16Grants for expenditure in connection with special education at government schools and centres

16 Grants for expenditure in connection with special education at government schools and centres

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may, by determination in writing, authorise the payment to a State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State for recurrent expenditure for the program years 1989 and 1990 in connection with special education provided at or in connection with government schools or government centres in the State or other special education provided by, or on behalf, of the State, of an amount not exceeding the amount set out opposite to the name of the State in column 2 of the part of Schedule 5 that relates to the year concerned. (2) The Minister shall not authorise a payment to a State under this section in respect of a program year unless the State has entered into an agreement of a kind specified by the Minister with the Commonwealth in respect of that year or in respect of a number of years including that year, being an agreement that sets out conditions on which financial assistance is granted to the State under this section. (3) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section:

(a) on the conditions set out in the agreement;

(b) on the condition that the State will ensure that not less than the amount set out opposite to the name of the State in column 3 of the part of Schedule 5 that relates to that year is applied by the State:

(i) for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in respect of that year; or

(ii) for the purpose of meeting expenditure, in respect of commitments undertaken not later than 31 December in that year, on minor capital projects;

in connection with integration activities conducted at government schools in the State, or at places of education approved by the Minister for the purposes of the definition of integration activities in subsection 3(1) at which special education is provided by, or on behalf of, the State; and

(c) on the additional conditions applicable under section 18.