1States Grants (Independent Schools) Act 1969

States Grants (Independent Schools)

No. 89 of 1969

An Act to grant Financial Assistance to the States in relation to Independent Schools.

[Assented to 27 September 1969]

[Date of commencement 25 October 1969]

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.

1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Independent Schools) Act 1969.

Interpretation.

2.—(1.) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—

“independent school” or “school” means a school or institution in a State, other than a school or institution conducted by the State, at which primary education or secondary education is, or both are, provided, but does not include a school conducted for the profit, direct or indirect, of an individual or individuals;

“primary education” means full time education of a kind similar to that provided for pupils in primary classes in schools conducted by the State concerned;

“qualified accountant”, in relation to the furnishing of a statement referred to in section 4 of this Act, means—

(a) a person who is registered as a company auditor or public accountant under the law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth;

(b) a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia or of the Australian Society of Accountants; or

(c) a person approved by the Minister as a person competent to furnish such statements;

“recurrent expenditure”, in relation to an independent school, means expenditure, other than capital expenditure, incurred for purposes related to the provision of primary education or secondary education at the school;

“school authority”, in relation to an independent school, means the person or body conducting the school;

“secondary education” means full time education of a kind similar to that provided for pupils in secondary classes in schools conducted by the State concerned.

“the schools census date”, in relation to schools in a State, means the date in the relevant year as at which the Commonwealth Statistician compiles statistics in relation to the numbers of pupils in schools in that State;

“year” means the year One thousand nine hundred and seventy or a subsequent year.

(2.) A reference in this Act to primary education or secondary education shall, in relation to pupils who, by reason of physical or mental handicap or for any other reason, require special educational treatment, be read as including a reference to such education of those pupils as, in the opinion of the Minister, should be treated as primary education or secondary education, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Act.