Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1994 No. 19, 1994 - SECT 12

12. After section 71 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Grants for expenditure in connection with non-government disadvantaged schools
in program years 1994, 1995 and 1996

"71A.(1) An aggregation of non-government schools may nominate a body to be
the nominated authority of the aggregation for the purposes of this section.



"(2) The Minister may make a determination authorising the payment to a State
under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State for recurrent
expenditure or for expenditure on minor capital projects of:

   (a)  a nominated authority in connection with non-government disadvantaged
        schools in the aggregation in the State; or

   (b)  the approved authority of one approved school system in the State in
        connection with systemic disadvantaged schools in the State; or

   (c)  non-government disadvantaged schools; for a program year (other than
        program year 1993) of such amounts as the Minister determines.



"(3) The total amounts paid to the States under subsection (2) for the program
year must not be greater than the amount set out opposite the name of the
State in column 3 of the Part of Schedule 7 that relates to that year.



"(4) Financial assistance is granted to a State for the program year for a
systemic or a non-government disadvantaged school in the State on the
following conditions:

   (a)  that, subject to paragraph (b), the State will, as soon as
        practicable, pay to the relevant nominated authority or relevant
        approved authority an amount equal to each amount paid to the State
        under this section for the school for that year;

   (b)  that, when making the payment, the State will describe the amount paid
        as a payment made out of money paid to the State by the Commonwealth
        under this section;

   (c)  the additional conditions applicable under section 83.



"(5) If, in respect of the program year, the Minister makes a determination
under subsection 72B(2) authorising the payment to a State by way of financial
assistance to the State for recurrent expenditure or for expenditure on minor
capital projects of the nominated authority or the approved authority, the
nominated authority or the approved authority may, in that program year, apply
some or all of the financial assistance paid to it under this section in
respect of the same program year to recurrent expenditure or expenditure on
minor capital projects of the kind set out in subsection 72B(2).



"(6) Financial assistance applied by an authority as set out in subsection (5)
is money that is taken to have been granted to the State under section 72B.



"(7) Subsection (5) operates despite:

   (a)  any other provision in this Act; and

   (b)  any condition in an agreement made between the Commonwealth and the
        authority in respect of the financial assistance paid to it under this
        section or section 72B.".