States Grants (Schools Assistance) Legislation Amendment Act 1985 (Cth)

States Grants (Schools Assistance) Legislation Amendment Act 1985

No. 60 of 1985

 

An Act to amend the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1984 and the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983, and for related purposes

[Assented to 4 June 1985]

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

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Legislation Amendment Act 1985.

Commencement

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

 

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984

Principal Act

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

Determination of levels of funding for eligible new arrivals

4. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “$902” and substituting “$918”.

List of systemic schools and list of approved school systems

5. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (4) (c) “exisiting” and substituting “existing”.

List of non-systemic schools

6. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-paragraph (9) (a) (ii) “systemic” and substituting “non-systemic”.

Limits on grants under section 22

7. Section 23 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) “$5,331,000” (wherever occurring) and substituting “$5,429,000”.

Grants for recurrent expenditure of non-systemic schools

8. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-paragraph (5) (b) (i) “, in such respective proportions as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines,”.

Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with general education in English as a second language provided in connection with systemic schools

9. Section 32 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-paragraph (2) (b) (iii) “Commonwealh” and substituting “Commonwealth”.

Grants for expenditure of systemic disadvantaged schools

10. Section 37 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “the approved authority, before or at the time of accepting the first payment under the section,” and substituting “the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the approved authority”.

Limits on grants under sections 47 and 48

11. Section 49 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) “$1,376,000” (wherever occurring) and substituting “$1,401,000”.

 

Limits on grants under section 52

12. Section 53 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) “$5,384,000” and substituting “$5,471,000”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) “$2,154,000” and substituting “$2,188,000”.

Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with multicultural education

13. Section 54 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) “1984” and substituting “1985”.

Repeal and substitution of Schedules to Principal Act

14. (1) Schedules 1 to 8 (inclusive) to the Principal Act are repealed and the Schedules set out in Schedule 1 to this Act are substituted.

(2) Schedules 11 to 16 (inclusive) to the Principal Act are repealed and the Schedules set out in Schedule 2 to this Act are substituted.

PART III—AMENDMENTS OF THE STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1983

Principal Act

15. The States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 19832 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.

Grants for expenditure in connection with special education at non-government schools, &c.

16. Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following sub-section:

“(8) Without prejudice to the meaning of the expression ‘in respect of the year 1984’ in any other provision of this Act, an amount shall be taken, for the purposes of sub-sections (3) and (4), to have been applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in respect of the year 1984 in connection with special education or to have been applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in respect of the year 1984 in connection with prescribed special education if that amount has been applied for the purpose of meeting expenditure in respect of a program of special education, or a program of prescribed special education, as the case requires, that commenced in that year.”.

Repeal and substitution of Schedule 5 to Principal Act

17. Schedule 5 to the Principal Act is repealed and the Schedule set out in Schedule 3 to this Act is substituted.

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SCHEDULE 1 Sub-section 13 (1)

NEW SCHEDULES 1 TO 8 (INCLUSIVE) TO THE STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984

SCHEDULE 1 Section 9

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS—BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS

Column 1 Name of State	Column 2 General capital	Column 3 Prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (a) of definition of “prescribed purpose”	Column 4 Prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (b) of definition of “prescribed purpose”	Column 5 Prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (c) of definition of “prescribed purpose”	Column 6 Prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (d) of definition of “prescribed purpose”	Column 7 Total
$	$	$	$	$	$
New South Wales..................................	33,368,000	7,751,000	5,049,000	4,133,000	4,637,000	54,938,000
Victoria..................................	24,735,000	6,213,000	3,776,000	3,091,000	3,536,000	41,351,000
Queensland..................................	17,229,000	2,989,000	2,421,000	1,981,000	2,320,000	26,940,000
Western Australia..................................	9,218,000	1,949,000	1,358,000	1,112,000	1,319,000	14,956,000
South Australia..................................	8,624,000	1,964,000	1,333,000	1,091,000	1,278,000	14,290,000
Tasmania..................................	2,859,000	609,000	443,000	363,000	430,000	4,704,000
Northern Territory..................................	1,196,000	407,000	159,000	130,000	142,000	2,034,000
Totals........................	97,229,000	21,882,000	14,539,000	11,901,000	13,662,000	159,213,000

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SCHEDULE 1— continued

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 Amount per student for 1985	Column 2 Amount per student for 1986	Column 3 Amount per student for 1987	Column 4 Amount per student for 1988
$	$	$	$
157	163	167	173

