38Grants for programs of computer education in connection with non‑systemic schools

38 Grants for programs of computer education in connection with non‑systemic schools

(1) Subject to section 39, where the Minister approves, under section 36, a program submitted by an approved authority in relation to a non‑systemic school in a State as an approved program of computer education in respect of the year 1984 the Minister may authorize the payment to the State, by way of financial assistance, in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of that year of that non‑systemic school in connection with the provision of that program at or in connection with that school, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure in respect of the year 1984 of a non‑systemic school in connection with the provision of an approved program of computer education approved in respect of that year at or in connection with the school on the conditions that:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved authority of the school an amount equal to the amount paid to the State under this section in relation to the school, and, in making the payments 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 is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of that year, of the school in connection with the provision of the program at or in connection with the school;

(ii) if the school is a co‑educational school—the approved authority will ensure that the benefits of, and the opportunities created by, the application of an amount equal to that amount for the purposes of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of that year, in connection with the provision of the program at or in connection with the school are, as far as practicable, equally available to male students and female students at the school;

(iii) the approved authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 30 June next following the expiration of that year or such later date as the Commonwealth Education Minister approves):

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

(B) a statement, in writing, that contains such information in respect of the operation of the program at or in connection with the school as is required by the Commonwealth Education Minister to be so furnished; and