Education Act Amendment Act 1965 (WA)

No. 17.] Education. [1965.

EDUCATION.

No. 17 of 1965.

AN ACT to amend the Education Act, 1928-1964.

[Assented to 1st October, 1965.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Education

Act Amendment Act, 1965.

Rprinted e

in Vol. 16 (2) In this Act the Education Act, 1928-1964, is

of the

Reprinted referred to as the principal Act.

Acts.

Approved

for reprint, (3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

22nd Novem-

ber, 1962, and may be cited as the Education Act, 1928-1965.

amended by

Act No. 26

of 1964.

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2. Section nine A of the principal Act is a:ended.

amended

(a)	by inserting after the word, "price", in line seven of paragraph (a), the passage, ", or to provide and construct swimming pools";
(b)	by inserting after the word, "buildings" in line eight of paragraph (a), the passage, "except as provided by this Act,";
(c)	by inserting after the word, "purchase", in line thirteen of paragraph (a), the passage, ", cr as the case may be, that swimming pool,";
(d)	by deleting the word, "and", at the end of paragraph (a);
(e)	by substituting for the passage, "schools.", in the last line of paragraph (b), the passage, "schools; and"; and
(f)	by adding after paragraph (b), the follow- ing paragraph

(c) the issue, for use in efficient primary schools, of such school supplies as are from time to time prescribed. .

3. The principal Act is amended by adding after 9B and

ss.

9C added.

section nine A, the following sections-

9B. (1) The Treasurer of the State shall in every year, commencing with the year nineteen	Tuition tees at efficient
schools to be subsi-
hundred and sixty-five, place at the disposal	dthed.
of the Minister, in addition to the moneys referred to in section nine A of this Act, such moneys as will enable the Minister to pay to efficient schools at which fees are payable for tuition of its scholars, the amounts specified in subsection (2) of this section in respect of scholars who, being residents of the State, are engaged in taking a course of secondary education at that school but who are not in receipt of any scholarship, bursary or like award the value of which exceeds forty pounds per annum.

No. 17.] Education. [1965.

(2) The amounts payable pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall be

(a)	in the case of a scholar to whom that subsection applies and who is in the first, second or third year of a course of secondary education, the sum of fifteen pounds per annum; and
(b)	in the case of a scholar to whom that subsection applies and who is in the fourth or fifth year of a course of secondary education, the sum of eighteen pounds per annum,

and those amounts shall in every year, commencing with the year nineteen hundred and sixty-five, be paid to efficient schools at such times, in such manner and subject to such conditions as the Minister determines from time to time by regulations made by him under this Act.

Subsidisa-

tion of	9C. Where an efficient school borrows, or
proportion

of interest	has since the first day of January, nineteen
on certain
loans raised	hundred and sixty-five borrowed, money for
schools,
by efficient	the purpose of constructing residential accom- modation for scholars who attend that school, or for the purpose of converting any existing property of that school or acquiring any property for conversion by that school into residential accommodation for those scholars, the Minister may reimburse that school such proportion of the interest paid by it on the money so borrowed as does not exceed such rate as the Treasurer of the State determines and is hereby authorised to determine from time to time, on the amount of that money for the time being remaining unpaid, subject to the principal sum of the money so borrowed being reduced annually by such sum as the Treasurer may from time to time require; and the Treasurer shall in every year place at the disposal of the Minister such moneys as are necessary for the purposes of this section.

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4. Section twenty-eight of the principal Act is BAL./.

amended by adding after paragraph (p1) of

subsection (1), the following paragraph

(p2) The determination of the times when, the manner in which, and the conditions upon which, moneys referred to in section nine B of this Act shall be paid to efficient schools. .