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1999
THE
PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF
AUSTRALIA
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
STATES
GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT BILL
1999
SUPPLEMENTARY
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
(Circulated by
authority of the Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs,
the Hon Dr David Kemp MP)
ISBN: 0642 407991
STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT BILL
1999
OUTLINE
This amendment allows for variation of the funding
amounts to take into account the flow on effects of 1999 supplementation rather
than the funding amounts in 1998 prices, as provided for in the
Bill.
Under section 78 of the States Grants
(Primary and Secondary Education Assistance) Act 1996, the Minister may
supplement funding amounts shown in the Act for a programme year after taking
into consideration changes in Average Government School Costs for recurrent
funding and the Building Price Index for capital funding.
The funding amounts shown in the Bill are in
1998 final prices. This means that these amounts incorporate supplementation up
to, and including, 1998.
A regulation
allowing cost supplementation for 1999 and future years will be made shortly but
will only permit supplementation of those funding amounts shown in the Act at
the time the regulation is made. As the regulation will be made prior to the
expected passage of the Bill, the amounts shown in the Bill will not incorporate
the 1999 supplementation flow-on effects and hence will be understated.
This amendment updates the amounts to incorporate the
1999 supplementation flow-on effects. The funding amounts for initiatives
contained in the Bill are now:
• $38.3
million for 2000 to increase funding under the Literacy and Numeracy
Programme;
• $27.9 million for 2000 to extend
funding for the National Asian Languages and Studies in Australian Schools
(NALSAS) strategy for 2000;
• an additional
$10.3 million for each of the programme years 2000 up to, and including, 2003
for the non-government component of the Capital Grants Programme;
and
• an additional $2.0 million for Short
Term Emergency Assistance (STEA) for 2000.
GOVERNMENT AMENDMENT OF THE STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1996
NOTES ON AMENDMENT TO THE
BILL
Items 2-5, page 3 (lines 5,16,20 and 24) of the Bill
are amended by omitting the stated grant amounts and substituting a higher
figure in each case to take into account the flow on effects of 1999
supplementation.
Item 6, page 4 (line 1) of
the Bill is amended by omitting the stated grant amount and substituting a
higher figure to take into account the flow on effects of 1999
supplementation.
Items 9-11, page 4 (lines
11,15, and 19) of the Bill are amended by omitting the stated grant amounts and
substituting a higher figure in each case to take into account the flow on
effects of 1999 supplementation.
Item 12, page
4 (line 22) of the Bill is amended by omitting the stated grant amount and
substituting a higher figure to take into account the flow on effects of 1999
supplementation.