States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Act 1986 (Cth)

States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Act 1986

No. 66 of 1986

    

An Act to amend the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1984, and for related purposes

[Assented to 24 June 1986]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Act 1986.

(2) The States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 19841 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Determination of levels of funding for eligible new arrivals

3. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) “$932” and substituting “$957”.

 

Limits on grants under section 22

4. Section 23 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) “$5,512,000” and substituting “$5,659,000”.

Grants for building projects and equipment projects in connection with non-government schools and non-government centres

5. Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-paragraph (2) (b) (i) “in respect of that year” (first occurring).

Limit on grants under section 26, &c.

6. Section 27 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (3) “$2,679,000” and substituting “$2,783,000”.

Limit on grants under section 40

7. Section 41 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) “$12,797,000” and substituting “$13,139,000”.

Limits on grants under sections 47 and 48

8. Section 49 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) “$1,425,000” and substituting “$1,463,000”.

Limits on grants under section 52

9. Section 53 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (2) (a) “$5,665,000” and substituting “$5,885,000”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “$2,266,000” and substituting “$2,354,000”.

Approval of programs of ethnic education and determination of levels of funding

10. Section 60 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (2) (a) “$34” and substituting “$35”.

Amendments of Schedules

11. (1) Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II 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(2) Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is repealed and the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to this Act is substituted.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 II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 3 to this Act.

(4) Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 4 to this Act.

(5) Schedule 5 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 5 to this Act.

(6) Schedule 6 to the Principal Act is repealed and the Schedule set out in Schedule 6 to this Act is substituted.

 

(7) Schedule 7 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 7 to this Act.

(8) Schedule 8 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 8 to this Act.

(9) Schedule 11 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 9 to this Act.

(10) Schedule 12 to the Principal Act is repealed and the Schedule set out in Schedule 10 to this Act is substituted.

(11) Schedule 13 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 11 to this Act.

(12) Schedule 14 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 12 to this Act.

(13) Schedule 15 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 13 to this Act.

(14) Schedule 16 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part II and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 14 to this Act.

Payments made before Royal Assent

12. 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.

   

SCHEDULE 1 Sub-section 9 (1)

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Column 1	Column 2
Name of State	Amounts
$
New South Wales...............................................................................................	53,645,000
Victoria.................................................................................................................	40,279,000
Queensland..........................................................................................................	26,380,000
Western Australia...............................................................................................	14,793,000
South Australia....................................................................................................	13,903,000
Tasmania..............................................................................................................	4,650,000
Northern Territory..............................................................................................	1,973,000
Total......................................................................................................................	155,623,000

 

SCHEDULE 2 Sub-section 9 (2)

NEW SCHEDULE 2 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

SCHEDULE 2 Section 11

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS—RECURRENT EXPENDITURE

PART I—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	170	174	181

 

PART II—BASE YEAR LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR RECURRENT GRANTS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Column 1	Column 2
Amount per	Amount per student
student for	for each of years
1985	1986, 1987 and 1988
$	$
151	163

 

SCHEDULE 2—continued

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	200	223	247

 

PART IV—BASE YEAR LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR RECURRENT GRANTS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Column 1	Column 2
Amount per	Amount per student
student for	for each of years
1985	1986, 1987 and 1988
$	$
151	180

  

SCHEDULE 3 Sub-section 9 (3)

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II — 1986

 

Column 1	Column 2
Name of State	Amounts
$
New South Wales...............................................................................................	16,372,000
Victoria.................................................................................................................	14,550,000
Queensland..........................................................................................................	3,056,000
Western Australia...............................................................................................	3,498,000
South Australia....................................................................................................	3,886,000
Tasmania..............................................................................................................	506,000
Northern Territory..............................................................................................	397,000
Total...........................................................................................................	42,265,000

    

SCHEDULE 4 Sub-section 9 (4)

 

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Disadvantaged
Disadvantaged	non-
government	government	Prescribed
Name of State	schools	schools	country areas	Totals
$	$	$	$
New South Wales...............	11,413,000	2,299,000	2,611,000	16,323,000
Victoria.................................	9,741,000	2,476,000	1,543,000	13,760,000
Queensland..........................	3,374,000	514,000	2,506,000	6,394,000
Western Australia...............	2,681,000	442,000	1,843,000	4,966,000
South Australia....................	2,779,000	291,000	1,086,000	4,156,000
Tasmania..............................	794,000	84,000	361,000	1,239,000
Northern Territory..............	835,000	29,000	388,000	1,252,000
Total............................	31,617,000	6,135,000	10,338,000	48,090,000

 

SCHEDULE 5 Sub-section 9 (5)

 

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 5 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Non-
Government	government
special	special
education	education
(including	(including	Non-
government	Government	government	government
integration	integration	integration	integration
Name of State	activities)	activities	activities)	activities
$	$	$	$
New South Wales...............	7,099,000	489,000	1,872,000	140,000
Victoria................................	5,276,000	364,000	1,762,000	132,000
Queensland..........................	3,446,000	237,000	810,000	60,000
Western Australia...............	1,926,000	133,000	408,000	31,000
South Australia...................	1,852,000	127,000	358,000	26,000
Tasmania..............................	625,000	43,000	48,000	8,000
Northern Territory..............	232,000	16,000	12,000	3,000
Total...........................	20,456,000	1,409,000	5,270,000	400,000

   

SCHEDULE 6 Sub-section 9 (6)

