STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1983 NO. 119 of 1983 States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS PART I-PRELIMINARY 1. Short title 2. Commencement 3. Interpretation 4. Schools and areas with respect to which special provision is made, &c. 5. Determination of levels of funding for eligible new arrivals PART II-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PROGRAMS 6. Grants for building projects and equipment projects in connection with government schools 7. Limits on grants under section 6 8. Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with government schools 9. Limits on grants under section 8 10. Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with general education in English as a second language provided in connection with government schools 11. Limits on grants under section 10 12. Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided in connection with government schools 13. Grants for expenditure in connection with government disadvantaged schools 14. Limits on grants under section 13 15. Grants for expenditure in connection with special education at government schools, &c. 16. Limits on grants under section 15, &c. 17. Grants for expenditure in connection with programs of computer education at government schools, &c. 18. Limits on grants under section 17 19. Additional conditions to which grants of financial assistance under Part subject &c. PART III-NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PROGRAMS 20. Approval of building projects and equipment projects in connection with non-government schools 21. Grants for building projects and equipment projects in connection with non-government schools 22. Limits on grants under section 21, &c. 23. Grants for recurrent expenditure of systemic schools 24. Grants for recurrent expenditure of non-systemic schools 25. Limit on additional grants for schools in need of short-term emergency assistance 26. Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with general education in English as a second language provided in connection with systemic schools 27. Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with general education in English as a second language provided in connection with non-systemic schools 28. Limits on grants under sections 26 and 27 29. Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided in connection with systemic schools 30. Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided in connection with non-systemic schools 31. Grants for expenditure of systemic disadvantaged schools 32. Grants for expenditure of non-systemic disadvantaged schools 33. Limits on grants under sections 31 and 32 34. Grants for expenditure in connection with special education at non-government schools, &c. 35. Limits on grants under section 34 36. Approval of programs of computer education in connection with non-government schools 37. Grants for programs of computer education in connection with systemic schools 38. Grants for programs of computer education in connection with non-systemic schools 39. Limits on grants under sections 37 and 38 40. Additional condition to which grants of financial assistance under Part subject, &c. PART IV-SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTS FOR BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS AT SCHOOLS SERVING PREDOMINANTLY ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES 41. Approval of building projects and equipment projects in connection with schools serving predominantly Aboriginal communities 42. Grants for building projects and equipment projects in connection with schools serving predominantly Aboriginal communities 43. Limits on grants under section 42 PART V-JOINT GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PROGRAMS 44. Grants for recurrent expenditure with multicultural education 45. Limits on grants under section 44 46. Approval of multicultural education projects of national significance 47. Grants for expenditure in relation to approved multicultural education projects of national significance 48. Limit on grants under section 47 49. Approval of bodies as approved ethnic schools authorities 50. Approval of programs of ethnic education and determination of levels of funding 51. Grants for approved programs of ethnic education 52. Grants for expenditure in connection with the education of students receiving primary education or secondary education in prescribed country areas 53. Limits on grants under section 52 54. Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with the education of children residing in residential institutions 55. Limits on grants under section 54 56. Approval of programs for education of severely handicapped children 57. Grants for expenditure in relation to approved programs for education of severely handicapped children 58. Limits on grants under section 57 59. Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities 60. Limits on grants under section 59 61. Grants for expenditure of approved education centres 62. Limit on grants under section 61 63. Approval of projects or programs of national significance 64. Grants for expenditure in relation to projects or programs of national significance 65. Limit on grants under section 64 66. Additional conditions to which grants of financial assistance under Part subject &c. PART VI-MISCELLANEOUS 67. Minister may fix amounts, and times of payments, of financial assistance 68. Amounts repayable by the States to the Commonwealth 69. Advances 70. Variation of Schedules 6 and 11 71. Payments to be made out of Consolidated Revenue Fund or Loan Fund 72. Authority to borrow 73. Application of moneys borrowed 74. Reimbursement of Consolidated Revenue Fund from Loan Fund 75. Appropriation 76. Delegation by Minister 77. Determinations to be in writing, &c. 78. Report by Minister 79. Regulations PART VII-AMENDMENTS OF STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1982 80. Principal Act 81. Determination of levels of funding for eligible new arrivals 82. Grants for expenditure in connection with special education at non-government schools, &c. 83. Grants for approved programs of ethnic education 84. Schedules 85. Directions under the Principal Act SCHEDULE 1 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS SCHEDULE 2 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-RECURRENT EXPENDITURE SCHEDULE 3 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-GENERAL EDUCATION IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE SCHEDULE 4 DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS AND PRESCRIBED COUNTRY AREAS SCHEDULE 5 SPECIAL EDUCATION (INCLUDING INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES) SCHEDULE 6 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-COMPUTER EDUCATION SCHEDULE 7 NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS SCHEDULE 8 RECURRENT EXPENDITURE-LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SCHEDULE 9 NON-SYSTEMIC SCHOOLS-SUPPLEMENTARY ESTABLISHMENT GRANTS SCHEDULE 10 MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS SCHEDULE 11 NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-COMPUTER EDUCATION SCHEDULE 12 MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION SCHEDULE 13 RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SEVERELY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN SCHEDULE 14 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE 15 NEW SCHEDULES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 AND 11 TO BE INSERTED IN STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1982 States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 1 Short title. and the Northern Territory for and in relation to schools, and other matters (Assented to 21 December 1983) PART I-PRELIMINARY Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 2 Commencement 2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 3 Interpretation 3. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears- ''approved education centre'' means an education centre approved by the Minister under sub-section 4 (6); ''approved ethnic schools authority'' means a body approved by the Minister under section 49; ''approved professional development activities'' means- (a) in-service teacher training; (b) inquiries into the feasibility of providing support services for government schools and non-government schools in a State, or the planning of such support services; or (c) activities the purpose of which is to improve communication and understanding between teachers at government schools and teachers at non-government schools in a State, other persons employed at, or associated with the administration of, those schools, and students, and parents of students, at, and other members of the community interested in education at, those schools; ''approved school system'' means a school system in a State, or in a part of a State, that consists of non-government schools and that the Minister declares to be an approved school system for the purposes of this Act; ''building'' includes part of a building; ''building project'' includes- (a) the investigation of the need for- (i) schools, or schools of particular kinds, in a State or a part of a State; or (ii) a building or other facilities; (b) the purchase of land, with or without buildings; (c) the planning, erection, alteration or extension of a building or other facilities; (d) the development or preparation of land for building or other purposes; and (e) the installation of water, electricity or other services; ''certificate by an authorized person'', in relation to a condition contained in a section of this Act that requires a certificate to be furnished by a State to the Commonwealth Education Minister, means a certificate signed by the person authorized by the State Education Minister for the State to sign that certificate; ''certificate by a qualified accountant'' means a certificate signed by- (a) a person who is registered as a company auditor or a public accountant under a law in force in a State or Territory; (b) a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia or the Australian Society of Accountants; or (c) a person approved by the Minister as a qualified accountant for the purposes of this Act; ''child'' includes young person; ''co-educational school'' means a school the students at which comprise, or, in the case of a proposed school, are to comprise, both male students and female students; ''commencing day'' means the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent; ''Commonwealth Education Minister'' means the Minister; ''Commonwealth Schools Commission'' means the Commonwealth Schools Commission established by the Commonwealth Schools Commission Act 1973; ''disadvantaged school'' means- (a) a government school in a State that the State Education Minister for the State notifies the Commonwealth Education Minister, under sub-section 4 (1), is a school that should, in the opinion of the State Education Minister, be treated as a disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act; or (b) a non-government school in a State that the Minister declares, under sub-section 4 (2), to be a disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act; ''developing area'' means a geographical area that is, in accordance with criteria determined under sub-section (20), a developing area for the purposes of this Act; ''education centre'' means a body corporate, or a body of persons that the Minister is satisfied will, during the year 1984, become a body corporate- (a) the members, or a majority of the members, of the governing body of which are persons employed as teachers at government schools or non-government schools; (b) the sole or principal object of which is to improve the professional competence of teachers by methods that include the provisions of in-service teacher training; and (c) which is not conducted for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals; ''education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals'' means education that is provided for the purpose of teaching, by means of intensive instruction, the English language to eligible new arrivals; ''eligible new arrival'' means a person whose first language is a language (not being the English language) of a country other than Australia and who arrived in Australia after 31 July 1983; ''equipment project'' means a project for or in relation to the provision of equipment, library material or furniture and includes a project for obtaining services or goods relating to the cataloguing of a library; ''general education in English as a second language'' means education that is provided- (a) for the purpose of teaching the English language to students whose first language is a language other than the English language; and (b) for the purpose of giving instruction to those students and other students in relation to the culture of peoples of the Aboriginal race of Australia or of peoples who have migrated to Australia; ''government centre'' means a centre in a State providing special education that is conducted by or on behalf of the Government of the State; ''government disadvantaged school'' means a government primary school, or a government secondary school, that is a disadvantaged school; ''government primary school'' means- (a) a government school at which primary education is provided or a proposed government school at which primary education is to be provided; or (b) in the case of a government school at which primary education, and also education other than primary education, are provided-that school in so far as it provides primary education; ''government school'' means a school in a State that is conducted, or proposed to be conducted, by or on behalf of the Government of the State; ''government secondary school'' means- (a) a government school at which secondary education is provided or a proposed government school at which secondary education is to be provided; or (b) in the case of a government school at which secondary education, and also education other than secondary education, are provided-that school in so far as it provides secondary education; ''in-service teacher training'' means teacher training of persons in employment as teachers at government schools or non-government schools; ''integration activities'' means activities the purpose of which is to integrate handicapped children into schools, or other places of education approved by the Minister for the purposes of this definition, at which education is provided for children other than handicapped children; ''library material'' includes books, periodicals, computer software, newspapers, films, sound recordings, musical scores, maps, plans, pictures, photographs and prints; ''multicultural education'' means education, not being education contained in a program of ethnic education, that- (a) is provided for students attending government schools or non-government schools; and (b) is designed to take account of the culture of peoples of the Aboriginal race of Australia or of peoples who have migrated to Australia, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, education that is provided by way of instruction in languages (other than the English language) spoken by those peoples; ''non-government centre'' means a centre in a State providing special education that is not conducted by or on behalf of the Government of the State, but does not include a centre conducted for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals; ''non-government disadvantaged school'' means a school that is a systemic disadvantaged school or a non-systemic disadvantaged school; ''non-government primary school'' means- (a) a non-government school in a State at which primary education is provided or a proposed non-government school in a State at which primary education is to be provided; or (b) in the case of a non-government school at which primary education, and also education other than primary education, are provided-that school in so far as it provides primary education; ''non-government school'' means a school in a State that is not conducted, or proposed to be conducted, by or on behalf of the Government of the State, but does not include a school conducted, or proposed to be conducted, for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals; ''non-government secondary school'' means- (a) a non-government school in a State at which secondary education is provided or a proposed non-government school in a State at which secondary education is to be provided; or (b) in the case of a non-government school at which secondary education, and also education other than secondary education, are provided-that school in so far as it provides secondary education; ''non-systemic disadvantaged school'' means a non-systemic school that is a disadvantaged school; ''non-systemic school'' means a non-government primary school, or a non-government secondary school, that is not a systemic school; ''peoples of the Aboriginal race of Australia'' includes peoples of the race to which Torres Strait Islanders belong; ''prescribed country area'' means an area in a State that the State Education Minister for the State notifies the Commonwealth Education Minister, under sub-section 4 (4), is an area that should, in the opinion of the State Education Minister, be treated as a prescribed country area for the purposes of this Act; ''prescribed special education'' means education under special programs designed specifically for handicapped children, being children in a State who have not attained the age at which children are required by a law of that State to attend school, other than such education conducted- (a) by, or on behalf of, a State; or (b) for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals; ''previous schools assistance Act'' means the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982 or any other Act that came into operation before the commencing day and provided, or provides, for the granting of financial assistance to the States, or to the States and the Northern Territory, for and in relation to schools; ''primary education'', in relation to a non-government school in a State, means education of a kind similar to that provided for students at government primary schools in the State; ''program of computer education'' means a program designed for all or any of the following purposes: (a) to train teachers in the use of computers, including but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the use of computers as teaching aids; (b) to assist students to acquire an understanding of computer technology and of the social, environmental, industrial and economic effects of computers; (c) to increase the access of disadvantaged persons to computers; ''program of ethnic education'' means a program of instruction, on a part-time basis, the purpose of which is to teach students undertaking the program a language (not being the English language) that is the first language of peoples of the Aboriginal race of Australia or of peoples who have migrated to Australia, either alone or together with cultural instruction related to people speaking that language as their first language, other than such a program in which political or religious instruction is predominant; ''recurrent expenditure'' means expenditure other than capital expenditure; ''residential institution'' means an institution or home in a State that (whether or not it is an institution or home at which primary education or secondary education is also provided) provides residential care for children and is conducted for welfare, correctional or similar purposes, being an institution or home that the Commonwealth Education Minister, having regard to any advice furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister by the State Education Minister for the State in relation to the institution or home, declares to be a residential institution for the purposes of this Act; ''school'' includes a proposed school, or an institution or proposed institution similar to a school, but does not include- (a) a school or institution at which education is provided at a standard (however described) that is pre-school standard only or a proposed school or institution at which it is proposed that education be provided at a standard (however described) that is pre-school standard only; or (b) where the State Education Minister for a State notifies the Commonwealth Education Minister that a specified school or institution in the State is not recognized by the State Education Minister as a school and the Commonwealth Education Minister does not approve the school or institution as a school for the purposes of this Act-that school or institution; ''school in need of short-term emergency assistance'' means a school that the Minister declares, under sub-section 4 (5), to be a school in need of short-term emergency assistance for the purposes of this Act; ''school serving a predominantly Aboriginal community'' means a school that the Minister declares, under sub-section 4 (7), to be a school serving a predominantly Aboriginal community for the purposes of this Act; ''schools census date'', in relation to a State, means the date in the year 1984 as at which the Australian Statistician compiles statistics in relation to the numbers of students in schools in the State; ''secondary education'', in relation to a non-government school in a State, means education of a kind similar to that provided for students at government secondary schools in the State; ''severely handicapped child'' means- (a) a handicapped child in a State to whom paragraph (b) does not apply, being a child- (i) for