States Grants (Independent Schools)

No. 7 of 1972

An Act relating to the Grant of Financial Assistance to the States in relation to Independent Schools.

[Assented to 24 March 1972]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Independent Schools) Act 1972.

(2.) The States Grants (Independent Schools) Act 1969 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Independent Schools) Act 1969–1972.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two.

Grants to States.

3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “each year” and inserting in their stead the words “each of the years One thousand nine hundred and seventy and One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one”: and

(b) by inserting after that sub-section the following sub-section:—

“(1a.) There is payable to each State, in respect of each year, not being a year referred to in the last preceding sub-section, by way of financial assistance to the State, an amount in respect of each independent school in the State, being an amount calculated—

(a) at the rate of Fifty dollars for each pupil receiving primary education; and

(b) at the rate of Sixty-eight dollars for each pupil receiving secondary education,

at the school on the schools census date.”.

Conditions of payments.

4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) the words “the amount calculated in respect of the school in respect of that year in accordance with sub-section (1.) of section 3 of this Act” and inserting in their stead the words “the amount payable in respect of the school in respect of that year in accordance with section 3 of this Act”.