STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987
STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - LONG TITLE
An Act to amend the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1984, and for related purposes STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 1 Short title etc.
(Assented to 5 June 1987) 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Act 1987. (2) The States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1984*1* is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(Minister's second reading speech made in - House of Representatives on 29 April 1987 Senate on 11 May 1987) *1*No. 126, 1984, as amended. For previous amendments, see Nos. 60 and 163, 1985; and Nos. 66 and 155, 1986. STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 2 Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 3 Interpretation
3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition in its appropriate alphabetical position (determined on a letter-by-letter basis):
"' full fee paying private overseas secondary student' means a student of a kind declared by the regulations to be a full fee paying private overseas secondary student for the purposes of this Act;".
STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 4 Determination of levels of funding for eligible new arrivals
4. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (3) "$989" and substituting "$1,011".
STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 5 List of approved school systems
5. Section 6D of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (5) "the 1 January preceding the making of the determination" and substituting "an earlier date specified in the determination (including a date before the making of the determination)".
STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 6 Non-government non-systemic schools - variation of list etc.
6. Section 7C of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (6) "the 1 January preceding the making of the determination" and substituting "an earlier date specified in the determination (including a date before the making of the determination)".
STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 7
7. After section 11 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with government schools "11A. In calculating a number of students for the purposes of subsection 11 (1) (including for the purposes of any resource agreement of the kind referred to in paragraph 11 (1) (e) or (f), full fee paying private overseas secondary students shall be disregarded.". STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 8
8. After section 25 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:
Approval of block grant authorities "25A. (1) The Minister may, in writing, approve a body corporate as a block grant authority in relation to the schools specified in the approval. "(2) An approval is subject to the conditions specified by the Minister in the approval.
"(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), condtions specified for the purposes of subsection (2) may include a condition that the body corporate enter into an agreement of a specified kind with the Minister.
Approval of building projects and equipment projects in connection with non-government schools and non-government centres "25B. (1) For the purposes of section 26, the Minister may, subject to this section, approve, in respect of the year 1988 or a subsequent year: (a) building projects and equipment projects in connection with nongovernment primary schools in a State; (b) building projects and equipment projects in connection with nongovernment secondary schools in a State; and (c) building projects and equipment projects in connection with nongovernment centres in a State. "(2) Subject to subsection (3), where the Minister approves a building project or equipment project under subsection (1) in respect of the year 1988 or a subsequent year, the Minister may, in the instrument of approval, specify:
(a) the maximum amount to be paid under section 26 in respect of that project in respect of that year; and (b) conditions, other than conditions referred to in subparagraph 26 (2) (b) (i), (ii), (iii) and (v), in relation to which the approved authority for the school concerned with the project will be required to enter into an agreement with the Commonwealth before the State makes a grant to the approved authority
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under section 26 in relation to the project in respect of that year. "(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to an approval of a project in connection with a school in relation to which there is an approved block grant authority.
"(4) A project shall not be approved under subsection (1) if:
(a) the project is in connection with a co-educational school and the Minister is of the opinion that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the project will not, as far as practicable, be equally available to male students and female students at the school; or (b) the sole or principal object, or one of the principal objects, of the project is: (i) to provide housing or other residential accommodation for teaching or other staff; or (ii) to provide facilities for use, wholly or partly, for or in relation to religious worship.". STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 9 Limits on grants under section 2l etc.
9. Section 27 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (3B) "$2,867,000" and substituting "$2,937,000".
STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 10
10. After section 28B of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Systemic schools - limits on funding where a number of students are full fee paying private overseas secondary students "28C. In calculating a number of students for the purposes of subsection 28(1) (including for the purposes of any resource agreement of the kind referred to in paragraph 28 (1) (e) or (f)), full fee paying private overseas secondary students shall be disregarded.". STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 11
11. After section 29B of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Non-systemic schools - limits on funding where a number of students are full fee paying private overseas secondary students "29C. In calculating a number of students for the purposes of subsection 29 (1), full fee paying private overseas secondary students shall be disregarded.". STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 12 Limits on grants under section 52
12. Section 53 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (3) (a) "$6,063,000" and substituting "$6,210,000"; and (b) by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) "$2,425,000" and substituting "$2,483,000". STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 13 Limits on grants under section 70B
13. Section 70C of the Principal Act is amended by omitting "$204,000" and substituting "$208,000".
STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 14 Amendment of Schedules
14. (1) Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part III and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 1 to this Act.
(2) Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is repealed and the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to this Act is substituted.
(3) Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part III and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 3 to this Act.
(4) Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part III and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 4 to this Act.
(5) Schedule 5 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part III and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 5 to this Act.
(6) Schedule 7 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part III and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 6 to this Act.
(7) Schedule 8 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part III and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 7 to this Act.
(8) Schedule 11 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part III and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 8 to this Act.
(9) Schedule 14 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part III and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 9 to this Act.
(10) Schedule 15 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part III and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 10 to this Act.
STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SECT 15 Payments made before Royal Assent
15. Payments (including advances) by way of financial assistance made to a State or to the Northern Territory under the Principal Act shall be deemed to have been made for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.
STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 1 Subsection 14 (1) NEW PART III OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT PART III - 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Amounts
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,594,000 Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,050,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25,871,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,428,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,599,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,590,000 Northern Territory. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,868,000 ------------ Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,000,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 2 Subsection 14 (2) GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS - RECURRENT EXPENDITURE PART 1 - LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR RECURRENT GRANTS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS (INCLUSIVE OF MAXIMUM RESOURCE AGREEMENT ALLOCATIONS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Amount per Amount per Amount per Amount per student for student for student for student for 1985 1986 1987 1988 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ 158 174 184 191 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PART II - BASE YEAR LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR RECURRENT GRANTS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Amount per Amount per Amount per student for student for student for 1985 1986 1987 and 1988 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ $ $ 151 167 173 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PART III - LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR RECURRENT GRANTS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS (INCLUSIVE OF MAXIMUM RESOURCE AGREEMENT ALLOCATIONS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Amount per Amount per Amount per Amount per student for student for student for student for 1985 1986 1987 1988 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ 174 204 235 261 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PART IV - BASE YEAR LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR RECURRENT GRANTS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Amount per Amount per Amount per student for student for student for 1985 1986 1987 and 1988 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ 151 184 190 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SCHEDULE 3
SCHEDULE 3 Subsection 14 (3) NEW PART III OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT PART III - 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Name of State Amounts Amounts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,718,000 1,609,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,222,000 1,362,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,021,000 334,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,023,000 335,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,103,000 348,000
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Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277,000 46,000 Northern Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244,000 41,000 ------------------------- Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,608,000 4,075,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SCHEDULE 4
SCHEDULE 4 Subsection 14 (4) NEW PART III OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT PART III - 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Disadvantaged Disadvantaged government non-government Prescribed Name of State schools schools country areas Totals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . 12,056,000 2,429,000 2,757,000 17,242,000 Victoria . . . . . .. . . 10,290,000 2,616,000 1,630,000 14,536,000 Queensland . . . . .. . . . 3,566,000 543,000 2,647,000 6,756,000 Western Australia . . . . 2,832,000 466,000 1,947,000 5,245,000 South Australia . . . . . 2,935,000 307,000 1,147,000 4,389,000 Tasmania . . . . . .. . . . 838,000 89,000 382,000 1,309,000 Northern Territory . . . . 882,000 31,000 410,000 1,323,000 ------------------------------------------------------ Total . . . . .. . . 33,399,000 6,481,000 10,920,000 50,800,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SCHEDULE 5
SCHEDULE 5 Subsection 14 (5) NEW PART III OF SCHEDULE 5 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT PART III - 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Nongovernment Government special special education education (including (including Nongovernmentnon-Government government government Special integration integration integration integration Education Name of State activities) activities activities) activities Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ $ New South Wales . 6,665,000 517,000 1,731,000 148,000 3,202,000 Victoria . . . . .. 4,893,000 379,000 1,606,000 137,000 4,682,000 Queensland . . . .. 3,281,000 255,000 755,000 65,000 1,273,000 Western Australia 1,818,000 140,000 377,000 32,000 773,000 South Australia . 1,718,000 133,000 335,000 28,000 2,765,000 Tasmania . . . . .. 586,000 46,000 111,000 9,000 141,000 Northern Territory. 227,000 18,000 33,000 3,000 112,000 ------------------------------------------------------------ Total . . . . . . 19,188,000 1,488,000 4,948,000 422,000 12,948,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SCHEDULE 6
SCHEDULE 6 Subsection 14 (6) NEW PART III OF SCHEDULE 7 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT PART III - 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Government Non-government schools schools year year commencing commencing Name of State 1 January 1987 1 January 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,906,000 484,000 Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,359,000 428,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 1,068,000 232,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633,000 146,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581,000 137,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 258,000 79,000 Northern Territory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178,000 42,000 ------------------------- Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 5,983,000 1,548,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SCHEDULE 7
SCHEDULE 7 Subsection 14 (7) NEW PART III OF SCHEDULE 8 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT PART III - 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Name of State Amounts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,343,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 15,857,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 8,202,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,026,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,407,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 1,203,000 Northern Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 501,000 ---------- Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 50,539,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SCHEDULE 8
SCHEDULE 8 Subsection 14 (8) NEW PART III OF SCHEDULE II TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT PART III - 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Total of all Total of all Total of all Total of all grants under section grants under grants under grants under 31 for under sections 32 section 73 section 76 non-government and 33 for general for approved for projects schools in need of education in education centres or programs short-term emergency English as a of national assistance second language significance in non-government schools ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ $ $ $ 371,000 10,296,000 1,792,000 1,806,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 37, 1987 - SCHEDULE 9
SCHEDULE 9 Subsection 14 (9) NEW PART III OF SCHEDULE 14 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT PART III - 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Severely Residential Handicapped Name of State institutions children ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ $ New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 879,000 1,409,000 Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670,000 1,075,000 Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440,000 706,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 241,000 387,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 213,000 342,000 Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,000 121,000 Northern Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,000 48,000 ---------------------- Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,548,000 4,088,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------