Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance 1998-2000) Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 1) 1998 No. 279
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1998 NO. 279
Minute No. 11 of 1998 - Minister for Employment. Education. Training and Youth Affairs
Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance) Act 1989
Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance 1998-2000) Amendment Regulations 1998
Section 15 of the Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance) Act 1989 (the Act), provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.
The purpose of these regulation is to amend the Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance 19982000) Regulations 1998 [No. 88 of 1998] (the regulations) to allow the payment of cost supplementation for funds to organisations and institutions to supplement the cost of delivering educational services to Indigenous students for the period 1 January 1998 to 30 June 1999.
Section 13C of the Act provides that the regulations may state numbers to be used to vary the amounts appropriated by subsections 13B(4), (5), (6) and (7). The amounts are to be supplemented to reflect inflation by multiplying the amounts in the relevant subsections of section 13B by a "stated number" specified in the regulations.
These regulations amend the regulations by specifying "stated numbers" for the periods 1 January 1997 to 30 June 1998 and 1 January 1998 to 30 June 1999 to supplement funding appropriated by subsections 13B(5) and 13B(6) respectively. The "stated number" for subsection 13B(5) cost supplementation was previously provided for in the regulations and is unchanged. Funding appropriated by subsection 13B(7) for the period 1 January 1999 to 30 June 2000, will be adjusted by numbers specified in regulations to be made during that period.
The stated number reflects movements in an Index determined as appropriate by the Minister for Finance and Administration. The index determined for this purpose is the Wage Cost Index Number 1 (WCI1) which is a composite index comprising 75 per cent Safety Net Adjustment and 25 per cent Treasury Measurement of Underlying Inflation. The latest available WCI1 is for the 1997/98 financial year.
The regulations have the effect of providing for the appropriation for the period 1 January 1998 to 30 June 1999 to be supplemented for a 1.8% movement in the WCI1 index between the 1996/97 and 1997/98 financial years, resulting in a stated number of 1.018.
The regulations will provide an additional $2.0 million in supplementary assistance for the period 1 January 1998 to 30 June 1.999.
A Regulation Impact Statement is not required because the regulations have no impact on business.
The regulations commence on the date of Gazettal.