Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984 No. 126 of 1984 - SECT 71

71. (1) Subject to section 72, 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 in connection with approved professional
development activities, of such amounts as the Minister determines.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the
condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the
amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is
applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in
respect of the year 1985, in connection with approved professional development
activities, being activities which are conducted (in whole or in part) during
the year 1985.

(3) In this section-

   (a)  a reference to expenditure in connection with approved professional
        development activities shall be read as not including a reference to
        expenditure in connection with the remuneration of teachers attending
        approved professional development activities unless the
        approved professional development activities are activities in which
        teachers at government schools and teachers at non-government schools
        are eligible to participate;

   (b)  a reference to expenditure in connection with approved professional
        development activities shall be read as not including a reference to
        expenditure in connection with the replacement of teachers during a
        period when they are attending
        approved professional development activities unless the
        approved professional development activities-

        (i)    are activities in which teachers at government schools and
               teachers at non-government schools are eligible to participate;
               and

        (ii)   relate to-

                (A)  education of the kind referred to in sub-section 13 (1),
                     15 (1), 18 (1), 32 (1), 33 (1), 35 (1), 36 (1), 40 (1),
                     54 (1), 62 (1), 64 (1) or 66 (1) of this Act;

                (B)  projects or programs approved under section 20 or 42 of
                     this Act or under the
                     States Grants (Education Assistance-Participation and Equity) Act 
                     1983 ;

                (C)  projects or programs related to the education of
                     peoples of the aboriginal race of Australia or to the
                     education of female children;

                (D)  projects or programs related to the provision of
                     education at disadvantaged schools;

                (E)  programs of basic learning referred to in sub-section 22
                     (1), 47 (1) or 48 (1), programs of early
                     special education referred to in sub-section 69 (1) or
                     (2) and projects or programs of national significance
                     referred to in sub-section 76 (1); or

                (F)  such other matters as the Minister from time to time
                     approves; and

   (c)  a reference to a teacher shall be read as including a reference to-

        (i)    a person employed at a school and a person associated with the
               administration of a school or a school system, including a
               government school system; and

        (ii)   a person included in a class of persons declared by the
               Minister to be a class of persons to be treated as teachers for
               the purposes of this section.

(4) For the purposes of this Act, where, immediately before the commencing
day, a declaration was in force for the purposes of sub-section 59 (3) of the
States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983, the declaration shall, on and
after that day, be deemed to be a declaration made under sub-section (3) of
this section.