16ASpecial education schools support—government element

16A Special education schools support—government element

(1) The Minister may, by determination in writing, authorise the payment to a State for the program year 1991 and subsequent program years of an amount by way of financial assistance to the State for those years for recurrent expenditure in connection with special education, including recurrent expenditure on integration activities and expenditure 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 or the State Minister for the purposes of the definition of integration activities in subsection 3(1), being schools or places at which special education is provided by or on behalf of the State. (2) An amount paid to a State under subsection (1) for a program year must not exceed the amount set out, opposite the name of the State, in column 2 of Schedule 5 in relation to the year. (3) The Minister must not authorise a payment to a State under subsection (1) for a program year unless the State has entered into an agreement with the Commonwealth for that year, or for a number of years including that year, being an agreement of a kind specified by the Minister that sets out conditions on which financial assistance is granted to the State under subsection (1). (4) Financial assistance is granted to a State for a program year under this section:

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

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