6Grants for building projects and equipment projects in connection with government schools

6 Grants for building projects and equipment projects in connection with government schools

(1) Subject to section 7, the Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in respect of expenditure in relation to building projects and equipment projects in connection with government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State, of such amounts as the Minister determines. (2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the conditions that:

(a) 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 expenditure, in respect of commitments already undertaken, or to be undertaken, not later than 31 December 1984, in relation to building projects and equipment projects in connection with government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State, other than projects the sole or principal object, or one of the principal objects, of which is to provide housing or other residential accommodation in any capital city for teachers or other staff; and

(b) if, at or before the time of the payment of an amount of financial assistance to the State under this section, the Minister determines that so much of that amount as is represented by a specified amount is to be taken to have been paid to the State for a specified prescribed purpose (in this section referred to as a designated amount in relation to that prescribed purpose), the State will ensure that:

(i) in the application, as mentioned in paragraph (a), of the amount first referred to in that paragraph, not less than so much of that last‑mentioned amount as is equal to the sum of the designated amounts in relation to a prescribed purpose is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting expenditure that relates to the prescribed purpose; and

(ii) in the application, as mentioned in paragraph (a), of so much of the amount first referred to in that paragraph as is equal to the sum of the designated amounts in relation to the prescribed purpose referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of prescribed purpose in subsection (7)—not more than the prescribed maximum amount is applied by the State for the purpose of meeting expenditure in relation to any particular school that relates to that prescribed purpose.

(3) The sum of the designated amounts that are determined by the Minister under paragraph (2)(b) to have been paid to a State in relation to a particular prescribed purpose shall not exceed the amount specified opposite to the name of the State in whichever of columns 3, 4, 5 or 6 of Schedule 1 relates to that prescribed purpose. (4) Subject to subsection 3(13), a State may, for the purposes of this section, treat amounts that have been applied by the State after 30 September 1983 and before the commencing day, for the purpose of meeting expenditure in relation to a building project or equipment project in connection with a government primary school or a government secondary school in the State, as having been so applied by the State after that day. (5) The Minister shall not authorize a payment to a State under subsection (1) unless and until the Commonwealth Education Minister is satisfied that arrangements have been made in accordance with which: