States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1988 (Cth)

States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1988

No. 141 of 1988

 

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

[Assented to 26 December 1988]

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

Short title etc.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1988.

(2) In this Act, “Principal Act” means the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 19841.

Commencement

2. (1) The amendments of sections 6a and 7aof the Principal Act made by this Act shall be taken to have commenced on 25 May 1988.

(2) The remaining provisions of this Act commence on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Grants for recurrent expenditure of systemic schools

3. Section 28 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (5) the following subsection:

“(5a) Subject to section 29d, the Minister may authorise the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved school system in the State in respect of the year 1988, of such amounts as the Minister determines.”.

Grants for recurrent expenditure of non-systemic schools

4. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (4) the following subsection:

“(4a) Subject to section 29d, the Minister may authorise the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of a non-systemic school situated in the State in respect of the year 1988, of such amounts as the Minister determines.”.

5. After section 29c of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Limits on grants pursuant to subsections 28 (6a) and 29 (4a)

“29d. The Minister shall not authorise payments to the States under subsections 28 (5a) and 29 (4a) that exceed, in the aggregate, $5,600,000.”.

Other amendments of the Principal Act

6. The Principal Act is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Amendments of the Schedules

7. (1) Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is repealed and the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to this Act is substituted.

(2) Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part IV and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 3 to this Act.

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

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

(5) Schedules 9 and 10 of the Principal Act are repealed and the Schedules set out in Schedule 6 to this Act are substituted.

(6) Schedule 11 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part IV and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 7 to this Act.

(7) Schedule 14 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part IV and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 8 to this Act.

(8) Schedule 15 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part IV and substituting the Part set out in Schedule 9 to this Act.

Payments made before Royal Assent

8. Payments (including advances) by way of financial assistance made to a State under the Principal Act shall be taken to have been made for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.

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SCHEDULE 1 Section 6

AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT

Subsection 5 (4):

Omit “$2,082”, substitute “$2,104”.

Paragraph 6a (7) (b):

Add at the end “and”.

Paragraph 6a (7) (c):

Omit the paragraph.

Paragraph 6a (7a) (a):

Add at the end “and”.

Paragraph 6a (7a) (b):

Omit the paragraph.

Paragraph 6a (7b) (b):

Add at the end “and”.

Paragraph 6a (7b) (c):

Omit the paragraph.

Paragraph 6a (17) (d):

Omit the paragraph, substitute the following paragraph:

“(d) the proposed new school, the existing school or the existing school in so far as it provides education at that level or that location, as the case requires, has reasonable prospects of being able to satisfy the requirements of paragraphs 19 (a) and (c) during the year in which the proposed financial assistance is to commence to be provided; and”.

Paragraph 7a (7) (b):

Add at the end “and”.

Paragraph 7a (7) (c):

Omit the paragraph.

Paragraph 7a (7a) (a):

Add at the end “and”.

Paragraph 7a (7a) (b):

Omit the paragraph.

Paragraph 7a (7b) (b):

Add at the end “and”.

SCHEDULE 1—continued

Paragraph 7a (7b) (c):

Omit the paragraph.

Paragraph 7a (17) (d):

Omit the paragraph, substitute the following paragraph:

“(d) the proposed new school, the existing school or the existing school in so far as it provides education at that level or that location, as the case requires, has reasonable prospects of being able to satisfy the requirements of paragraphs 19 (a) and (c) during the year in which the proposed financial assistance is to commence to be provided; and”.

Subsection 70c (2):

Omit “$214,000”, substitute “$216,000”.

