Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1996 No. 70, 1996 - SECT 27

(1) Any variation of the list of approved school systems to be made under this
Act is to be made by determination by the Minister.

(2) The Minister may vary the list of approved school systems to include a new
school system that consists of non-government schools in a State.

(3) If the Minister varies the list of approved school systems to include a
school system, the Minister must, having regard to the need of the system for
financial assistance, determine, and set out in the list of approved school
systems, the funding level of the system.

(4) If:

   (a)  a significant change occurs in the need of an approved school system
        for financial assistance, being a change that occurred due to
        circumstances outside the control of the approved authority; or

   (b)  a school that is included in the list becomes part of an approved
        school system; the Minister may vary the list of approved school
        systems by setting out a different funding level of the system.

(5) The Minister may vary the list of approved school systems:

   (a)  under another provision of this Act; or

   (b)  to correct clerical errors or to make alterations of a formal kind,
        including the removal from the list of approved school systems of the
        name of a school system that has ceased to exist.

(6) A variation under this section may be expressed to have taken effect from
a day before the day on which the determination was made.

(7) If the Minister varies the list of approved school systems under this
section, the Minister must give written notice to the relevant approved
authority accordingly.