31Grants for expenditure of systemic disadvantaged schools

31 Grants for expenditure of systemic disadvantaged schools

(1) Subject to section 33, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with any systemic disadvantaged school or schools in the school system, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of expenditure of an approved school system in the State in connection with any systemic disadvantaged school or 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 approved authority, before or at the time of accepting the first payment under this section, has agreed or agrees 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:

(A) recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, of that systemic disadvantaged school or those systemic disadvantaged schools, and of the approved authority in respect of that school or those schools, in such proportions as the Minister determines; or

(B) expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken or to be undertaken not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to minor building projects, or minor equipment projects, in connection with that systemic disadvantaged school or those systemic disadvantaged schools, being projects that are approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section;

(ii) the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to so much of that amount as is applied for the purposes of expenditure of the kind referred to in sub‑subparagraph (i)(A), being expenditure in connection with a co‑educational school or co‑educational schools, are, as far as practicable, equally available to male sutdents and female students at the school or schools;

(iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Minister (not later than 30 June 1985 or such later date as the Minister approves):

(A) a certificate by a qualified accountant to the effect that he has satisfied himself that the condition specified in subparagraph (i) has been fulfilled; and