 1975- (i) if the school is a non-government primary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 6 of the table set out at the foot of this sub-section opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving primary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and (ii) if the school is a non-government secondary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 7 of the table set out at the foot of this sub-section opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving secondary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Column 7 Primary Secondary Primary Secondary schools- schools- schools- schools- Primary Secondary Category of Period of Period of Period of Period of schools- schools- 6 months 6 months 6 months 6 months Year Year school commenced commenced commenced commenced commencing commencing 1 January 1 January 1 July 1 July 1 January 1 January 1974 1974 1974 1974 1975 1975 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ $ $ Category A . . . 27.5 42.5 32 49.5 61 94 Category B . . . 30 45 35 52.5 73 109 Category C . . . 32.5 47.5 38 55.5 79 115 Category D . . . 35 51 41 59.5 91 139 Category E . . . 37.5 55 44 64.5 109 169 Category F . . . 40 60 47 70 127 200 Category G . . . 42.5 65 49.5 76 145 230 Category H . . . 45 70 52.5 82 163 260 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grants for approved special projects. 8. Section 53 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (3) the figures "$6,000,000" and substituting the figures "$7,200,000". Schedules. 9. The Principal Act is amended by omitting the Schedules and substituting the following Schedules:- SCHEDULE 1 Sections 4, 7 and 9 GENERAL BUILDING GRANTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY SCIENCE LABORATORY BUILDING GRANTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Supplementary grants for General General science Totals of Totals of Name of State building building laboratory Columns 3 Columns 2,3 grants for grants for buildings at and 4 and 4 government non-govern- non-govern- schools ment schools ment schools -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . . 37,370,000 5,020,000 720,000 5,740,000 43,110,000 Victoria . . . . . . 29,423,000 6,101,500 320,000 6,421,500 35,844,500 Queensland . . . . . 14,215,500 2,757,500 350,000 3,107,500 17,323,000 South Australia . . . 11,010,000 277,500 70,000 347,500 11,357,500 Western Australia . . 8,419,000 2,453,000 180,000 2,633,000 11,052,000 Tasmania . . . . . . 3,762,000 166,000 40,000 206,000 3,968,000 --------------------------------------------------------- Totals . . . . . . 104,199,500 16,775,500 1,680,000 18,455,500 122,655,000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SCHEDULE 2 SCHEDULE 2 Sections 11, 13 and 15 GRANTS FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE TABLE 1 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Primary Secondary Primary Secondary schools- schools- schools- schools- Year Year Year Year Name of State commenced commenced commencing commencing 1 January 1 January 1 January 1 January 1974 1974 1975 1975 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . 12,478,000 10,834,000 28,399,000 25,858,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,061,000 8,125,000 21,611,000 19,856,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,132,000 3,439,000 12,051,000 8,652,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . 3,618,000 2,321,000 8,216,000 5,699,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . 3,162,000 1,425,000 7,526,000 3,497,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,055,000 727,000 2,408,000 1,694,000 --------------------------------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,506,000 26,871,000 80,211,000 65,256,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE 2 CATHOLIC SYSTEMIC SCHOOLS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Year Year Name of State commenced commencing 1 January 1 January 1974 1975 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,165,000 17,944,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,667,000 15,875,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,242,000 6,897,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,248,000 1,997,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,790,000 2,940,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543,000 859,000 ---------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,655,000 46,512,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SCHEDULE 3 SCHEDULE 3 Sections 17, 20, 22 and 24 GRANTS FOR LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIAN TRAINING TABLE 1 LIBRARIES IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Primary Secondary Name of State schools schools Totals --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,892,000 6,558,000 12,450,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,393,500 5,433,500 9,827,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,531,500 2,144,500 4,676,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,831,500 1,856,000 3,687,500 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,501,000 1,339,000 2,840,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533,000 668,500 1,201,500 ---------------------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,682,500 17,999,500 34,682,000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE 2 LIBRARIES IN NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, INCLUDING SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTS FOR LIBRARY BUILDINGS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Secondary Primary Secondary schools- Totals of Totals of Name of State schools schools Supplementary columns 2 columns 3 grants and 3 and 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . . 