Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1977 No. 157, 1977 - SECT 11

11. (1) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section  10
that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 4
opposite to the name of the State.

(2) At any time, and from time to time, during the year to which this Act
applies, but subject to sub-section (4), the Commonwealth Education Minister
may, at the request of the State Education Ministers for 2 or more States,
direct that-

   (a)  this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in column 2 of
        Schedule 4 opposite to the names of those States were varied in
        accordance with the direction; or

   (b)  this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in column 3 of
        Schedule 4 opposite to the names of those States were varied in
        accordance with the direction, and, where the
        Commonwealth Education Minister gives a direction with respect to the
        variation of any such amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act
        (including this sub-section and sub-sections (3) and (4)), there shall
        be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the
        commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so
        varied.

(3) At any time, and from time to time, during the year to which this Act
applies, but subject to sub-section (4), the Commonwealth Education Minister
may, at the request of the State Education Minister for a State, direct that
this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in columns 2 and 3 of Schedule
4 opposite to the name of the State were varied in accordance with the
direction, and, where the Commonwealth Education Minister gives a direction
with respect to the variation of those amounts, then, for the purposes of this
Act (including this sub-section and sub- sections (2) and (4)), there shall be
deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day),
in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied.

(4) A direction given under sub-section (2) or (3) shall not provide for the
variation of any amounts in such a way that, after the variation, the
aggregate of the amounts specified in columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 4 opposite
to the names of the States is greater or less than the total specified at the
foot of column 4 of that Schedule.

(5) As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under
sub-section (2) or (3), he shall cause a statement setting out particulars of
the direction to be laid before each House of the Parliament.