51Grants for approved programs of ethnic education

51 Grants for approved programs of ethnic education

(1) The Minister may before 1 April 1985 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 ethnic schools authority in providing, in that State, in the year 1984, an approved program of ethnic education, 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 50 to be the level at which financial assistance is to be provided to the approved ethnic schools authority in respect of each student undertaking the program and the number in relation to the program (not being a number greater than the greatest number of students enrolled in the program) that is ascertained, in accordance with a method determined by the Minister, by writing signed by the Minister, for the purposes of this section, by reference to the numbers of students attending lessons in the program conducted during the relevant period or the relevant periods, as the case may be, in relation to the program. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section in respect of recurrent expenditure of an approved ethnic schools authority in connection with the provision, in the State, in the year 1984, of approved programs of ethnic education on the conditions that:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the State will, without undue delay, pay to the approved ethnic schools authority an amount equal to each amount paid to the State under this section in relation to an approved program of ethnic education, and, in making the payment, will describe the amount paid to the approved ethnic schools 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 an approved ethnic schools authority under this section unless the Commonwealth Education Minister furnishes a certificate to the State Education Minister for that State to the effect that the approved ethnic schools authority has agreed with the Commonwealth to be bound by the following conditions:

(i) the approved ethnic schools authority will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts paid to the authority under this section is applied for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure of the authority in connection with the provision of approved programs of ethnic education of that authority in the State in the year 1984;

(ii) the approved ethnic schools authority will cause to be furnished to the Commonwealth Education Minister (not later than 31 March 1985 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) has been fulfilled; and