29Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided in connection with systemic schools

29 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided in connection with systemic schools

(1) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with systemic schools in the school system, of such amounts as the Minister determines, being amounts that do not exceed, in the aggregate, an amount equal to the product of the amount that is determined by the Minister under section 5 to be the level at which financial assistance is to be provided in respect of each eligible new arrival receiving education in English as a second language and the number of eligible new arrivals who will receive that education provided at or in connection with systemic schools in that school system. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with systemic schools in the school system on the conditions that:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school system an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school system, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved authority as a payment made out of moneys provided to the State by the Commonwealth under this section; and

(b) the State will not make a payment to the approved authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes to the State Education Minister for the State a certificate to the effect that the approved authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions:

(i) the approved authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the approved authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of courses commencing in 1984, of those schools, and of the approved authority in respect of those schools, in such proportions as the Commonwealth Education Minister determines, in connection with education in English as a second language for eligible new arrivals provided at or in connection with those schools;

(ii) the approved authority will ensure that each eligible new arrival for whom a course of that education is provided, commencing in that year, at or in connection with a systemic school in the approved school system:

(A) enrolled in the course before 1 May 1984 or before the date occurring 6 months after the date of his arrival in Australia, whichever is the later date;