Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1976 No. 35, 1976 - SECT 4

4. Where-

   (a)  the students, or a substantial number of the students, at a school are
        members of a community which is, for social, economic, ethnic,
        geographic, cultural or lingual reasons, or for similar reasons, of
        such a kind that the capacity of the students to take advantage of
        educational opportunities ordinarily available at schools in the
        relevant State is below average;

   (b)  in the case of a government school, the State Education Minister for
        the relevant State informs the Commonwealth Education Minister that
        the students, or a substantial number of the students, at the school
        are members of such a community; and

   (c)  the Commonwealth Education Minister is of the opinion, in the case of
        either a government school or a non-government school, that the school
        should, for any of the reasons referred to in paragraph (a), be
        treated as a disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act, the
        Commonwealth Education Minister may declare the school to be a
        disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act.