Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984 No. 126 of 1984 - SECT 33

33. (1) Subject to section 34, 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, or of
non-systemic schools included in a group of non-systemic schools in the State,
in connection with general education in English as a second language provided
at or in connection with the school, or the schools in that group, as the case
may be, 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, or of
non-systemic schools included in a group of non-systemic schools in the State,
in connection with general education in English as a second language provided
at or in connection with the school or the schools in that group, as the case
may be, on the conditions that-

   (a)  subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to
        the approved authority of the school or of the group of schools, as
        the case requires, an amount equal to each amount paid to the State
        under this section in relation to the school or the schools in that
        group, as the case requires, 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 1985, of the
               school or the schools in that group, as the case requires, in
               connection with
               general education in English as a second language provided at
               or in connection with the school or the schools in that group,
               as the case requires;

        (ii)   in the case of an amount paid under this section to an approved
               authority of a non-systemic school that is a
               co-educational school in respect of that expenditure of the
               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)  in the case of an amount paid under this section to an approved
               authority of a group of non-systemic schools in respect of that
               expenditure of schools included in that group-the
               approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the
               opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to
               so much of that amount as is applied for the purposes of
               meeting expenditure of that kind of co-educational schools
               included in that group are, as far as practicable, equally
               available to male students and female students at those
               schools;

        (iv)   the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the
               Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June 1986 or
               such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister
               approves)-

                (A)  a certificate by a person who is a qualified accountant
                     to the effect that the person is satisfied 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, or the
                     schools in that group, as is required by the
                     Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished;

        (v)    if the approved authority does not fulfil a condition specified
               in sub-paragraph (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), the
               approved 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.

(3) A reference in sub-section (2) to an approved authority in relation to a
group of non-systemic schools is a reference to a person or body that the
Minister declares to be the approved authority of that group of non-systemic
schools for the purposes of this section.