Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984 No. 126 of 1984 - SECT 48

48. (1) Subject to section 49, where the Minister approves, under section  46
, a program submitted by an approved authority in relation to a non-systemic
school in a State as an approved program of basic learning in respect of a
year, the Minister may authorize the payment to the State, by way of financial
assistance, in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of that year of
that non-systemic school in connection with the provision of that program at
or in connection with that school, of such amounts as the Minister determines.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect
of recurrent expenditure in respect of a year of a non-systemic school in
connection with the provision of an approved program of basic learning
approved in respect of that year 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 the amount
        paid to the State under this section in relation to the school, and,
        in making the payments 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 is applied
               for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of
               that year, of the school in connnection with the provision of
               the program 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 meeting recurrent expenditure,
               in respect of that year, in connection with the provision of
               the program at or in connection with 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 next
               following the expiration of that year 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 the operation of the program 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 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 in respect of that program and of that year)
               as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines should be
               paid by the approved authority.