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SCHEDULE 2 Subsection 7 (1)

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 student for 1985	Amount per student for 1986	Amount per student for 1987	Amount per student for 1988
				$	$	$	$
				158	174	185	199

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

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Amount per student for 1985	Amount per student for 1986	Amount per student for 1987	Amount per student for 1988
				$	$	$	$
				151	167	173	179

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 student for 1985	Amount per student for 1986	Amount per student for 1987	Amount per student for 1988
				$	$	$	$
				174	204	237	272

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

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Amount per student for 1985	Amount per student for 1986	Amount per student for 1987	Amount per student for 1988
				$	$	$	$
				151	184	191	198

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SCHEDULE 3 Subsection 7 (2)

NEW PART IV OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART IV—1988

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of State	Amounts	Amounts
$	$
New South Wales...............................................	10,109,000	1,673,000
Victoria..............................................................	8,554,000	1,416,000
Queensland........................................................	2,101,000	348,000
Western Australia...............................................	2,105,000	348,000
South Australia..................................................	2,188,000	362,000
Tasmania...........................................................	288,000	47,000
Northern Territory..............................................	253,000	42,000
Total.........................................................	25,598,000	4,236,000

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SCHEDULE 4 Subsection 7 (3)

NEW PART IV OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART IV-1988

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Name of State	Disadvantaged government schools	Disadvantaged non-government schools	Prescribed country areas	Totals
					$	$	$	$
					New South Wales........	12,541,000	2,525,000	2,867,000	17,933,000
Victoria.......................	10,705,000	2,721,000	1,695,000	15,121,000
Queensland.................	3,707,000	565,000	2,755,000	7,027,000
Western Australia........	2,947,000	485,000	2,026,000	5,458,000
South Australia...........	3,054,000	320,000	1,193,000	4,567,000
Tasmania....................	872,000	93,000	398,000	1,363,000
Northern Territory.......	918,000	33,000	426,000	1,377,000
Total....................	34,744,000	6,742,000	11,360,000	52,846,000

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SCHEDULE 5 Subsection 7 (4)

NEW PART IV OF SCHEDULE 5 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART IV-1988

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6
Name of State	Government special education (including government integration activities)	Government integration activities	Non-government special education (including non-government integration activities)	Non-government integration activities	Special Education Services
$	$	$	$	$
New South Wales...................	6,954,000	539,000	1,802,000	154,000	3,449,000
Victoria.....................................	5,027,000	390,000	1,667,000	143,000	4,870,000
Queensland..............................	3,447,000	267,000	777,000	66,000	1,525,000
Western Australia...................	1,909,000	148,000	401,000	34,000	894,000
South Australia.......................	1,772,000	137,000	352,000	31,000	2,876,000
Tasmania.................................	608,000	47,000	114,000	9,000	206,000
Northern Territory..................	242,000	19,000	34,000	3,000	124,000
Total...................................	19,959,000	1,547,000	5,147,000	440,000	13,944,000

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SCHEDULE 6 Subsection 7 (5)

NEW SCHEDULES 9 AND 10 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

SCHEDULE 9 Sections 28 and 29

NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS—RECURRENT EXPENDITURE PART I—LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR RECURRENT

EXPENDITURE FOR NON-GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOLS (INCLUSIVE OF MAXIMUM RESOURCE AGREEMENT ALLOCATIONS)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Level of assistance	Amount per student for year 1985	Amount per student for year 1986	Amount per student for year 1987	Amount per student for year 1988
					1................................................................	284	299	311	321
2................................................................	378	399	414	428
3................................................................	386	418	445	479
4................................................................	571	603	626	647
5................................................................	578	619	654	698
6................................................................	583	632	679	731
7................................................................	588	645	702	771
8................................................................	785	840	887	940
9................................................................	787	848	905	966
10................................................................	791	858	923	993
11................................................................	794	867	940	1021
12................................................................	798	876	958	1049

 

SCHEDULE 6— continued

PART II—BASE YEAR LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR NON-GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Level of assistance	Amount per student for year 1985	Amount per student for year 1986	Amount per student for year 1987	Amount per student for year 1988
					1............................................	284	299	311	321
					2............................................	378	399	414	428
3............................................	378	408	423	438
4............................................	571	603	626	647
5............................................	571	610	633	655
6............................................	571	615	639	661
7............................................	571	621	645	667
8............................................	777	829	860	890
9............................................	777	831	863	892
10............................................	777	834	866	896
11............................................	777	838	870	900
12............................................	777	842	874	904

PART III—LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR NON-GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS (INCLUSIVE OF MAXIMUM RESOURCE AGREEMENT ALLOCATIONS)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Level of assistance	Amount per student for year 1985	Amount per student for year 1986	Amount per student for year 1987	Amount per student for year 1988
					1............................................	449	474	492	509
					2............................................	599	632	656	679
3............................................	607	649	687	731
4............................................	908	959	995	1029
5............................................	913	969	1014	1063
6............................................	921	989	1050	1122
7............................................	929	1009	1089	1182
8............................................	1238	1313	1373	1429
9............................................	1243	1328	1401	1473
10............................................	1249	1344	1430	1518
11............................................	1254	1357	1452	1557
12............................................	1259	1369	1477	1597

 

SCHEDULE 6— continued

PART IV—BASE YEAR LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR NON-GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Level of assistance	Amount per student for year 1985	Amount per student for year 1986	Amount per student for year 1987	Amount per student for year 1988
					1...................................................	449	474	492	509
2...................................................	599	632	656	679
3...................................................	599	640	665	687
4...................................................	908	959	995	1029
5...................................................	908	963	1000	1034
6...................................................	908	972	1009	1044
7...................................................	908	980	1018	1052
8...................................................	1235	1306	1356	1403
9...................................................	1235	1312	1362	1409
10..................................................	1235	1318	1368	1415
11..................................................	1235	1323	1374	1421
12..................................................	1235	1329	1380	1427

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SCHEDULE 10 Sections 28 and 29

NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS—SUPPLEMENTARY ESTABLISHMENT GRANTS

PART I—NON-GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Year of establishment	Amount per primary student in 1985	Amount per primary student in 1986	Amount per primary student in 1987	Amount per primary student in 1988
					1982..................................................	47	0	0	0
1983..................................................	94	50	0	0
1984..................................................	141	99	52	0
1985..................................................	188	149	103	53
1986..................................................	0	199	155	107
1987..................................................	0	0	206	160
1988..................................................	0	0	0	213

PART II—NON-GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Year of establishment	Amount per secondary student in 1985	Amount per secondary student in 1986	Amount per secondary student in 1987	Amount per secondary student in 1988
					1982................................................	75	0	0	0
1983................................................	150	79	0	0
1984................................................	225	158	82	0
1985................................................	300	237	164	85
1986................................................	0	316	246	170
1987................................................	0	0	328	255
1988................................................	0	0	0	339

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SCHEDULE 7 Subsection 7 (6)

NEW PART IV OF SCHEDULE 11 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART IV—1988

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Total of all additional grants under section 31 for non-government schools in need of short-term emergency assistance	Total of all grants under sections 32 and 33 for general education in English as a second language in non-government schools	Total of all grants under section 73 for approved education centres	Total of all grants under section 76 for projects or programs of national significance
				$	$	$	$
				386,000	10,684,000	1,864,000	1,879,000

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SCHEDULE 8 Subsection 7 (7)

NEW PART IV OF SCHEDULE 14 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART IV—1988

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of State	Residential institutions	Severely handicapped children
			$	$
			New South Wales...............................................................................	915,000	1,466,000
Victoria.................................................................................................	697,000	1,118,000
Queensland..........................................................................................	458,000	734,000
Western Australia...............................................................................	251,000	403,000
South Australia...................................................................................	221,000	356,000
Tasmania.............................................................................................	78,000	126,000
Northern Territory..............................................................................	31,000	50,000
Total.........................................................................................	2,651,000	4,253,000

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SCHEDULE 9 Subsection 7 (8)

NEW PART IV OF SCHEDULE 15 TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

PART IV—1988

Column 1	Column 2
Name of State	Amounts
$
New South Wales...................................................................................	1,553,000
Victoria..................................................................................................	1,143,000
Queensland............................................................................................	675,000
Western Australia...................................................................................	394,000
South Australia......................................................................................	454,000
Tasmania...............................................................................................	129,000
Northern Territory..................................................................................	58,000
Total.............................................................................................	4,406,000

NOTE

1. No. 126, 1984, as amended. For previous amendments, see Nos. 60 and 163, 1985; Nos. 66 and 155, 1986; Nos. 37 and 122, 1987; and No. 61, 1988.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 3 November 1988

Senate on 25 November 1988