whom, by reason of his disability, enrolment at a school, at a government centre or at a non-government centre, is not appropriate; or (ii) who is enrolled at a school, at a government centre or at a non-government centre but who cannot receive, by reason of his disability, a substantial proportion of the benefits ordinarily available to children enrolled at that school or centre; or (b) a handicapped child in a State who has not attained the age at which children are required by a law of that State to attend school, being a child- (i) for whom, by reason of his disability, when he attains that age, enrolment at a school, at a government centre or at a non-government centre will not be, or will be unlikely to be, appropriate; (ii) who, if when he attains that age he is enrolled at a school, at a government centre or at a non-government centre, will not receive, or will be unlikely to receive, by reason of his disability, a substantial proportion of the benefits ordinarily available to children enrolled at such a school or centre; ''special education'' means education under special programs designed specifically for handicapped children; ''State Education Minister'' means- (a) in relation to a State-the Minister of the Crown of the State who is responsible, or principally responsible, for the administration of matters relating to primary education and secondary education in the State; and (b) in relation to the Northern Territory-the Minister of the Northern Territory who is responsible, or principally responsible, for the administration of matters relating to primary education and secondary education in the Northern Territory; ''student'' means- (a) in relation to a program of ethnic education- (i) a person who is undertaking either on a full-time basis or on a part-time basis, primary education or secondary education at a government school or a non-government school; or (ii) a person (other than a person referred to in sub-paragraph (i) or a person who has attained, or will, before 1 January 1985, attain, the age of 20 years) who is undertaking, either on a full-time basis or on a part-time basis, technical and further education within the meaning of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977 at an institution that is a technical and further education institution within the meaning of that Act; or (b) in any other case-a full-time student; ''systemic disadvantaged school'' means a systemic school that is a disadvantaged school; ''systemic school'' means a non-government primary school, or a non-government secondary school, that is included in an approved school system and that the Minister declares, under this section, to be a systemic school for the purposes of this Act; ''the year 1984'' means the year commencing on 1 January 1984. (2) A reference in this Act to a State shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as including a reference to the Northern Territory and a reference in this Act to a Territory shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as not including a reference to the Northern Territory. (3) References in this Act to government primary schools, government secondary schools, non-government primary schools, non-government secondary schools, systemic schools and non-systemic schools shall not be taken, by reason of the express references in this Act to special education, as not including references to such schools at which special education is provided. (4) A reference in this Act to a building project shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as including a reference to a project that is in part a building project and in part an equipment project. (5) Unless the contrary intention appears- (a) references in this Act to government primary schools and to government secondary schools shall not be taken, by reason of the express references in this Act to government disadvantaged schools and to residential institutions, as not including references to disadvantaged schools and residential institutions that are government primary schools or government secondary schools; (b) references in this Act to non-government primary schools and to non-government secondary schools shall not be taken, by reason of the express references in this Act to non-government disadvantaged schools and to residential institutions, as not including references to disadvantaged schools and residential institutions that are non-government primary schools or non-government secondary schools; (c) references in this Act to systemic schools shall not be taken, by reason of the express references in this Act to systemic disadvantaged schools and to residential institutions, as not including references to disadvantaged schools and residential institutions that are systemic schools; and (d) references in this Act to non-systemic schools shall not be taken, by reason of the express references in this Act to non-systemic disadvantaged schools and to residential institutions, as not including references to disadvantaged schools and residential institutions that are non-systemic schools. (6) For the purposes of this Act, where, immediately before the commencing day, a declaration was in force for the purposes of the definition of ''approved school system'' or ''residential institution'' in sub-section 3 (1) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, the declaration shall, on and after that day, be deemed to be a declaration made under this Act for the purposes of the definition of ''approved school system'' or ''residential institution'', as the case requires, in sub-section (1) of this section. (7) For the purposes of this Act, where, immediately before the commencing day, an approval was in force for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of ''certificate by a qualified accountant'' in sub-section 3 (1) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, the approval shall, on and after that day, be deemed to be an approval given under this Act for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of ''certificate by a qualified accountant'' in sub-section (1) of this section. (8) For the purposes of this Act, the reference in paragraph (b) of the definition of ''building project'' in sub-section (1) to the purchase of land, with or without buildings, shall, in relation to building projects in connection with non-government primary schools and non-government secondary schools, be read as including a reference to the taking on lease of land or buildings. (9) For the purposes of this Act, where, immediately before the commencing day, a declaration was in force for the purposes of the definition of ''systemic school'' in sub-section 3 (1) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, in respect of a school, that school shall, on and after 1 January 1984, be deemed to have been declared under this section to be a systemic school unless the Minister- (a) is satisfied that the school has undergone a substantial change in its character by reason of- (i) a change in the location of the school that has resulted, or is likely to result, in a substantially different body of students attending the school; or (ii) the provision or proposed provision at the school of education at a level other than a level at which education was provided when the school was last declared, or deemed to have been declared, under the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982 to be a systemic school, not being education provided in accordance with a plan for the development of the school that was publicly announced at the time of its establishment; and (b) by notice in writing, given, before 1 January 1984, to the person or body declared, for the purposes of section 23, to be the approved authority of the approved school system in which the school is included, informs that authority that the Minister proposes to reconsider the declaration of the school as a systemic school. (10) Where the approved authority in relation to an approved school system receives a notice under paragraph (9) (b) in relation to a school included in that system, the approved authority may make such submissions, in writing, to the Minister as the approved authority considers appropriate. (11) Where the Minister is satisfied, in respect of a school that is situated in a State and included in an approved school system, being- (a) a school- (i) in relation to which a notice has been served under paragraph (9) (b); or (ii) in relation to which there was no declaration in force for the purposes of the definition of ''systemic school'' in sub-section 3 (1) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982 immediately before the commencing day; or (b) if a school referred to in paragraph (a) provides education at more than one level-that school in so far as it provides education at a particular level, that- (c) the school has been recognized as a school by the State Education Minister of the State; (d) the school is not conducted for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals; (e) the school has been the subject of adequate consultation with education authorities of the State; (f) if the school is, or is to be, situated in an area other than a developing area-the school is not likely to have a significant adverse effect upon the viability of the existing government or non-government schools (if any) in that first-mentioned area; and (g) the school has reasonable prospects of long term viability, the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare the school, or the school in so far as it provides education at that level, to be a systemic school for the purposes of this Act. (12) The Minister shall, as soon as practicable after 31 December 1983, cause a list of systemic schools to be published in the Gazette. (13) For the purposes of this Act- (a) where moneys have been applied for a purpose, being the purpose of meeting expenditure of a particular kind, the moneys shall not be treated as having been applied for that purpose in pursuance of a condition specified in a section of this Act that requires a State to ensure that an amount is applied for that purpose- (i) if the moneys have been treated by the State, or will be treated by the State, as having been applied for that purpose in pursuance of a condition specified in another section of this Act that also requires the State to ensure that an amount is applied for that purpose; or (ii) if the moneys were applied for that purpose in pursuance of a condition subject to which financial assistance was granted to the State under a previous schools assistance Act; and (b) where moneys have been applied for a purpose, being the purpose of meeting expenditure of a particular kind, the moneys shall not be treated as having been applied for that purpose in pursuance of a condition of a relevant agreement between the Commonwealth and an approved authority- (i) if the moneys have been treated by the approved authority, or will be treated by the approved authority, as having been applied for that purpose in pursuance of another condition of that agreement, or of a condition of another relevant agreement between the Commonwealth and the approved authority, that also requires the approved authority to ensure that an amount is applied for that purpose; or (ii) if the moneys were applied for that purpose in pursuance of a condition of an agreement between the State and the approved authority, being an agreement made for the purposes of a condition subject to which financial assistance was granted to the State under a previous schools assistance Act. (14) In sub-section (13), a reference to a relevant agreement between the Commonwealth and an approved authority shall be read as an agreement made between the Commonwealth and an approved authority for the purposes of the condition specified in paragraph 21 (2) (b), 23 (9) (b), 24 (9) (b), 26 (2) (b), 27 (2) (b), 29 (2) (b), 30 (2) (b), 31 (2) (b), 32 (2) (b), 34 (3) (c), 37 (2) (b), 38 (2) (b), 42 (3) (b), 51 (2) (b) or 61 (2) (b). (15) In sub-sections (13) and (14), a reference to an approved authority shall be read as a reference to the approved authority of a non-government school, the approved authority of an approved school system, the approved authority of a non-systemic school, the approved authority of a non-government centre, the governing body of an approved education centre or an approved ethnic schools authority, as the case requires. (16) For the purposes of this Act, a building project or equipment project that has been, is being or is to be carried out for purposes connected with a school, an approved education centre or the education of certain students shall be treated as a building project or equipment project in connection with the school, the approved education centre or the education of those students, as the case may be, notwithstanding that it is also being carried out for other educational purposes or for community purposes. (17) Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in a provision of this Act to an approved authority, in relation to an approved school system, a non-government school, a non-systemic school or a non-government centre shall be read as a reference to a person or body that the Minister declares to be the approved authority of that school system, of that school or of that centre, as the case may be, for the purposes of that provision. (18) Where- (a) a co-educational school is organized on the basis that one or more of the levels of education provided at that school is or are available only to students of one sex; and (b) a particular project or program in connection with the school or particular expenditure of the school relates solely or principally to a level of education of the kind referred to in paragraph (a), the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the project, program or expenditure, as the case requires, shall not be taken, for the purposes of this Act, not to be equally available to male students and female students at the school. (19) Where- (a) the benefits of, or the opportunities created by, a particular project or program or particular expenditure, would not, but for this sub-section, be equally available to male students and female students or to male children and female children; and (b) an object of the project, program or expenditure is to secure the adequate advancement of persons of one sex who require special assistance in order to ensure that persons of that sex have equal opportunities with persons of the other sex in connection with education or training, the benefits of, or the opportunities created by, the project, program or expenditure as the case requires shall not be taken, for the purposes of this Act, not to be equally available to male students and female students or to male children or female children, as the case may be. (20) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette determine criteria for the identification of a geographical area as a developing area for the purposes of this Act. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 4 Schools and areas with respect to which special provision is made, &c. 4. (1) Where- (a) the students, or a substantial number of the students, at a government school in a State are members of a community that 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 State is below average; and (b) the State Education Minister for the State is of the opinion that- (i) 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; and (ii) the total number of students at that school, and at other schools in the State that are, or may become, government disadvantaged schools, is not, and will not, at any time during the year 1984, be, greater than the number of students that the Commonwealth Education Minister has, under sub-section (3), informed the State Education Minister is the approved maximum number of students in relation to government disadvantaged schools in that State in respect of that year, the State Education Minister may notify the Commonwealth Education Minister that the school should, in the opinion of the State Education Minister, be treated as a disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act. (2) Where- (a) the students, or a substantial number of the students, at a non-government school in a State are members of a community that 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 State is below average; and (b) the Commonwealth Education Minister is of the opinion 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. (3) As soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act, the Commonwealth Education Minister shall determine, in relation to each State, the number of students that is, for the purposes of sub-section (1), the approved maximum number of students in relation to government disadvantaged schools in the State in respect of the year 1984, and shall notify the State Education Minister of that number. (4) Where, in the opinion of the State Education Minister for a State, a country area of the State should be treated as a prescribed country area by reason that the students, or a substantial number of the students, receiving primary education or secondary education in the area would benefit from- (a) programs of education designed to alleviate educational disadvantages arising from the restricted access of the students to social and cultural activities and to educational services; or (b) experimental programs of education designed to improve the ways of providing educational services to students in country areas, the State Education Minister may notify the Commonwealth Education Minister that the area should, in the opinion of the State Education Minister, be treated as a prescribed country area for the purposes of this Act. (5) Where the Minister is of the opinion that a non-government school in a State is, by reason of some unexpected event or circumstance or a sudden economic decline in the locality in which the school is situated, in special need of short-term emergency assistance, the Minister may declare the school to be a school in need of short-term emergency assistance for the purposes of this Act. (6) Where the Minister is satisfied that the membership of an education centre is not restricted to teachers or teachers of a particular kind and the centre provides opportunities for parents of students at schools, and other persons interested in education, to take part in, and to assist in, activities of the centre, the Minister may approve the education centre for the purposes of this Act. (7) Where the Minister is of the opinion that a school in a State serves a community constituted predominantly by peoples of the Aboriginal race of Australia, the Minister may declare the school to be a school serving a predominantly Aboriginal community for the purposes of this Act. (8) Where, immediately before the commencing day, a government school in a State was a disadvantaged school within the meaning of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, by virtue of a notification under sub-section 4 (1) of that Act, the State Education Minister for the State shall, on that day, be deemed to have notified the Commonwealth Education Minister under sub-section (1) of this section that the school should, in the opinion of the State Education Minister, be treated as a disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act. (9) For the purposes of this Act, where, immediately before the commencing day, a declaration was in force for the purposes of sub-section 4 (2) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, the declaration shall, on and after that day, be deemed to be a declaration made under sub-section (2) of this section. (10) For the purposes of this Act, where, immediately before the commencing day, an approval was in force for the purposes of sub-section 4 (7) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, the approval shall, on and after that day, be deemed to be an approval given under sub-section (6) of this section. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 5 Determination of levels of funding for eligible new arrivals 5. For the purposes of sections 12, 29 and 30, the Minister shall determine an amount (not exceeding $862) to be the level at which financial assistance is to be provided under those sections in respect of each eligible new arrival receiving education in English as a second language. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 6 Grants for building projects and equipment projects in connection with government schools PART II-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PROGRAMS 6. (1) Subject to section 7, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in relation to building projects and equipment projects in connection with government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the conditions that- (a) the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken, or to be undertaken, not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to building projects and equipment projects in connection with government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State, other than projects the sole or principal object, or one of the principal objects, of which is to provide housing or other residential accommodation in any capital city for teachers or other staff; and (b) if, at or before the time of the payment of an amount of financial assistance to the State under this section, the Minister determines that so much of that amount as is represented by a specified amount is to be taken to have been paid to the State for a specified prescribed purpose (in this section referred to as a ''designated amount'' in relation to that prescribed purpose), the State will ensure that- (i) in the application, as mentioned in paragraph (a), of the amount first referred to in that paragraph, not less than so much of that last-mentioned amount as is equal to the sum of the designated amounts in relation to a prescribed purpose is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting expenditure that relates to the prescribed purpose; and (ii) in the application, as mentioned in paragraph (a), of so much of the amount first referred to in that paragraph as is equal to the sum of the designated amounts in relation to the prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of ''prescribed purpose'' in sub-section (7)-not more than the prescribed maximum amount is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting expenditure in relation to any particular school that relates to that prescribed purpose. (3) The sum of the designated amounts that are determined by the Minister under paragraph (2) (b) to have been paid to a State in relation to a particular prescribed purpose shall not exceed the amount specified opposite to the name of the State in whichever of columns 3, 4, 5 or 6 of Schedule 1 relates to that prescribed purpose. (4) Subject to sub-section 3 (13), a State may, for the purposes of this section, treat amounts that have been applied by the State after 30 September 1983 and before the commencing day, for the purpose of meeting expenditure in relation to a building project or equipment project in connection with a government primary school or a government secondary school in the State, as having been so applied by the State after that day. (5) The Minister shall not authorize a payment to a State under sub-section (1) unless and until the Commonwealth Education Minister is satisfied that arrangements have been made in accordance with which- (a) the State will, at such times as the Commonwealth Education Minister and the appropriate Minister of the State agree are appropriate, give to the Commonwealth Education Minister particulars of the projects to which the State, at the time at which it gives the particulars, proposes to apply, or has applied, amounts for the purposes of sub-section (2); and (b) the State will ensure that recognition of the extent to which projects to which the State proposes to apply, or has applied, amounts for those purposes are attributable to funds provided by the Commonwealth will be given in ways, and at times, agreed to by the Minister and the appropriate Minister of the State. (6) Without limiting the generality of the expression ''building projects and equipment projects in connection with government primary schools and government secondary schools'' in this section, that expression includes a project the sole or principal object of which is to provide hostel accommodation for students at those schools. (7) In this section- ''prescribed maximum amount'', in relation to a school, means- (a) unless the school is a school included in a class of schools referred to in paragraph (b)-$150,000; or (b) if the school is included in a class of schools determined by the Minister for the purposes of this paragraph-such amount in excess of $150,000 as the Minister specifies in the determination in relation to that class; ''prescribed purpose'' means a building or equipment project- (a) in connection with the renovation or replacement of facilities at a government school other than a proposed government school, not being a project the effect of which is, or is likely to be, to create additional places at that school; (b) the sole or principal object of which is to provide library facilities or library services at a government school; (c) the sole or principal object of which is to provide facilities for handicapped children in government schools; or (d) in connection with the provision of secondary education at a government school, not being a project the effect of which is or is likely to be, to create additional places at that school. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 7 Limits on grants under section 6 7. (1) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under sub-section 6 (1) that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 7 of Schedule 1 opposite to the name of the State. (2) At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1984, but subject to sub-section (3), the Minister may direct that this Act shall have effect as if some or all of the amounts specified in column 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 of Schedule 1 opposite to the names of States were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of those amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section) there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule, as from the commencing day, in substitution for those amounts, those amounts as so varied. (3) A direction given under sub-section (2) shall not provide for a variation of any amounts specified in column 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 of Schedule 1 in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified in column 7 opposite to the names of States is greater or less than the total amount for all the States specified in that column. (4) As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under sub-section (2), the Minister shall cause a statement setting out particulars of the direction to be laid before each House of the Parliament. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 8 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with government schools 8. (1) Subject to section 9, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State, according to the respective needs of government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State, for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with those schools. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 9 Limits on grants under section 8 9. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 8 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 opposite to the name of the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 10 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with general education in English as a second language provided in connection with government schools 10. (1) Subject to section 11, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with government schools in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with government schools in the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 11 Limits on grants under section 10 11. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 10 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 3 opposite to the name of the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 12 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided in connection with government schools 12. (1) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with government schools in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines, being amounts that do not exceed, in the aggregate, an amount equal to the product of the amount that is determined by the Minister under section 5 to be the level at which financial assistance is to be provided in respect of each eligible new arrival receiving education in English as a second language and the number of eligible new arrivals who will receive that education provided at or in connection with government schools in the State. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the conditions that- (a) the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of courses commencing in 1984, in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with government schools in the State; and (b) the State will ensure that each eligible new arrival for whom a course of that education is provided, commencing in that year at or in connection with a government school in the State- (i) enrolled in the course before 1 May 1984 or before the date occurring 6 months after the date of his arrival in Australia, whichever is the later date; (ii) at the time of enrolling in the course, is undertaking, or has an intention to undertake either before or as soon as practicable after his completion of the course, primary education or secondary education at a government school or non-government school; and (iii) if he arrived in Australia before 1 November 1983-did not undertake, or commence to undertake, in Australia, a course similar to that course before that date. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 13 Grants for expenditure in connection with government disadvantaged schools 13. (1) Subject to section 14, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in connection with government disadvantaged schools in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting- (a) recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with government disadvantaged schools in the State; or (b) expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to minor building projects, or minor equipment projects, in connection with government disadvantaged schools in the State, being projects- (i) the total expenditure in relation to each of which is, or will be, less than $30,000; or (ii) that are approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 14 Limits on grants under section 13 14. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 13 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 4 opposite to the name of the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 15 Grants for expenditure in connection with special education at government schools, &c. 15. (1) Subject to section 16, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in connection with special education provided at or in connection with government schools or government centres in the State or other special education provided by, or on behalf of, the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with special education provided at or in connection with government schools or government centres in the State or other special education provided by, or on behalf of, the State and, in particular, will ensure that such part of that amount as is not less than the amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State is so applied in connection with integration activities conducted at government schools in the State or places of education approved by the Minister for the purposes of the definition of ''integration activities'' in sub-section 3 (1) at which special education is provided by, or on behalf of, the State. (3) For the purposes of sub-section (2), financial assistance applied by a State for the purpose of meeting expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to minor building projects, or minor equipment projects, in connection with integration activities conducted at government schools in the State or places referred to in sub-section (2), being projects- (a) the total expenditure in relation to each of which is, or will be, less than $30,000; or (b) that are approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section, shall be deemed to be financial assistance that has been applied by that State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in connection with such integration activities. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 16 Limits on grants under section 15, &c. 16. (1) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 15 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State. (2) At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1984, but subject to sub-section (3), the Commonwealth Education Minister may, at the request of the State Education Minister for a State, direct that this Act shall have effect as if the amounts specified in columns 2 and 4 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Commonwealth Education Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of those amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule, as from the commencing day, in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied. (3) A direction given under sub-section (2) in relation to a State shall not provide for the variation of any amounts in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified in columns 2 and 4 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State is greater or less than the aggregate of the amounts specified in those columns opposite to the name of the State immediately before the giving of the direction. (4) As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under sub-section (2), the Minister shall cause a statement setting out particulars of the direction to be laid before each House of the Parliament. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 17 Grants for expenditure in connection with programs of computer education at government schools, &c. 17. (1) A State may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Minister a program of computer education that is being, or is to be, provided at or in connection with government schools in the State. (2) The Minister may approve a program submitted under sub-section (1) as an approved program of computer education in respect of one or more years to which this section applies. (3) Nothing in this Act shall be taken to imply that a program of computer education may not be approved by the Minister under this section and also under section 36. (4) Subject to section 18, where the Minister approves a program submitted by a State as an approved program of computer education in respect of a year to which this section applies, the Minister may authorize the payment to the State under this section, by way of financial assistance, in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of that year in connection with the approved program provided at or in connection with government schools in that State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of a year is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in respect of that year in connection with a program approved in respect of that year that is provided at or in connection with government schools in that State. (6) In this section, a reference to a year to which this section applies is a reference to the year commencing on 1 January 1984, the year commencing on 1 January 1985 or the year commencing on 1 January 1986. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 18 Limits on grants under section 17 18. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under sub-section 17 (4) in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with the provision of approved programs in respect of a year that exceeds, in the aggregate, the amounts specified opposite to the name of that State in the column of Schedule 6 that relates to that year. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 19 Additional conditions to which grants of financial assistance under Part subject 19. (1) Financial assistance is granted to a State under section 6 on the additional condition that the State will cause to be furnished to the Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Minister approves)- (a) a certificate by an authorized person to the effect that the person has satisfied himself that the condition specified in paragraph 6 (2) (a) has been fulfilled in relation to that financial assistance; and (b) a statement, in accordance with a form approved by the Minister, that specifies- (i) the projects (not including a project the total expenditure in relation to which was less than $30,000) in relation to which the amount applied by the State in pursuance of the condition specified in paragraph 6 (2) (a) in its application to that financial assistance has been applied, the amount so applied in relation to each of those projects and the total of those amounts; and (ii) the amount applied by the State in pursuance of the condition specified in paragraph 6 (2) (a) in its application to that financial assistance in relation to projects the total expenditure in relation to each of which was less than $30,000. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under section 8, 10, 12, 13, 15 or 17 on the additional condition that the State will cause to be furnished to the Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Minister approves in relation to the grant)- (a) a certificate by an authorized person to the effect that the person has satisfied himself that the condition or conditions specified in sub-section 8 (2), 10 (2), 12 (2), 13 (2), 15 (2) or 17 (5), as the case may be, has or have been fulfilled; and (b) a statement, in accordance with a form approved by the Minister, that summarizes, in respect of government schools, the manner in which the amount applied by the State in pursuance of the conditions or condition so specified has been so applied. (3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under section 10, 12, 13, 15 or 17 on the additional condition that, if a State has established, or proposes to establish, a committee of persons (by whatever name described) for the sole or principal purpose of providing advice in respect of the distribution of financial assistance granted under one or more of those sections, the State Education Minister will, before making any appointment or further appointment to that committee, consult the Commonwealth Education Minister with respect to the criteria for making appointments to that committee. (4) Financial assistance is granted to a State under a section contained in this Part on the additional conditions that the State will- (a) ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of the amount of that financial assistance as is applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure to which that financial assistance relates, being expenditure in connection with co-educational schools in the State, are as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at those schools; and (b) cause to be furnished to the Minister a statement in writing setting out such information with respect to the fulfillment of the condition specified in paragraph (a) as is required by the Minister to be so furnished. (5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under a section contained in this Part on the additional condition that, if the State does not fulfil a condition specified in this Part with respect to that grant, the State will, if the Minister so determines, repay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that section) as the Minister specifies in the determination as the amount that should be repaid by the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 20 Approval of building projects and equipment projects in connection with non-government schools PART III-NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PROGRAMS 20. (1) For the purposes of section 21, the Minister may, subject to this section, approve building projects and equipment projects in connection with non-government primary schools, and building projects and equipment projects in connection with non-government secondary schools, in a State. (2) Where the Minister approves a building project or equipment project under sub-section (1), the Minister may, in the instrument of approval, specify- (a) a prescribed purpose in relation to which that project is so approved; and (b) the maximum amount to be paid under section 21 in respect of that project. (3) The Minister shall not, in exercising powers conferred under sub-section (1) to approve building projects and equipment projects in connection with non-government schools in a State- (a) approve projects, being projects in relation to which a particular prescribed purpose is specified, the maximum amounts specified in relation to which exceed, in the aggregate, the amount set out in the column of Schedule 7 that relates to that State and to that prescribed purpose; or (b) approve a project in connection with a particular school, being a project in relation to which the prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of ''prescribed purpose'' in sub-section (5) is specified unless the maximum amount specified in respect of that project, or the aggregate of the maximum amount so specified and the maximum amount or maximum amounts (if any) specified in relation to any other project approved in connection with that school, being a project in relation to which that prescribed purpose is specified, does not exceed the prescribed maximum amount in relation to that school. (4) A project shall not be approved under sub-section (1) if- (a) the project is in connection with a co-educational school and the Minister is of the opinion that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the project will not, as far as practicable, be equally available to male students and female students at the school; or (b) the sole or principal object, or one of the principal objects, of the project is- (i) to provide housing or other residential accommodation for teaching or other staff; or (ii) to provide facilities for use, wholly or principally, for or in relation to religious worship. (5) In this section- ''prescribed maximum amount'', in relation to a school, means- (a) unless the school is a school included in a class of schools referred to in paragraph (b)-$150,000; or (b) if the school is included in a class of schools determined by the Minister for the purposes of this paragraph-such amount in excess of $150,000 as the Minister specifies in the determination in relation to that class; ''prescribed purpose'' means a building or equipment project- (a) in connection with the renovation or replacement of facilities at a non-government school other than a proposed non-government school, not being a project the effect of which is, or is likely to be, to create additional places at that school; (b) the sole or principal object of which is to provide library facilities or library services; or (c) in connection with the provision of secondary education at a non-government school, not being a project the effect of which is, or is likely to be, to create additional places at that school. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 21 Grants for building projects and equipment projects in connection with non-government schools 21. (1) Subject to section 22, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in relation to a project approved under section 20, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure in relation to a project approved under section 20 (being a building project or an equipment project in connection with a non-government school in the State) on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the project, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment in relation to the project made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for the State to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project is applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to the project; (ii) the approved authority will consult with the Commonwealth Education Minister for the purpose of determining appropriate methods of giving public recognition of the funding provided for the project by the Commonwealth; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (within a period of 3 months after the date of completion of the project or within such further period as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; (iv) the approved authority will comply with such other conditions (if any) as are specified in the approval of the project under section 20; (v) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii), (iii) or in accordance with sub-paragraph (iv), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority; and (c) where the total expenditure in relation to the project is, or will be, not less than $30,000, the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for the State to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the condition that, if, within the prescribed period relating to the project- (i) an asset (being land, a building or equipment) in respect of which an amount paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project was expended ceases to be used; (ii) such an asset ceases to be used principally for an approved purpose; or (iii) the approved authority sells or otherwise disposes of such an asset to a person, other than the State, for use principally for an approved purpose without the person having entered or entering into an agreement with the Commonwealth, under which that person has the same obligations in relation to the asset as the approved authority had by virtue of this paragraph before the sale or other disposal of the asset, the approved authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so requires, pay to the Commonwealth the amount ascertained in AB accordance with the formula ----, where- C A is the total amount paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project that was expended in respect of the relevant asset; B is the number of years in the prescribed period that are years that had not commenced before the relevant asset ceased to be used, ceased to be used for such a purpose or was so sold or otherwise disposed of, as the case requires; and C is the number of years in the prescribed period. (3) In paragraph (2) (c)- ''approved purpose'', in relation to an asset, means- (a) the purpose for which the asset was intended to be used when, under section 20, the Commonwealth Education Minister approved the project relating to the asset; or (b) a purpose approved by the Commonwealth Education Minister; ''prescribed period'', in relation to a project approved under section 20, means- (a) except where paragraph (b) applies-the period of 20 years commencing on the day on which the project is completed; or (b) if, at the time when the Commonwealth Education Minister approved the project, he declared that a period of a lesser number of years commencing on that day was to be the prescribed period in relation to the project-that lesser period. (4) Subject to sub-section 3 (13), the approved authority of a non-government school may, for the purposes of this section, treat amounts that have been applied before the commencing day, for the purpose of meeting expenditure in relation to a project approved under section 20, as having been so applied after that day. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 22 Limits on grants under section 21, &c. 22. (1) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 21 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 6 of Schedule 7 opposite to the name of the State. (2) Where a maximum amount is specified under sub-section 20 (2) in relation to a project, the Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 21, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in relation to the project, of amounts that exceed, in the aggregate, that maximum amount. (3) At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1984, but subject to sub-section (4), the Minister may direct that this Act has effect as if some or all of the amounts specified in column 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of Schedule 7 opposite to the names of States were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of those amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule, as from the commencing day, in substitution for those amounts, those amounts as so varied. (4) A direction given under sub-section (3) shall not provide for the variation of any amounts specified in column 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of Schedule 7 in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified in that column 6 opposite to the names of States is greater or less than the total amount for all the States specified in that column. (5) As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under sub-section (3), the Minister shall cause a statement setting out particulars of the direction to be laid before each House of the Parliament. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 23 Grants for recurrent expenditure of systemic schools 23. (1) Until the Minister causes to be published in the Gazette a list of approved school systems in accordance with sub-section (2), references in this section to the list of approved school systems shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as references to- (a) the list published in accordance with sub-section 21 (2) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, or that list as varied under that Act before the commencing day; or (b) if the list referred to in paragraph (a) is varied on or after the commencing day under sub-section (3), (5) or (6), that list as so varied. (2) The Minister may cause to be published in the Gazette the list referred to in paragraph (1) (a) or, if that list is varied under sub-section (3), (5) or (6) on or after the commencing day and before the publication of that list in the Gazette, that list as so varied, and, if the Minister does so, references in this section to the list of approved school systems shall then, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as references to the list so published or, if the list so published is varied under sub-section (3), (5) or (6), to the list as so published and so varied. (3) The Minister may, from time to time, vary the list of approved school systems for the purpose of adding to it school systems that are declared by the Minister to be approved school systems for the purposes of this Act and, if the Minister makes such a variation, the Minister shall, in respect of each such approved school system, specify, in the instrument of variation, the level, being a level of assistance set out in column 1 of Schedule 8, at which financial assistance is to be provided under this section to the approved school system for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the approved school system in respect of the year 1984. (4) The Minister shall, in determining for the purposes of sub-section (3) the level at which financial assistance is to be provided under this section to an approved school system for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the approved school system in respect of the year 1984, have regard to the need of the approved school system for such assistance. (5) The Minister may, having regard to any change in the need of an approved school system for financial assistance under this section for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the approved school system in respect of the year 1984, vary the list of approved school systems by specifying, in the instrument of variation, in respect of the approved school system a different level, being a level of assistance set out in column 1 of Schedule 8, at which financial assistance is to be provided under this section to the approved school system for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the approved school system in respect of the year 1984. (6) The Minister may vary the list of approved school systems for the purpose of correcting clerical errors or making alterations of a formal kind. (7) The Minister shall cause a copy of any variation to the list of approved school systems made under sub-section (3), (5) or (6) to be published in the Gazette. (8) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved school system in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines, being amounts that do not exceed, in the aggregate, the sum of the following amounts: (a) an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 8 opposite to the level of assistance in column 1 of that Schedule that is the level of assistance specified in the list of approved school systems in relation to the school system and the number of students receiving primary education at systemic schools in the school system on the date (in paragraph (b) referred to as the ''census date'') that is the schools census date for the State or is such other date as the Minister, in special circumstances, determines in relation to the school system; (b) an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 8 opposite to the level of assistance in column 1 of that Schedule that is the level of assistance specified in the list of approved school systems in relation to the school system and the number of students receiving secondary education at systemic schools in the school system on the census date; (c) if any of the systemic schools in the school system are schools in need of short-term emergency assistance, an amount equal to such amount as the Minister, subject to section 25, determines to be the amount of additional assistance to be provided to the school system for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with those last-mentioned schools; (d) if primary education or secondary education is provided at any systemic school in the school system for part-time students as well as for full-time students, an amount equal to such amount (if any) as the Minister determines to be the amount of financial assistance to be provided to the school system for the purposes of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with those part-time students. (9) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved school system in the State on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school system an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the approved school system, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied, according to the respective needs of systemic schools in the school system, for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of those schools, and of the approved authority in respect of those schools, in such proportions as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines, and, in particular, will ensure that such part of that amount as is not less than the amount determined by the Commonwealth Education Minister under paragraph (8) (c) in relation to the school system is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with such of those schools as are schools in need of short-term emergency assistance; (ii) the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of that amount as is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of co-educational schools, and of the approved authority in respect of those schools, are, as far as practicable, equally available to male and female students at those schools; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of recurrent expenditure of the systemic schools in the school system, and of the approved authority in respect of those schools, and such other financial and statistical information in respect of those schools and the approved authority, as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 24 Grants for recurrent expenditure of non-systemic schools 24. (1) A reference in this section, on and after 1 January 1984, to the list of non-systemic schools shall, subject to this section, be read as a reference to- (a) the list of non-systemic schools in force for the purposes of section 22 of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982 immediately before the commencing day, as varied by the exclusion of a school in respect of which the Minister- (i) is satisfied that the school has undergone a substantial change in its character by reason of- (A) a change in the location of the school that has resulted or, is likely to result, in a substantially different body of students attending the school; or (B) the provision or proposed provision at the school of education at a level other than a level at which education was provided when the school was included in that last-mentioned list, not being education provided in accordance with a plan for the development of the school that was publicly announced at the time of its establishment; and (ii) by notice in writing given before 1 January 1984 to the approved authority of the school, informs that authority that the Minister proposes to reconsider the inclusion of the school in the list of non-systemic schools; or (b) if the list referred to in paragraph (a) is varied on or after the commencing day under sub-section (3), (6) or (7), that list as so varied. (2) Where the approved authority in relation to a school received a notice under sub-paragraph (1) (a) (ii) in relation to the school, the approved authority may make such submissions, in writing, to the Minister as the approved authority considers appropriate. (3) Where the Minister is satisfied, in respect of a non-systemic school that is situated in a State, being- (a) a school- (i) in relation to which a notice has been served under sub-paragraph (1) (a) (ii); or (ii) that was not included in the list of non-systemic schools in force for the purposes of section 22 of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982 immediately before the commencing day; or (b) if a school referred to in paragraph (a) provides education at more than one level-that school in so far as it provides education at a particular level, that- (c) the school has been recognized as a school by the State Education Minister of the State; (d) the school is not conducted for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals; (e) the school has been the subject of adequate consultation with education authorities of the State; (f) if the school is, or is to be, situated in an area other than a developing area-the school is not likely to have a significant adverse effect upon the viability of the existing government or non-government schools (if any) in that first-mentioned area; and (g) the school has reasonable prospects of long term viability, the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, vary the list of non-systemic schools by adding to it that school, or that school in so far as it provides education at that level, and, if the Minister makes such an addition, the Minister shall in respect of the school so added, specify in the notice of variation the level, being a level of assistance set out in column 1 of Schedule 8, at which financial assistance is to be provided under this section to the school for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the school in respect of the year 1984. (4) The Minister shall, in determining for the purposes of sub-section (3) the level at which financial assistance is to be provided under this section to a school for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the school in respect of the year 1984, have regard to the need of the school for such assistance. (5) The Minister shall, as soon as practicable after 31 December 1983, cause the list of non-systemic schools, in a form approved by the Minister for the purposes of this sub-section, to be published in the Gazette. (6) The Minister may, having regard to any change in the need of a school for financial assistance under this section for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the school in respect of the year 1984, vary the list of non-systemic schools by specifying, in the instrument of variation, in respect of the school a different level, being a level of assistance set out in column 1 of Schedule 8, at which financial assistance is to be provided under this section to the school for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the school in respect of the year 1984. (7) The Minister may vary the list of non-systemic schools for the purpose of correcting clerical errors or making alterations of a formal kind. (8) The Minister shall cause a copy of any variation to the list of non-systemic schools made under sub-section (6) or (7) to be published in the Gazette. (9) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of a non-systemic school situated in a State, being a school that is included in the list of non-systemic schools, of such amounts as the Minister determines, being amounts that do not exceed, in the aggregate, the sum of the following amounts: (a) an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 8 opposite to the level of assistance in column 1 of that Schedule that is the level of assistance specified in the list of non-systemic schools in relation to the school and the number of students receiving primary education at the school on the date (in paragraphs (b) and (c) referred to as the ''census date'') that is the schools census date for that State or is such other date as the Minister, in special circumstances, determines in relation to the school; (b) an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 8 opposite to the level of assistance in column 1 of that Schedule that is the level of assistance specified in the list of non-systemic schools in relation to the school and the number of students receiving secondary education at the school on the census date; (c) if the school came or comes into existence (otherwise than by virtue of its ceasing to be a systemic school) in a year specified in column 1 of Schedule 9, an amount equal to the sum of the following amounts: (i) an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 2 of that Schedule opposite to that year and the number of students receiving primary education at the school on the census date; (ii) an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 3 of that Schedule opposite to that year and the number of students receiving secondary education at the school on the census date; (d) if the school is a school in need of short-term emergency assistance, an amount equal to such amount as the Minister, subject to section 25, determines to be the amount of additional assistance to be provided to the school for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of the school; (e) if primary education or secondary education is provided at the school for part-time students as well as for full-time students, an amount equal to such amount (if any) as the Minister determines to be the amount of assistance to be provided to the school for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with those part-time students. (10) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure of a non-systemic school in the State on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the approved authority, has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of the school; (ii) if the school is a co-educational school-the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to that amount for the purposes of that expenditure of the school, are as far as practicable, equally available to male and female students at the school; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of recurrent expenditure of the school, and such other financial and statistical information in respect of the school, as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 25 Limit on additional grants for schools in need of short-term emergency assistance 25. The amounts determined by the Minister under paragraph 23 (8) (c) in relation to systemic schools, and the amounts determined by the Minister under paragraph 24 (9) (d) in relation to non-systemic schools, shall not exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 1 of Schedule 10. