Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1996 No. 70, 1996 - SECT 48

(1) The Minister may make a determination approving a capital grant that may
be authorised to be paid to a State under section 49 for a capital project or
capital projects:

   (a)  in connection with a non-government school, a block grant authority or
        a non-government rural student hostel in the State; or

   (b)  in connection with a group of non-government schools or non-
        government rural student hostels, or both, in the State; for a program
        year.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may make a determination
setting out the total amount of the capital grants that may be approved under
subsection (1) in respect of a block grant authority for a particular program
year for projects referred to in that subsection.

(3) The Minister must not vary the amount of a capital grant approved under
subsection (1) and administered by a block grant authority if the variation
would result in the total amount of the capital grants approved under this
section for the program year and administered by the block grant authority
being greater than the total amount determined for the block grant authority
under subsection (2) for the program year.