Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984 No. 126 of 1984 - SECT 19

19. (1) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section  18
that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 5
opposite to the name of the State.

(2) At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1985, but subject to
sub-section (3), the Commonwealth Education Minister may, at the request of
the State Education Minister for a State, direct that this Act shall have
effect as if the amounts specified in columns 2 and 4 of Schedule 5 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 section), 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) A direction given under sub-section (2) in relation to a State 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 4 of
Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State is greater or less than the
aggregate of the amounts specified in those columns opposite to the name of
the State immediately before the giving of the direction.

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