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 26 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with general education in English as a second language provided in connection with systemic schools 26. (1) Subject to section 28, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with systemic schools in the school system, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with systemic schools in the school system on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school system an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the approved school system, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of those schools, and of the approved authority in respect of those schools, in such proportions as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines, in connection with general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with those schools; (ii) the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of that amount as is applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure of that kind, being expenditure of co-educational schools, and of the approved authority in respect of those schools, are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at those schools; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement in writing, that contains such information in respect of general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with any systemic school or schools in the school system as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 27 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with general education in English as a second language provided in connection with non-systemic schools 27. (1) Subject to section 28, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of a non-systemic school in the State in connection with general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with the school, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure of a non-systemic school in the State in connection with general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with the school on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes to the State Education Minister for the State a certificate to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of the school in connection with general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with the school; (ii) if the school is a co-educational school-the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to that amount for the purposes of that expenditure of the school are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at the school; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement in writing, that contains such information in respect of general education in English as a second language provided at or in connection with the school as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 28 Limits on grants under sections 26 and 27 28. The Minister shall not authorize payments to the States under sections 26 and 27 that exceed in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 10. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 29 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided in connection with systemic schools 29. (1) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with systemic schools in the school system, of such amounts as the Minister determines, being amounts that do not exceed, in the aggregate, an amount equal to the product of the amount that is determined by the Minister under section 5 to be the level at which financial assistance is to be provided in respect of each eligible new arrival receiving education in English as a second language and the number of eligible new arrivals who will receive that education provided at or in connection with systemic schools in that school system. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with systemic schools in the school system on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school system an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school system, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes to the State Education Minister for the State a certificate to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of courses commencing in 1984, of those schools, and of the approved authority in respect of those schools, in such proportions as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines, in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with those schools; (ii) the approved authority will ensure that each eligible new arrival for whom a course of that education is provided, commencing in that year, at or in connection with a systemic school in the approved school system- (A) enrolled in the course before 1 May 1984 or before the date occurring 6 months after the date of his arrival in Australia, whichever is the later date; (B) at the time of enrolling in the course, is undertaking, or has an intention to undertake either before or as soon as practicable after his completion of the course, primary education or secondary education at a government school or non-government school; and (C) if he arrived in Australia before 1 November 1983-did not undertake, or commence to undertake, in Australia, a course similar to that course before that date; (iii) the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of that amount as is applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure of the kind referred to in sub-paragraph (b) (i), being expenditure of co-educational schools, and of the approved authority in respect of those schools, are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at those schools; (iv) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with any systemic school or schools in the approved school system as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (v) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 30 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided in connection with non-systemic schools 30. (1) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of a non-systemic school in the State in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with the school, of such amounts as the Minister determines, being amounts that do not exceed, in the aggregate, an amount equal to the product of the amount that is determined by the Minister under section 5 to be the level at which financial assistance is to be provided in respect of each eligible new arrival receiving education in English as a second language and the number of eligible new arrivals who will receive that education provided at or in connection with the school. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure of a non-systemic school in the State in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with the school on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister has furnished to the State Education Minister for the State a certificate to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of courses commencing in 1984, of the school in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with the school; (ii) the approved authority will ensure that each eligible new arrival for whom a course of that education is provided, commencing in that year, at or in connection with the school- (A) enrolled in the course before 1 May 1984 or before the date occurring 6 months after the date of his arrival in Australia, whichever is the later date; (B) at the time of enrolling in the course, is undertaking, or has an intention to undertake either before or as soon as practicable after his completion of the course, primary education or secondary education at a government school or non-government school; and (C) if he arrived in Australia before 1 November 1983-did not undertake, or commence to undertake, in Australia, a course similar to that course before that date; (iii) if the school is a co-educational school-the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to that amount for the purposes of that expenditure of the school are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at the school; (iv) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with the school as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (v) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 31 Grants for expenditure of systemic disadvantaged schools 31. (1) Subject to section 33, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with any systemic disadvantaged school or schools in the school system, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with any systemic disadvantaged school or schools in the school system on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school system an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school system, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the approved authority, before or at the time of accepting the first payment under this section, has agreed or agrees with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting- (A) recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of that systemic disadvantaged school or those systemic disadvantaged schools, and of the approved authority in respect of that school or those schools, in such proportions as the Minister determines; or (B) expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to minor building projects, or minor equipment projects, in connection with that systemic disadvantaged school or those systemic disadvantaged schools, being projects that are approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section; (ii) the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of that amount as is applied for the purposes of expenditure of the kind referred to in sub-sub-paragraph (i) (A), being expenditure in connection with a co-educational school or co-educational schools, are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at the school or schools; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of any systemic disadvantaged school or schools in the school system as is required by the Minister to be so furnished; (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the authority will, if the Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater that the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. (3) A project shall not be approved under sub-sub-paragraph (2) (b) (i) (B) if the project is in connection with a co-educational school and the Minister is of the opinion that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the project will not, as far as practicable, be equally available to male students and female students at the school. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 32 Grants for expenditure of non-systemic disadvantaged schools 32. (1) Subject to section 33, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure of a non-systemic disadvantaged school in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure of a non-systemic disadvantaged school in a State on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the approved authority has agreed or agrees with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting- (A) recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of the school; or (B) expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to minor building projects, or minor equipment projects, in connection with the school, being projects that are approved by the Commonwealth Education Minister for the purposes of this section; (ii) if the school is a co-educational school-the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to that amount for the purposes of expenditure referred to in sub-sub-paragraph (i) (A) of the school, are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at the school; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of the school as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. (3) A project shall not be approved under sub-sub-paragraph (2) (b) (i) (B) if the project is in connection with a co-educational school and the Minister is of the opinion that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the project will not, as far as practicable, be equally available to male students and female students at the school. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 33 Limits on grants under sections 31 and 32 33. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under sections 31 and 32 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 4 opposite to the name of the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 34 Grants for expenditure in connection with special education at non-government schools, &c. 34. (1) In this section ''prescribed authority'' means a person who or body that- (a) provides prescribed special education; and (b) has been approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section. (2) Subject to section 35, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in connection with special education provided at or in connection with a non-government school or non-government centre in the State or prescribed special education provided in the State by a prescribed authority, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure in connection with special education provided at or in connection with a non-government school or non-government centre in the State on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (c), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school or centre an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school or centre, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; (b) where the payment of an amount referred to in paragraph (a) is made to the approved authority of a school, the State will, in making the payment, specify the part (if any) of that amount that is paid in connection with integration activities conducted at the school; (c) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority of the school or centre under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with special education provided at or in connection with the school or centre and, in particular, the approved authority, where it is an approved authority of a school, will ensure that an amount that is not less than the part (if any) of those amounts so paid to the approved authority that is specified as having been paid in connection with integration activities conducted at the school is so applied in connection with those integration activities; (ii) if a payment is made in relation to a co-educational school-the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to that amount for the purposes of meeting expenditure of that school of the kind referred to in sub-paragraph (c) (i) are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at the school; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of special education provided at or in connection with the school or centre as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the approved authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. (4) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure in connection with prescribed special education provided by a prescribed authority on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (c), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the prescribed authority an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the prescribed authority, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the prescribed authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; (b) where the payment of an amount referred to in paragraph (a) is made to a prescribed authority in relation to the provision of prescribed special education at a place of education approved by the Minister for the purposes of the definition of ''integration activities'' in sub-section 3 (1), the State will, in making the payment, specify the part (if any) of that amount that is paid in connection with integration activities conducted at that place; (c) the State will not make a payment to a prescribed authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the prescribed authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the prescribed authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the prescribed authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with prescribed special education provided by it and, in particular, the prescribed authority, where it provides prescribed special education at a place referred to in paragraph (b), will ensure that an amount that is not less than the part (if any) of those amounts so paid to the prescribed authority that is specified as having been paid in connection with integration activities conducted at that place is so applied in connection with those integration activities; (ii) the prescribed authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement in writing that contains such information in respect of prescribed special education provided by the special educator as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; and (iii) if the prescribed authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii), the prescribed authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the prescribed authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the prescribed authority. (5) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the additional condition that the State will ensure that the total of all amounts specified by the State, for the purposes of paragraphs (3) (b) and (4) (b), in connection with integration activities conducted by the approved authorities of schools in the State or conducted by prescribed authorities at places referred to in paragraph (4) (b) in the State is not less than the amount specified in column 5 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State. (6) For the purposes of sub-section (3), and of any agreement referred to in paragraph (3) (c), between the Commonwealth and the approved authority of a school in a State, an amount applied by way of expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to minor building projects, or minor equipment projects, in connection with integration activities conducted at the school, being projects that are approved by the Minister for the purposes of this sub-section, shall be deemed to be an amount applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in connection with such integration activities. (7) For the purposes of sub-section (4), and of any agreement referred to in paragraph (4) (c), between the Commonwealth and a prescribed authority which conducts a place referred to in paragraph (4) (b), an amount applied by way of expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to minor building projects, or minor equipment projects, in connection with integration activities conducted at that place, being projects that are approved by the Minister for the purposes of this sub-section, shall be deemed to be an amount applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in connection with such integration activities. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 35 Limits on grants under section 34 35. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 34 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 4 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 36 Approval of programs of computer education in connection with non-government schools 36. (1) An approved authority in relation to an approved school system or to a non-systemic school may, from time to time, submit for the approval of the Minister a program of computer education that is being, or is to be, provided at or in connection with systemic schools in that approved school system, or at or in connection with that non-systemic school. (2) The Minister may approve a program submitted under sub-section (1) as an approved program of computer education in respect of one or more of the years to which this section applies. (3) In this section, a reference to a year to which this section applies is a reference to the year commencing on 1 January 1984, the year commencing on 1 January 1985 or the year commencing on 1 January 1986. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 37 Grants for programs of computer education in connection with systemic schools 37. (1) Subject to section 39, where the Minister approves, under section 36, a program submitted by an approved authority in relation to an approved school system in a State as an approved program of computer education in respect of a year, the Minister may authorize the payment to the State, by way of financial assistance, in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of that year of an approved school system in the State in connection with the provision of that program at or in connection with systemic schools in that school system, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of a year of an approved school system in connection with the provision of a program of computer education approved in respect of that year at or in connection with systemic schools in the school system on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school system an amount equal to the amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school system, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of that year, of those schools, and of the approved authority in respect of those schools, in connection with the provision of the program at or in connection with those schools; (ii) the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of that amount as is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of that year, in connection with the provision of the program at or in connection with co-educational schools in the school system are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at those schools; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June next following the expiration of that year or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of the operation of the program at or in connection with schools in the school system as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; and (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in respect of that program and of that year) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 38 Grants for programs of computer education in connection with non-systemic schools 38. (1) Subject to section 39, where the Minister approves, under section 36, a program submitted by an approved authority in relation to a non-systemic school in a State as an approved program of computer education in respect of a year the Minister may authorize the payment to the State, by way of financial assistance, in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of that year of that non-systemic school in connection with the provision of that program at or in connection with that school, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of a year of a non-systemic school in connection with the provision of an approved program of computer education approved in respect of that year at or in connection with the school on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school an amount equal to the amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school, and, in making the payments will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes to the State Education Minister for the State a certificate to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of that year, of the school in connection with the provision of the program at or in connection with the school; (ii) if the school is a co-educational school-the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to that amount for the purposes of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of that year, in connection with the provision of the program at or in connection with the school are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at the school; (iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June next following the expiration of that year or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) have been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of the operation of the program at or in connection with the school as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; and (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in respect of that program and of that year) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 39 Limits on grants under sections 37 and 38 39. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 37 or 38 in respect of a year that exceeds, in the aggregate, the amount specified opposite to the name of that State in the column of Schedule 11 that relates to that year. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 40 Additional condition to which grants of financial assistance under Part subject, &c. 40. (1) Financial assistance granted to a State under a section contained in this Part is granted on the additional condition that if the State does not fulfil a condition specified in the section under which the financial assistance is granted, the State will, if the Minister so determines, repay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that section in respect of the non-government school, approved school system, non-government centre or prescribed authority) as the Minister specifies in the determination as the amount that should be repaid by the State. (2) Nothing in this Act shall be taken to authorize the recovery by the Commonwealth, in respect of financial assistance granted to a State under a section contained in this Part, of any amount from that State or of any amount under an agreement entered into for the purpose of a condition specified in that section in respect of that financial assistance, if the aggregate of that amount and any amount previously recovered from that State in respect of that financial assistance, or previously recovered under such an agreement entered into in relation to that financial assistance would exceed, in the aggregate, the amount of that financial assistance. (3) In sub-section (1), ''prescribed authority'' has the same meaning as it has in section 34. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 41 Approval of building projects and equipment projects in connection with schools serving predominantly Aboriginal communities PART IV-SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTS FOR BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS AT SCHOOLS SERVING PREDOMINANTLY ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES 41. (1) For the purposes of section 42, the Minister may, subject to sub-section (2) of this section, approve building projects and equipment projects in connection with schools serving predominantly Aboriginal communities in a State. (2) A project shall not be approved under sub-section (1) if- (a) the project is in connection with a co-educational school and the Minister is of the opinion that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the project will not, as far as practicable, be equally available to male students and female students at the school; or (b) the sole or principal object, or one of the principal objects, of the project is to provide facilities for use, wholly or principally, for or in relation to religious worship. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 42 Grants for building projects and equipment projects in connection with schools serving predominantly Aboriginal communities 42. (1) Subject to section 43, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in relation to a project approved under section 41, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Where a project approved under section 41 is a project in connection with a government school, financial assistance granted to a State under sub-section (1) in respect of that project is granted on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section in respect of that project is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to that project. (3) Where a project approved under section 41 is a project in connection with a non-government school, financial assistance granted to a State under sub-section (1) in respect of that project is granted on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the project, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment in relation to the project made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; (b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority of the school under this section in relation to the projects unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes to the State Education Minister for the State a certificate to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project is applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to the project; (ii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (within a period of 3 months after the date of completion of the project or within such further period as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; (iii) the approved authority will comply with such other conditions (if any) as are specified in the approval of the project under section 41; (iv) if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) or in accordance with sub-paragraph (iii), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the approved authority; and (c) where the total expenditure in relation to the project is, or will be, not less than $30,000, the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for the State to the effect that the approved authority has entered into an agreement with the Commonwealth to be bound by the condition that, if, within the prescribed period relating to the project- (i) an asset (being land, a building or equipment) in respect of which an amount paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project was expended ceases to be used; (ii) such an asset ceases to be used principally for an approved purpose; or (iii) the approved authority sells or otherwise disposes of such an asset to a person, other than the State, for use principally for an approved purpose without the person having entered or entering into an agreement with the Commonwealth, under which that person has the same obligations in relation to the asset as the approved authority had by virtue of this paragraph before the sale or other disposal of the asset, the approved authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so requires, pay to the Commonwealth the amount ascertained in accordance with AB the formula ----, where- C A is the total paid to the approved authority under this section in relation to the project that was expended in respect of the relevant asset; B is the number of years in the prescribed period that are years that had not commenced before the relevant asset ceased to be used, ceased to be used for such a purpose or was so sold or otherwise disposed of, as the case requires; and C is the number of years in the prescribed period. (4) Financial assistance granted to a State under this section in relation to a project approved under section 41 is granted on the additional condition that if the State does not fulfil a condition specified in whichever of sub-section (2) or (3) relates to that financial assistance, the State will, if the Minister so determines, repay to the Commonwealth such amount, not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts of that financial assistance as the Minister specifies in the determination as the amount that should be repaid by the State. (5) Nothing in this Act shall be taken to authorize the recovery by the Commonwealth in respect of financial assistance granted to a State under this section in respect of a project approved under section 41 in connection with a non-government school of any amount from that State or of any amount under an agreement entered into for the purposes of a condition specified in sub-section (3) in respect of that financial assistance if the aggregate of that amount and any amount previously recovered from that State in respect of that financial assistance, or previously recovered under such an agreement entered into in relation to that financial assistance would exceed, in the aggregate, the amount of that financial assistance. (6) Subject to sub-section 3 (13), a State or the approved authority of a non-government school may, for the purposes of this section, treat amounts that have been applied before the commencing day, for the purpose of meeting expenditure in relation to a project approved under section 41, as having been so applied after that day. (7) In paragraph (3) (c)- ''approved purpose'', in relation to an asset, means- (a) the purpose for which the asset was intended to be used when, under section 41, the Commonwealth Education Minister approved the project relating to the asset; or (b) a purpose approved by the Commonwealth Education Minister; ''prescribed period'', in relation to a project approved under section 41, means- (a) except where paragraph (b) applies-the period of 20 years commencing on the day on which the project is completed; or (b) if, at the time when the Commonwealth Education Minister approved the project, he declared that a period of a lesser number of years commencing on that day was to be the prescribed period in relation to the project-that lesser period. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 43 Limits on grants under section 42 43. The Minister shall not authorize payments to the States under section 42 that exceed, in the aggregate- (a) in relation to projects approved in connection with government schools-$5,061,000; and (b) in relation to projects approved in connection with non-government schools-$2,024,000. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 44 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with multicultural education PART V-JOINT GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PROGRAMS 44. (1) Subject to section 45, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with multicultural education provided in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with multicultural education provided in the State. (3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on condition that the State will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of that financial assistance as is applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure of the kind referred to in sub-section (1) being expenditure in connection with co-educational schools in the State, are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at those schools. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 45 Limits on grants under section 44 45. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 44 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Part I of Schedule 12 opposite to the name of the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 46 Approval of multicultural education projects of national significance 46. (1) Where- (a) a project is being, or is to be, carried out in Australia with the sole or principal object of promoting multicultural education in Australia; and (b) the Minister is of the opinion that the project is of national significance and that it is desirable that assistance in connection with the project be provided under section 47, the Minister may approve the project for the purposes of that section. (2) A reference in this section to multicultural education shall be read as including a reference to education in English as a second language. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 47 Grants for expenditure in relation to approved multicultural education projects of national significance 47. (1) Subject to section 48, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in relation to a project that is being, or is to be, carried out by or in the State and has been approved under section 46 (including a project that is being, or is to be, carried out together with, or as part of, a project that is being, or is to be, carried out by or in another State or by the Commonwealth or in a Territory), of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure in relation to a project on the conditions that- (a) the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, for the purpose of meeting expenditure in relation to the project; and (b) the State will cause to be furnished to the Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Minister approves) a certificate by an authorized person to the effect that the person has satisfied himself that the condition specified in paragraph (a) has been fulfilled. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 48 Limit on grants under section 47 48. The Minister shall not authorize payments to the States under section 47 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in Part II of Schedule 12. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 49 Approval of bodies as approved ethnic schools authorities 49. Where the Minister is satisfied that a body, whether incorporated or unincorporated, is providing, or proposes to provide, a program of ethnic education, the Minister may approve that body as an approved ethnic schools authority for the purposes of this Act. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 50 Approval of programs of ethnic education and determination of levels of funding 50. (1) Where an approved ethnic schools authority is providing or proposes to provide, during the year 1984, otherwise than for profit, a program of ethnic education, the Minister may approve that program as an approved program of ethnic education of that authority for the purposes of section 51. (2) Where the Minister approves a program of ethnic education of an approved ethnic schools authority for the purposes of section 51, the Minister shall determine an amount (not exceeding $31) to be the level at which financial assistance is to be provided under section 51 to the approved ethnic schools authority in respect of each student undertaking the program for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of that authority in connection with the provision of the program in the year 1984. (3) Without limiting the matters to which the Minister may have regard in deciding for the purposes of sub-section (1) whether to approve a program of ethnic education or in determining a level of assistance in respect of such a program under sub-section (2), the Minister shall have regard to- (a) the nature of the program; (b) the number of hours per week during which direct instruction is being, or is to be, given to students under the program; and (c) the intended duration of the program. (4) The Minister shall not approve a program of ethnic education of an approved ethnic schools authority under sub-section (1) unless the Minister is satisfied that- (a) that program is open to persons irrespective of their ethnic origin; (b) except in so far as the program is being, or is to be, provided in a school that is not a co-educational school-the program is open to persons irrespective of their sex; (c) no other financial assistance has been or will be provided by the Commonwealth towards the recurrent expenditure of the authority on the program; and (d) the approved ethnic schools authority has complied with any conditions that were binding on the authority under an agreement of the kind referred to in paragraph 39 (2) (b) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 51 Grants for approved programs of ethnic education 51. (1) The Minister may before 1 April 1985 authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved ethnic schools authority in providing, in that State, in the year 1984, an approved program of ethnic education, of such amounts as the Minister determines, being amounts that do not exceed, in the aggregate, an amount equal to the product of the amount that is determined by the Minister under section 50 to be the level at which financial assistance is to be provided to the approved ethnic schools authority in respect of each student undertaking the program and the number in relation to the program (not being a number greater than the greatest number of students enrolled in the program) that is ascertained, in accordance with a method determined by the Minister, by writing signed by the Minister, for the purposes of this section, by reference to the numbers of students attending lessons in the program conducted during the relevant period or the relevant periods, as the case may be, in relation to the program. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved ethnic schools authority in connection with the provision, in the State, in the year 1984, of approved programs of ethnic education on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved ethnic schools authority an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to an approved program of ethnic education, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved ethnic schools authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and (b) the State will not make a payment to an approved ethnic schools authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the approved ethnic schools authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the approved ethnic schools authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the authority in connection with the provision of approved programs of ethnic education of that authority in the State in the year 1984; (ii) the approved ethnic schools authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 31 March 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement in writing that contains such information in respect of recurrent expenditure of the authority, and such other financial and statistical information, in respect of the approved programs of ethnic education of that authority, as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (iii) the approved ethnic schools authority will, in relation to each approved program of ethnic education of the authority, comply with such other conditions (if any) as are specified in the approval of the program under section 50; (iv) if the approved ethnic schools authority does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) or in accordance with sub-paragragh (iii), the authority will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the authority under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the authority. (3) In this section, a reference to a relevant period, in relation to a program of ethnic education, shall be construed as a reference to any period commencing and concluding during the year 1984 that the Minister determines, by writing signed by the Minister, to be a relevant period in respect of that program or in respect of a class of programs of ethnic education in which that program is included. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 52 Grants for expenditure in connection with the education of students receiving primary education or secondary education in prescribed country areas 52. (1) Subject to section 53, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in connection with the education of students receiving primary education or secondary education in prescribed country areas in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting- (a) recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with the education of students receiving primary education or secondary education in prescribed country areas in the State; or (b) expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to minor building projects, or minor equipment projects, in connection with the education of students receiving primary education or secondary education in prescribed country areas in the State, being projects- (i) the total expenditure in relation to each of which is, or will be, less than $30,000; or (ii) that are approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section. (3) Financial assistance to a State in respect of expenditure in connection with the education of students receiving primary education or secondary education in prescribed country areas of the State is granted to the State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of the amount of that financial assistance as is applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure in connection with that education in co-educational schools, are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at these schools. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 53 Limits on grants under section 52 53. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 52 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 4 of Schedule 4 opposite to the name of the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 54 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with the education of children residing in residential institutions 54. (1) Subject to section 55, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with the education of children residing in residential institutions in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with the education of children residing in residential institutions in the State. (3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of the amount of that financial assistance as is applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure in connection with the education of children residing in residential institutions catering for both male children and female children, are, as far as practicable, equally available to male children and female children residing in those institutions. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 55 Limits on grants under section 54 55. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 54 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 13 opposite to the name of the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 56 Approval of programs for education of severely handicapped children 56. (1) Where a program for, or in connection with, the education of severely handicapped children is being, or is to be, carried out by or in a State, the Minister may approve the program for the purposes of section 57. (2) The Minister shall not approve a program under sub-section (1) unless the Minister is satisfied that, except in so far as the program is to be carried on in a school other than a co-educational school or in an institution that caters for the needs of children of only one sex, the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the program will, as far as practicable, be equally available to male children and female children. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 57 Grants for expenditure in relation to approved programs for education of severely handicapped children 57. (1) Subject to section 58, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in relation to a program that is being, or is to be, carried out by or in the State and has been approved by her under section 56, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure in relation to a program on the conditions that- (a) the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section in relation to the program is applied by the State, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, for the purpose of meeting expenditure in relation to the program; and (b) the State will cause to be furnished to the Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Minister approves) a certificate by an authorized person to the effect that the person has satisfied himself that the condition specified in paragraph (a) has been fulfilled. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 58 Limits on grants under section 57 58. The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 57 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 13 opposite to the name of the State. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 59 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities 59. (1) Subject to section 60, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with approved professional development activities, being activities which are conducted (in whole or in part) during the year 1984. (3) In this section- (a) a reference to expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities shall be read as not including a reference to expenditure in connection with the remuneration of teachers attending approved professional development activities unless the approved professional development activities are activities in which teachers at government schools and teachers at non-government schools are eligible to participate; (b) a reference to expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities shall be read as not including a reference to expenditure in connection with the replacement of teachers during a period when they are attending approved professional development activities unless the approved professional development activities- (i) are activities in which teachers at government schools and teachers at non-government schools are eligible to participate; and (ii) relate to- (A) education of the kind referred to in sub-section 10 (1), 12 (1), 15 (1), 26 (1), 27 (1), 29 (1), 30 (1), 34 (1), 44 (1), 52 (1), 54 (1) or 56 (1) of this Act; (B) projects or programs approved under section 17 or 36 of this Act or under the States Grants (Education Assistance-Participation and Equity) Act 1983; (C) projects or programs related to the education of peoples of the aboriginal race of Australia or to the education of female children; or (D) such other matters as the Minister from time to time approves; and (c) a reference to a teacher shall be read as including a reference to- (i) a person employed at a school and a person associated with the administration of a school or a school system, including a government school system; and (ii) a person included in a class of persons declared by the Minister to be a class of persons to be treated as teachers for the purposes of this section. (4) For the purposes of this Act, where, immediately before the commencing day, a declaration was in force for the purposes of sub-section 47 (3) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, the declaration shall, on and after that day, be deemed to be a declaration made under sub-section (3) of this section. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 60 Limits on grants under section 59 60. (1) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 59, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities, other than approved professional development activities of the kind referred to in sub-section (2), that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Part I of Schedule 14 opposite to the name of the State. (2) The Minister shall not authorize payments to the States under section 59 by way of financial assistance to the States in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities involving- (a) the temporary transfer of teachers at government schools or non-government schools in Australia to different schools in Australia or New Zealand or otherwise than to such schools for the purpose of improving the experience, knowledge or skills, in relation to primary education or secondary education, of those teachers and of persons with whom they come into contact during temporary transfer; or (b) the provision of assistance to parents of students at government schools or non-government schools, and other members of the community interested in education at those schools, to improve their experience, knowledge or skills in relation to primary education or secondary education, that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in Part II of Schedule 14. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 61 Grants for expenditure of approved education centres 61. (1) Subject to section 62, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure of an approved education centre in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure of an approved education centre in the State on the conditions that- (a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the governing body of the approved education centre an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the approved education centre, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the governing body as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; (b) the State will not make a payment to the governing body under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the governing body has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions: (i) the governing body will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the governing body under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting- (A) recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of the approved education centre; or (B) expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to building projects, or equipment projects, in connection with the approved education centre, being projects that are approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section; (ii) the governing body will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves)- (A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and (B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of the approved education centre as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; (iii) if the governing body does not fulfil a condition specified in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii), the governing body will, if the Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts paid to the governing body under this section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be paid by the governing body. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 62 Limit on grants under section 61 62. The Minister shall not authorize payments to the States under section 61 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 10. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 63 Approval of projects or programs of national significance 63. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), where- (a) a project or program is being, or is to be, carried out in Australia with the sole or principal object of promoting change or innovation in, or any matter relating to, primary education or secondary education in Australia or of improving the experience, knowledge or skills of teachers and other persons in relation to primary education or secondary education in Australia; and (b) the Minister is satisified that the project or program is of national significance and that it is desirable that assistance in connection with the project or program be provided under section 64, the Minister may approve the project or program for the purposes of that section. (2) The Minister shall not approve a project or program under sub-section (1) unless the Minister is satisfied that in so far as the project or program is being, or is to be, carried on in a co-educational school, the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the project or program are, or will be, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at the school. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 64 Grants for expenditure in relation to projects or programs of national significance 64. (1) Subject to section 65, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in relation to a project or program that is being, or is to be, carried out by or in the State and has been approved by him under section 63 (including a project or program that is being, or is to be, carried out together with, or as part of, a project or program, as the case may be, that is being, or is to be, carried out by or in another State or by the Commonwealth or in a Territory), of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure in relation to a project or program on the conditions that- (a) the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, for the purpose of meeting expenditure in relation to the project or program; and (b) the State will cause to be furnished to the Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Minister approves) a certificate by an authorized person to the effect that the person has satisfied himself that the condition specified in paragraph (a) has been fulfilled. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 65 Limit on grants under section 64 65. The Minister shall not authorize payments to the States under section 64 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 4 of Schedule 10. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 66 Additional conditions to which grants of financial assistance under Part subject 66. (1) Financial assistance is granted to a State under section 44, 52, 54 or 59 on the additional condition that the State will cause to be furnished to the Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Minister approves in relation to the grant)- (a) a certificate by an authorized person to the effect that the person has satisfied himself that the condition specified in sub-section 44 (2), 52 (2) or 54 (2), as the case may be, has been fulfilled; and (b) a statement, in accordance with a form approved by the Minister, that summarizes the manner in which the amount applied by the State in pursuance of the condition so specified has been so applied. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under a section contained in this Part on the additional condition that, if the State does not fulfil a condition specified in this Part with respect to that grant, the State will, if the Minister so determines, repay to the Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under that section) as the Minister specifies in the determination as the amount that should be repaid by the State. (3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under section 44, 52, 54, 56, 59 or 61 on the additional condition that, if the State establishes, or proposes to establish, a committee of persons (by whatever name described) for the sole or principal purpose of providing advice in respect of the distribution of financial assistance granted under one or more of those sections, the State Education Minister will, before making any appointment or further appointment to that committee, consult the Commonwealth Education Minister with respect to the criteria for making appointments to that committee. (4) Nothing in this Act shall be taken to authorize the recovery by the Commonwealth in respect of financial assistance granted to a State under a section contained in this Part of any amount from that State or of any amount under an agreement entered into for the purposes of a condition specified in that section in respect of that financial assistance if the aggregate of that amount and any amount previously recovered from that State in respect of that financial assistance, or previously recovered under such an agreement entered into in relation to that financial assistance would exceed, in the aggregate, the amount of that financial assistance. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 67 Minister may fix amounts, and times of payments, of financial assistance PART VI-MISCELLANEOUS 67. Financial assistance payable to a State under this Act shall be paid in such amounts, and at such times, as the Minister determines in accordance with arrangements approved by the Minister for Finance. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 68 Amounts repayable by the States to the Commonwealth 68. An amount repayable by a State to the Commonwealth in accordance with any condition provided for in this Act is a debt due by the State to the Commonwealth. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 69 Advances 69. The Minister may, with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, make arrangements for the making to a State, by way of financial assistance to the State, of advances on account of an amount that is expected to become payable under this Act to the State, and the conditions that would be applicable to a payment of the amount are applicable to any such advance. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 70 Variation of Schedules 6 and 11 70. (1) Subject to this section, the Minister may, from time to time, after receiving advice from the Commonwealth Schools Commission, direct that this Act shall have effect as if all or any of the amounts specified in columns 3 and 5 of Schedule 6 or 4 and 5 of Schedule 6 or in columns 3 and 5 of Schedule 11 or 4 and 5 of Schedule 11 were varied in accordance with that direction and, where the Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of those amounts then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule, as from the commencing day, in substitution for those amounts, those amounts as so varied. (2) The Minister shall not give a direction under sub-section (1) that would have the effect of increasing or decreasing the aggregate of the amount that may be paid to the States under section 17, 37 or 38 in respect of the year commencing on 1 January 1985 or the year commencing on 1 January 1986. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 71 Payments to be made out of Consolidated Revenue Fund or Loan Fund 71. Payments to a State under this Act may be made out of- (a) in the case of payments under section 6, 21 or 42 and advances under section 69 on account of payments of that kind-the Consolidated Revenue Fund or the Loan Fund; or (b) in any other case-the Consolidated Revenue Fund. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 72 Authority to borrow 72. The Treasurer may, from time to time, in accordance with the provisions of the Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act 1911, or in accordance with the provisions of an Act authorizing the issue of Treasury Bills, borrow moneys not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of the amounts that may become payable to the States under sections 6, 21 and 42 of this Act. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 73 Application of moneys borrowed 73. Moneys borrowed under section 72 shall be issued and applied only for the expenses of borrowing and- (a) for the purpose of making payments to the States under section 6, 21 or 42; (b) for the purpose of making advances under section 69 on account of payments of that kind; and (c) for the purpose of making payments to the Consolidated Revenue Fund in accordance with section 74. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 74 Reimbursement of Consolidated Revenue Fund from Loan Fund 74. (1) Where a payment under section 6, 21 or 42, or an advance under section 69 on account of a payment of that kind, has been made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, the Minister for Finance may authorize the payment to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, out of the Loan Fund, of an amount not exceeding the amount so paid. (2) In any statement prepared by the Minister for Finance under section 50 of the Audit Act 1901, amounts paid to the Consolidated Revenue Fund under sub-section (1) of this section shall not be shown as receipts of that Fund but shall be shown as having reduced the total of the amounts expended from that Fund under this Act. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 75 Appropriation 75. The Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Loan Fund are appropriated as necessary for the purposes of this Act. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 76 Delegation by Minister 76. (1) The Minister may, either generally or as otherwise provided by the instrument of delegation, by writing signed by the Minister, delegate to the Commonwealth Schools Commission, to a full-time member of the Commission or to an officer of the Australian Public Service all or any of the Minister's powers under this Act, other than this power of delegation. (2) A power so delegated, when exercised by the delegate shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been exercised by the Minister. (3) A delegation under this section does not prevent the exercise of a power by the Minister. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 77 Determinations to be in writing, &c. 77. Any declaration, approval, authorization, determination, direction or notification made or given under, or for the purposes of, this Act shall be made or given by instrument in writing and any declaration, approval, authorization, determination, direction or notification so made or given, or deemed to be made or given under, or for the purposes of, this Act, may be varied or revoked by instrument in writing by the person authorized to make or give the relevant declaration, approval, authorization, determination, direction or notification. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 78 Report by Minister 78. The Minister shall, as soon as practicable after 30 June 1985, cause a report with respect to the financial assistance granted, and other payments authorized, by the Minister under this Act, and with respect to the application of that financial assistance and those payments, to be laid before each House of the Parliament. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 79 Regulations 79. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters- (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 80 Principal Act PART VII-AMENDMENTS OF STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1982 80. The States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982*1* is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 81 Determination of levels of funding for eligible new arrivals 81. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting ''$880'' and substituting ''$841''. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 82 Grants for expenditure in connection with special education at non-government schools, &c. 82. Section 32 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section: ''(8) Without prejudice to the meaning of the expression 'in respect of the year 1983' in any other provision of this Act, an amount shall be taken, for the purposes of sub-section (3), to have been applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in respect of the year 1983 in connection with special education or to have been applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in respect of the year 1983 in connection with prescribed special education if that amount has been applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure in respect of a program of special education, or a program of prescribed special education, as the case requires, that commenced in that year.''. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 83 Grants for approved programs of ethnic education 83. Section 39 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (1) '', before 1 April 1984,'' after ''may'' (first occurring). States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 84 Schedules 84. The Schedules to the Principal Act are repealed and the Schedules set out in Schedule 15 to this Act are substituted. States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 85 Directions under Principal Act 85. Directions given under sub-section 16 (2) or 20 (2) of the Principal Act cease to have effect upon the commencement of this Act, but this section shall not be taken to affect the previous operation of the directions. ---------------- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 1 Section 7 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Column 7 Prescribed purpose Prescribed purpose Prescribed purpose Prescribed purpose referred to in referred to in referred to in referred to in paragraph (a) of paragraph (b) of paragraph (c) of paragraph (d) of definition of definition of definition of definition of Name of State General capital ''prescribed purpose'' ''prescribed purpose'' ''prescribed purpose'' ''prescribed purpose'' Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ $ $ New South Wales . 31 003 000 7 182 000 4 688 000 3 837 000 4 132 000 50 842 000 Victoria. . . . . 22 998 000 5 756 000 3 505 000 2 870 000 3 155 000 38 284 000 Queensland. . . . 15 889 000 2 739 000 2 204 000 1 805 000 2 041 000 24 678 000 South Australia . 8 094 000 1 828 000 1 246 000 1 020 000 1 150 000 13 338 000 Western Australia 8 695 000 1 799 000 1 249 000 1 022 000 1 161 000 13 926 000 Tasmania. . . . . 2 700 000 566 000 415 000 339 000 389 000 4 409 000 Northern Territory . . . . 1 065 000 375 000 143 000 116 000 119 000 1 818 000 ------------------------------------------------------------ Totals . . . . 90 444 000 20 245 000 13 450 000 11 009 000 12 147 000 147 295 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 2 SCHEDULE 2 Section 9 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-RECURRENT EXPENDITURE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 975 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 237 000 Queensland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 721 000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 253 000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 316 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 720 000 Northern Territory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 345 000 ---------- Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 567 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 3 SCHEDULE 3 Section 11 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-GENERAL EDUCATION IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE ------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Amounts ------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . 15 069 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . 14 062 000 Queensland. . . . . . . 2 480 000 South Australia . . . . 3 904 000 Western Australia . . . 3 306 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . 504 000 Northern Territory. . . 354 000 ---------- Total. . . . . . . . 39 679 000 ------------------------------------- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 4 SCHEDULE 4 Sections 14, 33 and 53 DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS AND PRESCRIBED COUNTRY AREAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Disadvantaged Disadvantaged government non-government Prescribed Name of State schools schools country areas Totals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . 10 285 000 2 071 000 2 453 000 14 809 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . . 8 778 000 2 231 000 1 451 000 12 460 000 Queensland. . . . . . . . 3 042 000 463 000 2 354 000 5 859 000 South Australia . . . . . 2 504 000 263 000 1 020 000 3 787 000 Western Australia . . . . 2 416 000 398 000 1 732 000 4 546 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . . 715 000 76 000 340 000 1 131 000 Northern Territory. . . . 752 000 27 000 364 000 1 143 000 -------------------------------------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . 28 492 000 5 529 000 9 714 000 43 735 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 5 SCHEDULE 5 Sections 15,16, 34 and 35 SPECIAL EDUCATION (INCLUDING INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Government non-government special special education education (including (including government Government non-government non-government integration integration integration integration Name of State activities) activities activities) activities ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ New South Wales. . . . . . 7 252 000 463 000 1 926 000 134 000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . 5 422 000 346 000 1 785 000 124 000 Queensland . . . . . . . . 3 411 000 218 000 822 000 57 000 South Australia. . . . . . 1 929 000 123 000 362 000 25 000 Western Australia. . . . . 1 933 000 123 000 404 000 28 000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . 642 000 42 000 49 000 8 000 Northern Territory . . . . 221 000 14 000 11 000 2 000 ------------------------------------------------ Totals. . . . . . . . . 20 810 000 1 329 000 5 359 000 378 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 6 SCHEDULE 6 Section 18 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-COMPUTER EDUCATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Government schools Government schools Government schools year commencing year commencing year commencing Name of State 1 January 1984 1 January 1985 1 January 1986 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . 1 545 000 1 545 000 1 545 000 4 635 000 Victoria. . . . . . 1 282 000 1 282 000 1 282 000 3 846 000 Queensland. . . . . 676 000 676 000 676 000 2 028 000 South Australia . . 482 000 482 000 482 000 1 446 000 Western Australia . 447 000 447 000 447 000 1 341 000 Tasmania. . . . . . 239 000 239 000 239 000 717 000 Northern Territory. 136 000 136 000 136 000 408 000 ---------------------------------------------------------- Totals . . . . . 4 807 000 4 807 000 4 807 000 14 421 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 7 SCHEDULE 7 Section 22 NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Prescribed purpose Prescribed purpose Prescribed purpose referred to in referred to in referred to in paragraph (a) of paragraph (b) of paragraph (c) of definition of definition of definition of Name of State General capital ''prescribed purpose'' ''prescribed purpose'' ''prescribed purpose'' Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ $ New South Wales. . . . 12 063 000 1 473 000 1 818 000 1 356 16 710 000 000 Victoria . . . . . . . 10 390 000 1 480 000 1 685 000 1 349 14 904 000 000 Queensland . . . . . . 6 616 000 476 000 775 000 648 000 8 515 000 South Australia. . . . 2 487 000 230 000 341 000 269 000 3 327 000 Western Australia. . . 3 093 000 296 000 383 000 320 000 4 092 000 Tasmania . . . . . . . 1 017 000 72 000 114 000 89 000 1 292 000 Northern Territory . . 642 000 22 000 33 000 17 000 714 000 --------------------------------------------------- Totals. . . . . . . 36 308 000 4 049 000 5 149 000 4 048 49 554 000 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 8 SCHEDULE 8 Sections 23 and 24 RECURRENT EXPENDITURE-LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ------------------------------------------------ Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Amounts per Amounts per primary secondary Level of assistance school student school student ------------------------------------------------ $ $ la . . . . . . . . 270 428 lb . . . . . . . . 360 571 2. . . . . . . . . 545 866 3. . . . . . . . . 741 1 177 ------------------------------------------------ States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 9 SCHEDULE 9 Section 24 NON-SYSTEMIC SCHOOLS-SUPPLEMENTARY ESTABLISHMENT GRANTS ------------------------------------------------ Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Amounts per Amounts per primary secondary Year school student school student ------------------------------------------------ $ $ 1981 . . . . . . . 45 71 1982 . . . . . . . 90 143 1983 . . . . . . . 135 214 1984 . . . . . . . 180 286 ------------------------------------------------ States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 10 SCHEDULE 10 Sections 25, 28, 62 and 65 MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Total of all additional Total of all grants Total of all grants grants under sections under sections 26 under section 64 23 and 24 for and 27 for general Total of all grants for projects non-government schools education in English under section 61 or programs in need of short-term as a second language in for approved of national emergency assistance non-government schools education centres significance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ 611 000 17 498 000 2 273 000 1 727 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 11 SCHEDULE 11 Section 39 NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-COMPUTER EDUCATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Non-government Non-government Non-government schools year schools year schools year commencing commencing commencing Name of State 1 January 1984 1 January 1985 1 January 1986 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . 337 000 337 000 337 000 1 011 000 Victoria. . . . . . 339 000 339 000 339 000 1 017 000 Queensland. . . . . 176 000 176 000 176 000 528 000 South Australia . . 106 000 106 000 106 000 318 000 Western Australia . 114 000 114 000 114 000 342 000 Tasmania. . . . . . 71 000 71 000 71 000 213 000 Northern Territory. 31 000 31 000 31 000 93 000 ---------------------------------------------------------- Totals . . . . . 1 174 000 1 174 000 1 174 000 3 522 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 12 SCHEDULE 12 Sections 45 and 48 MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION PART 1-AMOUNTS OF GRANTS TO STATES ------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Amounts ------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . 1 488 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . 1 176 000 Queensland. . . . . . . 684 000 South Australia . . . . 368 000 Western Australia . . . 376 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . 122 000 Northern Territory. . . 50 000 ---------- Total. . . . . . . . 4 264 000 ------------------------------------- PART II-GRANTS IN RELATION TO APPROVED MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION PROJECTS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE TOTAL OF GRANTS-$378 000 States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 13 SCHEDULE 13 Sections 55 and 58 RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SEVERELY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ------------------------------------------------ Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Severely Residential handicapped Name of State institutions children ------------------------------------------------ $ $ New South Wales. . 760 000 1 199 000 Victoria . . . . . 601 000 935 000 Queensland . . . . 350 000 590 000 South Australia. . 188 000 299 000 Western Australia. 192 000 324 000 Tasmania . . . . . 62 000 104 000 Northern Territory 21 000 37 000 -------------------------- Totals. . . . . 2 174 000 3 488 000 ------------------------------------------------ States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 14 SCHEDULE 14 Section 60 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES PART 1-AMOUNTS OF GRANTS TO STATES ------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Amounts ------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . 3 700 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . 2 606 000 Queensland. . . . . . . 2 015 000 South Australia . . . . 838 000 Western Australia . . . 899 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . 273 000 Northern Territory. . . 129 000 ---------- Total. . . . . . . . 10 460 000 ------------------------------------- PART II-GRANTS IN RELATION TO APPROVED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES TOTAL OF GRANTS-$171 000 States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SCHEDULE 15 SCHEDULE 15 Section 84 NEW SCHEDULES TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE SCHEDULES TO THE STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1982 ---------------- '' SCHEDULE 1 Sections 7 and 9 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS AND RECURRENT EXPENDITURE --------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Building and equipment Recurrent Name of State projects expenditure --------------------------------------------- $ $ New South Wales . . . 49 639 000 107 585 000 Victoria. . . . . . . 37 290 000 80 994 000 Queensland. . . . . . 23 939 000 49 074 000 South Australia . . . 12 963 000 29 023 000 Western Australia . . 13 411 000 28 194 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . 4 288 000 9 632 000 Northern Territory. . 1 970 000 3 168 000 --------------------- Totals . . . . . . 143 500 000 307 670 000 --------------------------------------------- SCHEDULE 2 Section 11 GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-GENERAL EDUCATION IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE ------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Amounts ------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . 14 692 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . 13 710 000 Queensland. . . . . . . 2 418 000 South Australia . . . . 3 806 000 Western Australia . . . 3 223 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . 491 000 Northern Territory. . . 346 000 ---------- Total. . . . . . . . 38 686 000 ------------------------------------- SCHEDULE 3 Sections 14, 31 and 41 DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS AND PRESCRIBED COUNTRY AREAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Disadvantaged Disadvantaged government non-government Prescribed Name of State schools schools country areas Totals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . 10 065 000 1 880 000 2 464 000 14 409 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . . 9 090 000 2 077 000 1 442 000 12 609 000 Queensland. . . . . . . . 2 955 000 394 000 2 278 000 5 627 000 South Australia . . . . . 2 566 000 289 000 933 000 3 788 000 Western Australia . . . . 2 163 000 332 000 1 655 000 4 150 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . . 669 000 80 000 378 000 1 127 000 Northern Territory. . . . 583 000 26 000 321 000 930 000 -------------------------------------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . 28 091 000 5 078 000 9 471 000 42 640 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SCHEDULE 4 Sections 15, 16, 32 and 33 SPECIAL EDUCATION (INCLUDING INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Government non-government special special education education (including (including government Government non-government non-government integration integration integration integration Name of State activities) activities activities) activities ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . 7 147 000 379 000 1 804 000 108 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . . . 5 202 000 285 000 1 862 000 103 000 Queensland. . . . . . . . . 3 026 000 168 000 929 000 47 000 South Australia . . . . . . 1 926 000 104 000 295 000 19 000 Western Australia . . . . . 1 793 000 98 000 351 000 22 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . . . 654 000 36 000 46 000 7 000 Northern Territory. . . . . 192 000 10 000 10 000 1 000 ------------------------------------------------ Totals . . . . . . . . . 19 940 000 1 080 000 5 297 000 307 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SCHEDULE 5 Section 20 NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS-BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS ------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Amounts ------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . 16 294 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . 15 584 000 Queensland. . . . . . . 7 993 000 South Australia . . . . 3 717 000 Western Australia . . . 4 700 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . 1 435 000 Northern Territory. . . 1 101 000 ---------- Total. . . . . . . . 50 824 000 ------------------------------------- SCHEDULE 6 Sections 21 and 22 RECURRENT EXPENDITURE-LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ------------------------------------------------------------------ Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Amounts per primary Amounts per secondary Level of assistance school student school student ------------------------------------------------------------------ $ $ 1. . . . . . . . . . 342 543 2. . . . . . . . . . 513 814 3. . . . . . . . . . 684 1 086 ------------------------------------------------------------------ SCHEDULE 7 Section 22 NON-SYSTEMIC SCHOOLS-SUPPLEMENTARY ESTABLISHMENT GRANTS ------------------------------------------------------------------ Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Amounts per Amounts per primary secondary Year school student school student ------------------------------------------------------------------ $ $ 1980. . . . . . . . . . . . 43 68 1981. . . . . . . . . . . . 86 136 1982. . . . . . . . . . . . 128 204 1983. . . . . . . . . . . . 171 272 ------------------------------------------------------------------ SCHEDULE 8 Sections 23, 26, 50 and 53 MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Total of all additional Total of all grants Total of all grants grants under sections under sections 24 under section 52 21 and 22 for and 25 for general Total of all grants for projects non-government schools education in English under section 49 or programs in need of short-term as a second language in for approved of national emergency assistance non-government schools education centres significance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ $ $ $ 596 000 16 628 000 2 216 000 1 940 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SCHEDULE 9 Section 36 MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AMOUNTS OF GRANTS TO STATES ------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Amounts ------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . 1 452 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . 1 157 000 Queensland. . . . . . . 653 000 South Australia . . . . 362 000 Western Australia . . . 362 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . 122 000 Northern Territory. . . 49 000 ---------- Total. . . . . . . . 4 157 000 ------------------------------------- SCHEDULE 10 Sections 43 and 46 RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SEVERELY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ------------------------------------------------------------------ Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Severely Residential handicapped Name of State institutions children ------------------------------------------------------------------ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . 744 000 1 180 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . . . 591 000 922 000 Queensland. . . . . . . . . 334 000 550 000 South Australia . . . . . . 184 000 297 000 Western Australia . . . . . 184 000 314 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . . . 63 000 104 000 Northern Territory. . . . . 19 000 33 000 ---------------------------------- Totals . . . . . . . . . 2 119 000 3 400 000 ------------------------------------------------------------------ SCHEDULE 11 Section 48 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES ------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Amounts ------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . 6 180 000 Victoria. . . . . . . . 4 380 000 Queensland. . . . . . . 3 314 000 South Australia . . . . 1 413 000 Western Australia . . . 1 484 000 Tasmania. . . . . . . . 462 000 Northern Territory. . . 205 000 --------- Total. . . . . . . . 17 438 000 ------------------------------------- ''. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - NOTE NOTE 1. No. 129, 1982. For previous amendments, see No. 39, 1983.