59Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities

59 Grants for recurrent expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities

(1) Subject to section 60, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in respect of the year 1984, in connection with approved professional development activities, being activities which are conducted (in whole or in part) during the year 1984. (3) In this section:

(a) a reference to expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities shall be read as not including a reference to expenditure in connection with the remuneration of teachers attending approved professional development activities unless the approved professional development activities are activities in which teachers at government schools and teachers at non‑government schools are eligible to participate;

(b) a reference to expenditure in connection with approved professional development activities shall be read as not including a reference to expenditure in connection with the replacement of teachers during a period when they are attending approved professional development activities unless the approved professional development activities:

(i) are activities in which teachers at government schools and teachers at non‑government schools are eligible to participate; and

(ii) relate to:

(A) education of the kind referred to in subsection 10(1), 12(1), 15(1), 26(1), 27(1), 29(1), 30(1), 34(1), 44(1), 52(1), 54(1) or 56(1) of this Act;

(B) projects or programs approved under section 17 or 36 of this Act or under the States Grants (Education Assistance—Participation and Equity) Act 1983;

(C) projects or programs related to the education of peoples of the aboriginal race of Australia or to the education of female children; or

(D) such other matters as the Minister from time to time approves; and

(c) a reference to a teacher shall be read as including a reference to:

(i) a person employed at a school and a person associated with the administration of a school or a school system, including a government school system; and

(ii) a person included in a class of persons declared by the Minister to be a class of persons to be treated as teachers for the purposes of this section.

(4) For the purposes of this Act, where, immediately before the commencing day, a declaration was in force for the purposes of subsection 47(3) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, the declaration shall, on and after that day, be deemed to be a declaration made under subsection (3) of this section.