16Limits on grants under section 15 etc.

16 Limits on grants under section 15 etc.

(1) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under section 15 that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State. (2) At any time, and from time to time, during the year 1984, but subject to subsection (3), the Commonwealth Education Minister may, at the request of the State Education Minister for a State, direct that this Act shall have effect as if the amounts specified in columns 2 and 4 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Commonwealth Education Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of those amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this section), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule, as from the commencing day, in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied. (3) A direction given under subsection (2) in relation to a State shall not provide for the variation of any amounts in such a way that, after the variation, the aggregate of the amounts specified in columns 2 and 4 of Schedule 5 opposite to the name of the State is greater or less than the aggregate of the amounts specified in those columns opposite to the name of the State immediately before the giving of the direction. (4) As soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under subsection (2), the Minister shall cause a statement setting out particulars of the direction to be laid before each House of the Parliament.