Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1996 No. 70, 1996 - SECT 71

(1) If:

   (a)  an amount is payable to a State for a program year under section  47
        in relation to the number of students receiving education at systemic
        schools in an approved school system or at a non-systemic school; and

   (b)  any of the students are students with disabilities; and

   (c)  the funding level of the system or of the non-systemic school is not
        level 12; the Minister may make a determination authorising the
        payment to the State for the program year, for the approved authority
        of the system or the approved authority of the non-systemic school, of
        an additional amount equal to the sum of the amounts worked out using
        the following formulas:
Number of primary x (Funding level 12 - Actual primary)
    students with         (primary amount       amount        )

    disabilities          (                                   )


Number of secondary x (Funding level 12 - Actual secondary)
    students with           (secondary amount     amount          )

    disabilities            (                                     )


(2) For the purposes of the formulas in subsection (1):
number of primary students with disabilities means the number of primary
students (including the full-time equivalent of part-time students) in the
system or at the school, as the case may be, who are students with
disabilities.
primary student means a student receiving primary education at a systemic
school in the system or at the school, as the case may be, on the schools
census day for the State for the program year.
funding level 12 primary amount means the amount payable to the State for the
program year under section 47 for a primary student receiving education at a
systemic school in an approved school system, or at a non-systemic school, for
which the funding level of the system or of the non-systemic school is level
12.
actual primary amount means the amount payable to the State for the program
year under section 47, for a primary student, for the approved school system
or the non-systemic school referred to in paragraph (1)(a).
number of secondary students with disabilities means the number of secondary
students (including the full-time equivalent of part-time students) in the
system or at the school, as the case may be, who are students with
disabilities.
secondary student means a student receiving secondary education at a systemic
school in the system or at the school, as the case may be, on the schools
census day for the State for the program year.
funding level 12 secondary amount means the amount payable to the State for
the program year under section 47 for a secondary student receiving education
at a systemic school in an approved school system, or at a non-systemic
school, for which the funding level of the system or of the non-systemic
school is level 12.
actual secondary amount means the amount payable to the State for the program
year under section 47, for a secondary student, for the approved school system
or the non-systemic school referred to in paragraph (1)(a).