Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (EDUCATION ASSISTANCE - PARTICIPATION AND EQUITY) AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1986 No. 156, 1986 - SECT 17

17. After section 25B of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Transfer of amounts between Schedules 10 and 12

"25C. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), the Commonwealth Education Minister may,
at the request of the State Education Minister of a State, declare that this
Act shall have effect as if there were substituted for the amount in Column 2
of Schedule 10, and the amount in Column 2 of Schedule 12, opposite to the
name of the State, such other amounts as are respectively specified in the
declaration, being amounts the sum of which is equal to the sum of the
first-mentioned amount and the second-mentioned amount and, where the Minister
so declares, this Act shall have effect accordingly.

"(2) The Minister shall not, in a declaration under sub-section (1), specify,
as the amount to be substituted for the amount in Column 2 of Schedule 10, or
Column 2 of Schedule 12, opposite to the name of a State, an amount that is
less than the sum of the amounts of the payments to the State that have
previously been authorised by the Minister in respect of the year 1987 under
section 7 or 14, as the case may be.".