1,572,500 1,038,000 480,000 2,610,500 1,518,000 Victoria . . . . . . 1,310,500 964,500 330,000 2,275,000 1,294,500 Queensland . . . . . 660,500 419,500 210,000 1,080,000 629,500 South Australia . . . 262,000 178,000 90,000 440,000 268,000 Western Australia . . 304,000 199,000 120,000 503,000 319,000 Tasmania . . . . . . 84,000 73,500 50,000 157,500 123,500 --------------------------------------------------------- Totals . . . . . . 4,193,500 2,872,500 1,280,000 7,066,000 4,152,500 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE 3 LIBRARIAN TRAINING COURSES AND RELATED TEACHER REPLACEMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Librarian Teacher Name of State training replacement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408,000 1,120,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357,000 967,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161,000 438,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,000 314,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,000 242,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,000 117,000 ---------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,180,000 3,198,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SCHEDULE 4 SCHEDULE 4 Sections 26, 29, 31 and 33 GRANTS FOR DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Building Recurrent Building Recurrent projects- expenditure- projects- expenditure- Catholic Catholic Name of State Government systemic Government systemic disadvantaged disadvantaged disadvantaged disadvantaged schools schools schools schools ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . 10,232,500 1,363,000 7,262,000 1,053,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . 10,444,000 1,814,000 7,270,000 1,269,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . 2,507,000 230,500 2,269,000 191,000 South Australia . . . . . . 2,606,500 314,500 2,031,000 227,000 Western Australia . . . . . 1,314,500 178,000 1,164,000 131,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . 250,500 42,000 461,000 36,000 --------------------------------------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . . 27,355,000 3,942,000 20,457,000 2,907,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SCHEDULE 5 SCHEDULE 5 Sections 35, 37, 39 and 41 GRANTS FOR SPECIAL SCHOOLS TABLE 1 BUILDING PROJECTS IN CONNEXION WITH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Maximum grants -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,443,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,694,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,201,500 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,072,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,777,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657,500 ----------- Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,845,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE 2 RECURRENT EXPENDITURE OF GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Non- Non- Government Government government government Name of State schools-Year schools-Year schools-Year schools-Year Totals commenced commencing commenced commencing 1 January 1 January 1 January 1 January 1974 1975 1974 1975 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ $ New South Wales . 1,595,000 2,710,000 840,000 1,124,000 6,269,000 Victoria . . . . 1,183,000 2,070,000 579,000 799,000 4,631,000 Queensland . . . 666,000 1,150,000 411,000 532,000 2,759,000 South Australia . 435,000 750,000 43,000 73,000 1,301,000 Western Australia 361,000 641,000 55,000 85,000 1,142,000 Tasmania . . . . 146,000 242,000 Nil Nil 388,000 ------------------------------------------------------------ Totals . . . . 4,386,000 7,563,000 1,928,000 2,613,000 16,490,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE 3 SPECIAL EDUCATION TRAINING COURSES AND RELATED TEACHER REPLACEMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Special Name of State education Teacher training replacement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450,000 3,386,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403,000 2,902,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188,000 1,325,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,000 946,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,000 714,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,000 339,000 ---------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,304,000 9,612,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - SCHEDULE 6 SCHEDULE 6 Sections 44, 47 and 49 GRANTS IN RESPECT OF TEACHER DEVELOPMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Recurrent In-service Buildings- expenditure- Name of State Teacher Teachers' Teachers' Training Education Education Centres Centres -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,116,000 587,000 216,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,683,000 440,500 167,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,247,000 293,500 107,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883,000 293,500 107,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 674,000 293,500 107,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316,000 147,000 60,000 -------------------------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,919,000 2,055,000 764,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1974 No. 110, 1974 - NOTES NOTES 1. Act No. 110, 1974; assented to 3 December 1974. 2. Act No. 108, 1972, as amended by No. 214, 1973. 3. Act No. 214, 1973.