Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1996 No. 70, 1996 - SECT 68

(1) Subject to subsection (3), the Minister may make a determination
authorising the making of payments to a State by way of financial assistance
to the State for a program year for recurrent expenditure in connection with
special education programs and special education activities provided in the
program year by government schools or government centres for children with
disabilities.

(2) In subsection (1):
recurrent expenditure in connection with special education programs and
special education activities includes recurrent expenditure on integration
activities, and expenditure on minor capital projects in connection with
integration activities, conducted:

   (a)  at government schools in the State; or

   (b)  at places of education approved by the Minister or the State Minister
        for the purposes of the definition of integration activities in
        Schedule 9; where special education is provided at the schools or
        places by or on behalf of the State.

(3) The sum of the amounts paid to the States under this section for a program
year must not be greater than the amount set out in column 2 of Schedule 8 in
relation to the program year. Note 1: Certain amounts paid to a State under
section 77 are taken to be paid under this section.