EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 421 Transportation assistance for certain students

EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 421

421 Transportation assistance for certain students

(1) The Minister may give assistance to an eligible student relating to his or her transportation to or from a school in receipt of subsidy.

(2) The ways the Minister may give the assistance include the following—

(a) paying to the student, or a parent of the student, all or part of the expenses of the transportation;

(b) making payments to a provider of the transportation;

(c) helping to organise or coordinate the transportation.

(3) In this section—


"eligible student" means a person who—

(a) is attending a school in receipt of subsidy; and

(b) has a disability that necessitates transport to or from the school by a means that takes account of the disability.