PART II—BASE YEAR

LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE

FOR RECURRENT GRANTS

FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Column 1 Amount per student for 1985	Column 2 Amount per student for each of years 1986, 1987 and 1988
$	$
149	157

PART III—LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE FOR

RECURRENT GRANTS FOR SECONDARY

SCHOOLS (INCLUSIVE OF MAXIMUM

RESOURCE AGREEMENT ALLOCATIONS)

Column 1 Amount per student for 1985	Column 2 Amount per student for 1986	Column 3 Amount per student for 1987	Column 4 Amount per student for 1988
$	$	$	$
173	192	214	237

 

SCHEDULE 1— continued

PART IV—BASE YEAR

LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE

FOR RECURRENT GRANTS

FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Column 1 Amount per student for 1985	Column 2 Amount per student for each of years 1986, 1987 and 1988
$	$
149	173

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SCHEDULE 3 Section 13

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS—GENERAL

EDUCATION IN ENGLISH AS A

SECOND LANGUAGE

Column 1 Name of State	Column 2 Amounts
$
New South Wales...........................	16,055,000
Victoria.........................................	14,982,000
Queensland....................................	2,642,000
Western Australia...........................	3,522,000
South Australia..............................	4,159,000
Tasmania.......................................	537,000
Northern Territory..........................	377,000
Total..................................	42,274,000

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SCHEDULE 1— continued

SCHEDULE 4 Sections 16, 37, 38 and 62

DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS AND PRESCRIBED COUNTRY AREAS

Column 1 Name of State	Column 2 Disadvantaged government schools	Column 3 Disadvantaged non-government schools	Column 4 Prescribed country areas	Column 5 Totals
$	$	$	$
New South Wales...	10,958,000	2,207,000	2,613,000	15,778,000
Victoria..................	9,352,000	2,377,000	1,546,000	13,275,000
Queensland.............	3,241,000	494,000	2,509,000	6,244,000
Western Australia...	2,574,000	424,000	1,845,000	4,843,000
South Australia.......	2,667,000	280,000	1,087,000	4,034,000
Tasmania................	762,000	80,000	362,000	1,204,000
Northern Territory...	802,000	28,000	388,000	1,218,000
Totals............	30,356,000	5,890,000	10,350,000	46,596,000

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SCHEDULE 5 Sections 18 and 40

SPECIAL EDUCATION (INCLUDING INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
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
$	$	$	$
New South Wales	7,114,000	491,000	1,888,000	142,000
Victoria..............	5,321,000	369,000	1,757,000	132,000
Queensland.........	3,410,000	235,000	810,000	61,000
Western Australia	1,912,000	131,000	403,000	30,000
South Australia...	1,878,000	129,000	363,000	28,000
Tasmania............	625,000	44,000	49,000	9,000
Northern Territory	224,000	16,000	10,000	2,000
Totals..........	20,484,000	1,415,000	5,280,000	404,000

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SCHEDULE 1— continued

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..............................	1,646,000	1,646,000
Victoria.............................................	1,367,000	1,367,000
Queensland........................................	720,000	720,000
Western Australia..............................	476,000	476,000
South Australia..................................	514,000	514,000
Tasmania...........................................	254,000	254,000
Northern Territory..............................	145,000	145,000
Totals.......................................	5,122,000	5,122,000

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SCHEDULE 7 Sections 22, 47 and 48

PROGRAMS OF BASIC LEARNING

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of State	Government schools year commencing 1 January 1985	Non-government schools year commencing 1 January 1986
$	$
New South Wales.......................	1,719,000	435,000
Victoria......................................	1,244,000	385,000
Queensland................................	952,000	213,000
Western Australia.......................	570,000	133,000
South Australia..........................	536,000	127,000
Tasmania...................................	243,000	76,000
Northern Territory......................	165,000	32,000
Total.................................	5,429,000	1,401,000

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SCHEDULE 1—continued

SCHEDULE 8 Section 26

NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS—BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT PROJECTS

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6
Name of State	General capital	Prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (a) of definition of “prescribed purpose”	Prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (b) of definition of “prescribed purpose”	Prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (c) of definition of “prescribed purpose”	Total
$	$	$	$	$
New South Wales............................................	12,787,000	1,588,000	1,938,000	1,541,000	17,854,000
Victoria............................................	10,906,000	1,598,000	1,853,000	1,539,000	15,896,000
Queensland............................................	7,335,000	514,000	832,000	747,000	9,428,000
Western Australia............................................	3,381,000	322,000	415,000	370,000	4,488,000
South Australia............................................	2,673,000	251,000	373,000	305,000	3,602,000
Tasmania............................................	1,105,000	78,000	122,000	102,000	1,407,000
Northern Territory............................................	726,000	25,000	36,000	23,000	810,000
Totals...................................	38,913,000	4,376,000	5,569,000	4,627,000	53,485,000

