4Schools and areas with respect to which special provision is made etc.

4 Schools and areas with respect to which special provision is made etc.

(1) Where:

(a) the students, or a substantial number of the students, at a government school in a State are members of a community that is, for social, economic, ethnic, geographic, cultural or lingual reasons, or for similar reasons, of such a kind that the capacity of the students to take advantage of educational opportunities ordinarily available at schools in the State is below average; and

(b) the State Education Minister for the State is of the opinion that:

(i) the school should, for any of the reasons referred to in paragraph (a), be treated as a disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act; and

(ii) the total number of students at that school, and at other schools in the State that are, or may become, government disadvantaged schools, is not, and will not, at any time during the year 1984, be, greater than the number of students that the Commonwealth Education Minister has, under subsection (3), informed the State Education Minister is the approved maximum number of students in relation to government disadvantaged schools in that State in respect of that year;

the State Education Minister may notify the Commonwealth Education Minister that the school should, in the opinion of the State Education Minister, be treated as a disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act. (2) Where:

(a) the students, or a substantial number of the students, at a non‑government school in a State are members of a community that is, for social, economic, ethnic, geographic, cultural or lingual reasons, or for similar reasons, of such a kind that the capacity of the students to take advantage of educational opportunities ordinarily available at schools in the State is below average; and

(b) the Commonwealth Education Minister is of the opinion that the school should, for any of the reasons referred to in paragraph (a), be treated as a disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act;

the Commonwealth Education Minister may declare the school to be a disadvantaged school for the purposes of this Act. (3) As soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act, the Commonwealth Education Minister shall determine, in relation to each State, the number of students that is, for the purposes of subsection (1), the approved maximum number of students in relation to government disadvantaged schools in the State in respect of the year 1984, and shall notify the State Education Minister of that number. (4) Where, in the opinion of the State Education Minister for a State, a country area of the State should be treated as a prescribed country area by reason that the students, or a substantial number of the students, receiving primary education or secondary education in the area would benefit from: