Commonwealth Numbered Acts

States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 27

27. (1) Subject to section 28, the Minister may authorize the payment to a
State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in
respect of recurrent expenditure of a non-systemic school in the State in
connection with general education in English as a second language provided at
or in connection with the school, of such amounts as the Minister determines.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect
of recurrent expenditure of a non-systemic school in the State in connection
with general education in English as a second language provided at or in
connection with the school on the conditions that-

   (a)  subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to
        the approved authority of the school an amount equal to each amount
        paid to the State under this section in relation to the school, and,
        in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved
        authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the
        Commonwealth under this section; and

   (b)  the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this
        section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes to the
        State Education Minister for the State a certificate to the effect
        that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be
        bound by the following conditions:

        (i)    the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the
               sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this
               section is applied for the purpose of meeting
               recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of the
               school in connection with general education in English as a
               second language provided at or in connection with the school;

        (ii)   if the school is a co-educational school-the approved authority
               will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created
               by, the application of an amount equal to that amount for the
               purposes of that expenditure of the school are, as far as
               practicable, equally available to male students and female
               students at the school;

        (iii)  the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the
               Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or
               such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister
               approves)-

                (A)  a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect
                     that he has satisfied himself that the condition
                     specified in sub-paragraph (i) has been fulfilled; and

                (B)  a statement in writing, that contains such information in
                     respect of
                     general education in English as a second language
                     provided at or in connection with the school as is
                     required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so
                     furnished;

        (iv)   if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified
               in sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii), the authority will, if the
               Commonwealth Education Minister so determines, pay to the
               Commonwealth such amount (not being an amount greater than the
               sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this
               section) as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines
               should be paid by the approved authority.