Commonwealth Numbered Acts

States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 22

22. (1) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section  21
that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 6 of Schedule 7
opposite to the name of the State.

(2) Where a maximum amount is specified under sub-section 20 (2) in relation
to a project, the Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under
section 21, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of
expenditure in relation to the project, of amounts that exceed, in the
aggregate, that maximum amount.

(3) At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1984, but subject to
sub-section (4), the Minister may direct that this Act has effect as if some
or all of the amounts specified in column 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of Schedule 7
opposite to the names of States were varied in accordance with the direction,
and, where the Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of
those amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section),
there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule, as from the
commencing day, in substitution for those amounts, those amounts as so varied.

(4) A direction given under sub-section (3) shall not provide for the
variation of any amounts specified in column 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of Schedule 7 in
such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified
in that column 6 opposite to the names of States is greater or less than the
total amount for all the States specified in that column.

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