Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1996 No. 70, 1996 - SECT 9

(1) The Minister must not authorise a payment to a State under a provision of
this Act for government schools for a program year unless the State has
(whether before or after the commencement of this Act) made with the
Commonwealth an agreement that sets out conditions on which financial
assistance is granted to the State under that provision for the program year
and:

   (a)  which are required by subsection (2); or

   (b)  which the Minister thinks are appropriate in relation to financial
        assistance to the State.

(2) The conditions that may be set out in an agreement referred to in
subsection (1) must include:

   (a)  a condition that the amount of the payment is to be spent for purposes
        determined by the Minister and set out in the condition; and

   (b)  a condition requiring reports about the expenditure of the amounts of
        the assistance to be made by the State to the Minister at times, in a
        manner, and containing information of a kind, that the Minister thinks
        appropriate in relation to financial assistance to the State.