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SCHEDULE 2 Sub-section 13 (2)

NEW SCHEDULES 11 TO 16 (INCLUSIVE) TO THE STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1984

SCHEDULE 11 Sections 31, 32, 33, 73 and 76

MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS

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
$	$	$	$
650,000	18,139,000	2,422,000	1,840,000

SCHEDULE 12 Sections 43 and 44

NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS—COMPUTER EDUCATION

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of State	Non-government schools year commencing 1 January 1985	Non-government schools year commencing 1 January 1986
$	$
New South Wales.........................................	358,000	358,000
Victoria........................................................	361,000	361,000
Queensland..................................................	189,000	189,000
Western Australia.........................................	122,000	122,000
South Australia............................................	113,000	113,000
Tasmania.....................................................	75,000	75,000
Northern Territory........................................	33,000	33,000
Total................................................	1,251,000	1,251,000

   

SCHEDULE 2— continued

SCHEDULE 13 Sections 54 and 57

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

PART I—AMOUNTS OF GRANTS

TO STATES

Column 1	Column 2
Name of State	Amounts
$
New South Wales................	1,579,000
Victoria...............................	1,251,000
Queensland.........................	737,000
Western Australia................	405,000
South Australia....................	389,000
Tasmania............................	129,000
Northern Territory...............	53,000
Total..........................	4,543,000

PART II—GRANTS IN RELATION

TO APPROVED MULTICULTURAL

EDUCATION PROJECTS OF

NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE

TOTAL OF GRANTS—$403,000

 

SCHEDULE 14 Sections 64 and 66

RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTIONS AND

SEVERELY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of State	Residential institutions	Severely handicapped children
$	$
New South Wales......	806,000	1,274,000
Victoria....................	639,000	992,000
Queensland...............	377,000	638,000
Western Australia......	206,000	347,000
South Australia.........	199,000	315,000
Tasmania..................	66,000	110,000
Northern Territory.....	23,000	40,000
Totals...........	2,316,000	3,716,000

   

SCHEDULE 2— continued

SCHEDULE 15 Section 69

EARLY SPECIAL EDUCATION

PART I—AMOUNTS OF GRANTS TO STATES

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of State	Government purposes	Non-government purposes
$	$
New South Wales....	586,000	154,000
Victoria...................	438,000	144,000
Queensland.............	282,000	66,000
Western Australia....	158,000	33,000
South Australia........	155,000	30,000
Tasmania................	51,000	3,000
Northern Territory...	18,000	1,000
Totals............	1,688,000	431,000

PART II—TOTAL OF NATIONAL

ALLOCATIONS—$1,800,000

 

SCHEDULE 16 Section 71

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

PART I—AMOUNTS OF GRANTS

TO STATES

Column 1	Column 2
Name of State	Amounts
$
New South Wales...................	3,928,000
Victoria..................................	2,772,000
Queensland............................	2,163,000
Western Australia...................	962,000
South Australia.......................	889,000
Tasmania...............................	288,000
Northern Territory..................	142,000
Total.............................	11,144,000

 

SCHEDULE 2— continued

PART II—GRANTS IN RELATION

TO APPROVED PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES FOR

SPECIAL PURPOSES

TOTAL OF GRANTS—$183,000

SCHEDULE 3 Section 17

NEW SCHEDULE 5 TO STATES GRANTS (SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE) ACT 1983

SCHEDULE 5 Sections 15, 16, 34 and 35

SPECIAL EDUCATION (INCLUDING INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
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
$	$	$	$
New South Wales	7,497,000	479,000	1,992,000	139,000
Victoria...............	5,606,000	358,000	1,845,000	128,000
Queensland..........	3,525,000	225,000	849,000	59,000
Western Australia	1,998,000	127,000	418,000	29,000
South Australia....	1,993,000	127,000	374,000	26,000
Tasmania.............	664,000	43,000	51,000	9,000
Northern Territory	229,000	15,000	12,000	2,000
Totals...........	21,512,000	1,374,000	5,541,000	392,000

NOTES

1. No. 126, 1984.

2. No. 119, 1983, as amended. For previous amendments, see Nos. 49 and 126, 1984.

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 9 May 1985

Senate on 20 May 1985