Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1996 No. 70, 1996 - SECT 19

(1) This section applies if:

   (a)  financial assistance:

        (i)    is granted to a State under a provision of this Act; or

        (ii)   was granted to a State under a provision of the former Act that
               corresponds to a provision of this Act; and

   (b)  under a condition of the grant the Minister, or the relevant Minister,
        as the case may be, has determined that the State should repay an
        amount to the Commonwealth; and

   (c)  an amount (the repayable amount) that is the whole or a part of the
        amount referred to in paragraph (b) remains unpaid.

(2) The Minister may make a determination reducing an amount that is payable
to the State under any provision of this Act in a program year by an amount
not greater than the repayable amount.

(3) The Minister may make a determination increasing the maximum amount that
may be paid to the States for any purpose under any provision of this Act in
any program year by an amount that is not greater, or amounts the sum of which
is not greater, than the amount of any reduction effected under subsection (2)
(whether the reduction was effected in relation to the same provision, or a
different provision, of this Act).