Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1987 No. 122, 1987 - SECT 7

7. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by inserting after subsection (2A) the following subsection:

"(2B) The Minister shall not authorise payments to a State under section 9 in
respect of the expenditure in respect of the year 1988 that exceed, in the
aggregate, the amounts specified opposite to the name of the State in column 2
of Part IV of Schedule 1."; and

   (b)  by inserting after subsection (5A) the following subsection:

"(5B) A direction given under subsection (3) in relation to the year 1988
shall not provide for a variation of any amounts specified in column 2 of Part
IV of Schedule 1 in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the
amounts specified in that column of that Part opposite to the names of States
is greater or less than the total amount for all States specified in that
column.".