NEW SCHEDULE 6 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

SCHEDULE 6 Section 20

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS—COMPUTER EDUCATION

Column 1     Name of State	Column 2 Government schools year commencing 1 January 1985	Column 3 Government schools year commencing 1 January 1986
$	$
New South Wales...............................................	1,662,000	1,728,000
Victoria................................................................	1,380,000	1,407,000
Queensland..........................................................	727,000	784,000
Western Australia...............................................	480,000	501,000
South Australia...................................................	519,000	520,000
Tasmania..............................................................	257,000	255,000
Northern Territory..............................................	147,000	144,000
Total..........................................................	5,172,000	5,339,000

  

SCHEDULE 7 Sub-section 9 (7)

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 7 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Government	Non-government
schools year	schools year
commencing	commencing
Name of State	1 January 1986	1 January 1986
New South Wales...............................................	$ 1,795,000	$ 452,000
Victoria................................................................	1,292,000	403,000
Queensland..........................................................	1,002,000	219,000
Western Australia..............................................	596,000	138,000
South Australia...................................................	553,000	131,000
Tasmania.............................................................	250,000	78,000
Northern Territory.............................................	171,000	42,000
Total............................................................	5,659,000	1,463,000

   

SCHEDULE 8 Sub-section 9 (8)

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 8 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Column 1	Column 2
Name of State	Amounts
$
New South Wales...............................................................................................	17,415,000
Victoria.................................................................................................................	15,687,000
Queensland..........................................................................................................	8,918,000
Western Australia...............................................................................................	4,296,000
South Australia....................................................................................................	3,465,000
Tasmania..............................................................................................................	1,295,000
Northern Territory .............................................................................................	680,000
Total............................................................................................................	51,756,000

       

SCHEDULE 9 Sub-section 9 (9)

 

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 11 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Total of all additional	Total of all grants under
grants under section 31	sections 32 and 33 for	Total of all grants
for non-government	general education in	Total of all grants	under section 76
schools in need of short-	English as a second	under section 73 for	for projects or
term emergency	language in non-	approved education	programs of natural
assistance	government schools	centres	significance
$ 678,000	$ 17,969,000	$ 2,522,000	$ 1,700,000

     

SCHEDULE 10 Sub-section 9 (10)

NEW SCHEDULE 12 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

SCHEDULE 12 Sections 43 and 44

NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS COMPUTER EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2		Column 3
Non-government		Non-government
schools year		schools year
commencing		commencing
Name of State	1 January 1985		1 January 1986
$		$
New South Wales.......................................................		362,000	379,000
Victoria........................................................................		365,000	381,000
Queensland..................................................................		190,000	200,000
Western Australia.......................................................		123,000	124,000
South Australia...........................................................		115,000	114,000
Tasmania......................................................................		76,000	75,000
Northern Territory......................................................		33,000	34,000
Total....................................................................		1,264,000	1,307,000

   

SCHEDULE 11 Sub-section 9 (11)

 

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 13 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Division 1—Amounts of Grants to States

Column 1	Column 2
Name of State	Amounts
$
New South Wales...........................................................................................	1,574,000
Victoria............................................................................................................	1,244,000
Queensland......................................................................................................	744,000
Western Australia...........................................................................................	406,000
South Australia...............................................................................................	384,000
Tasmania..........................................................................................................	130,000
Northern Territory..........................................................................................	53,000
Total.........................................................................................................	4,535,000

 

schedule 11—continued

Division 2—Grants in relation to approved multicultural education projects of national significance

TOTAL OF GRANTS—$320,000

 

schedule 12 Sub-section 9 (12)

 

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 14 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Severely
Residential	handicapped
Name of State	institutions	children
$	$
New South Wales.......................................................................	838,000	1,328,000
Victoria........................................................................................	664,000	1,028,000
Queensland..................................................................................	396,000	668,000
Western Australia.......................................................................	216,000	364,000
South Australia...........................................................................	204,000	326,000
Tasmania......................................................................................	69,000	114,000
Northern Territory......................................................................	25,000	43,000
Total...................................................................................	2,412,000	3,871,000

schedule 13 Sub-section 9 (13)

 

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 15 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Division 1—Amounts of grants to States

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Non-
Government	government
Name of State	purposes	purposes
New South Wales.......................................................................	$ 610,000	$ 159,000
Victoria........................................................................................	453,000	151,000
Queensland..................................................................................	296,000	69,000
Western Australia.......................................................................	166,000	35,000
South Australia...........................................................................	159,000	31,000
Tasmania......................................................................................	54,000	3,000
Northern Territory......................................................................	20,000	1,000
Total..............................................................................................	1,758,000	449,000

   

SCHEDULE 13—continued

Division 2—National allocations

TOTAL—$1,812,000

  

SCHEDULE 14 Sub-section 9 (14)

 

NEW PART II OF SCHEDULE 16 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART II—1986

Division 1—Amounts of grants to States

Column 1	Column 2
Name of State	Amounts
$
New South Wales...................................................................................................	4,089,000
Victoria....................................................................................................................	2,877,000
Queensland..............................................................................................................	2,268,000
Western Australia..................................................................................................	1,007,000
South Australia.......................................................................................................	916,000
Tasmania.................................................................................................................	300,000
Northern Territory.................................................................................................	149,000
Total.............................................................................................................	11,606,000

  

Division 2—Grants in relation to approved professional development activities for special purposes

TOTAL OF GRANTS—$191,000

 

NOTE

1. No. 126, 1984, as amended. For previous amendments, see Nos. 60 and 163, 1985.

  

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 30 April 1986

Senate on 27 May 1986