Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS) ACT 1973 No. 214, 1973 - SECT 9

9. (1) In this section and in section 10, ''approved laboratory building''
means a building, or proposed building, for use as a laboratory in the
teaching of science in a non-government secondary school, being a school in
respect of which an approval for the application of moneys by a State has been
given under the States Grants (Science Laboratories) Act 1971 before the
commencement of this Act, or is given after the commencement of this Act but
before 30 June 1975.

(2) Subject to this section, the Minister may, during the period to which
this Act applies, authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way
of financial assistance to the State, of such amounts as he determines in
respect of approved laboratory buildings.

(3) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under this section
that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 4 of Schedule 1
opposite to the name of the State.

(4) At any time, and from time to time, during the period to which this Act
applies, but subject to sub-section (5), provision may be made by the
regulations that this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in columns 3
and 4 of Schedule 1 opposite to the name of a State were varied in accordance
with the regulations, and, where provision is so made with respect to the
variation of any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including
this sub-section, sub-section (5) and sub-section 7 (5)), there shall be
deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencement of
this Act), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

(5) Regulations made for the purposes of sub-section (4) shall not provide for
the variation of the amounts specified in columns 3 and 4 of Schedule 1
opposite to the name of a State in such a way that, after the variation, the
aggregate of the amounts specified in those columns opposite to the name of
that State is greater or less than the total specified in column 5 of that
Schedule opposite to the name of that State.