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SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE ACT 2008 - SECT 53

Maximum SES funding--meaning of majority Indigenous student school

  (1)   In this Act:

"majority Indigenous student school" , for a program year, means a non - government school, if:

  (a)   in the case of a school that was not a very remote school on the schools census day for the calendar year before the program year--as counted on that schools census day, 80% or more of the total number of students receiving primary and secondary education at the school were Indigenous; or

  (b)   in the case of a school that was a very remote school on the schools census day for the calendar year before the program year--as counted on that schools census day, 50% or more of the total number of students receiving primary and secondary education at the school were Indigenous.

  (2)   In this section:

"very remote school" , for a calendar year, means a school:

  (a)   whose only school campus for that calendar year is a very remote school campus (within the meaning of this Act); or

  (b)   all of whose school campuses for that calendar year are very remote school campuses (within the meaning of this Act).

Note:   The definition of very remote school campus in section   4 applies a more up - to - date Remoteness Structure than the Remoteness Structure applied in section   4 of the former Act.



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