50Approval of programs of ethnic education and determination of levels of funding

50 Approval of programs of ethnic education and determination of levels of funding

(1) Where an approved ethnic schools authority is providing or proposes to provide, during the year 1984, otherwise than for profit, a program of ethnic education, the Minister may approve that program as an approved program of ethnic education of that authority for the purposes of section 51. (2) Where the Minister approves a program of ethnic education of an approved ethnic schools authority for the purposes of section 51, the Minister shall determine an amount (not exceeding $32) to be the level at which financial assistance is to be provided under section 51 to the approved ethnic schools authority in respect of each student undertaking the program for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of that authority in connection with the provision of the program in the year 1984. (3) Without limiting the matters to which the Minister may have regard in deciding for the purposes of subsection (1) whether to approve a program of ethnic education or in determining a level of assistance in respect of such a program under subsection (2), the Minister shall have regard to:

(a) the nature of the program;

(b) the number of hours per week during which direct instruction is being, or is to be, given to students under the program; and

(c) the intended duration of the program.

(4) The Minister shall not approve a program of ethnic education of an approved ethnic schools authority under subsection (1) unless the Minister is satisfied that:

(a) that program is open to persons irrespective of their ethnic origin;

(b) except in so far as the program is being, or is to be, provided in a school that is not a co‑educational school—the program is open to persons irrespective of their sex;

(c) no other financial assistance has been or will be provided by the Commonwealth towards the recurrent expenditure of the authority on the program; and

(d) the approved ethnic schools authority has complied with any conditions that were binding on the authority under an agreement of the kind referred to in paragraph 39(2)(b) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982.