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THE PARLIAMENT
OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
STATES
GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT BILL
2001
EXPLANATORY
MEMORANDUM
(Circulated
by authority of the Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs the
Hon Dr David Kemp MP)
ISBN: 0642 458839
STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT BILL 2001
OUTLINE
The purpose of the Bill is to amend the States Grants (Primary and
Secondary Education Assistance) Act 2000 to provide an additional $33.3
million based on 2000 prices, over the period 2001-02 to 2002-03 for grants to
improve the learning outcomes of educationally disadvantaged students,
particularly in the key areas of literacy and numeracy. The increase will be
used to fund grants for strategic assistance for government and non government
education authorities, and grants to support strategic national literacy and
numeracy research and development initiatives.
The funding which will
commence in January 2002, will signal the implementation of the National
Literacy and Numeracy Plan agreed to by Commonwealth, State and Territory
Ministers for Education, to support the achievement of the National Goal
‘that all students should have attained the skills of numeracy and
English literacy such that every student should be numerate, able to read,
write, spell and communicate at an appropriate level’.
The Bill increases appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund as
follows:
• for the purposes of section 77 Grants for strategic
assistance for government schools etc and non-government schools:
- an increase of $ 1,300,000 for the year 2002
- an increase of $
22,943,000 for the year 2003.
• for the purposes of section 85 Grants for national projects to foster literacy or numeracy:
- an increase of $6,254,000 for the year 2002
- an increase of $3,121,000 for the year 2003.
STATES GRANTS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT BILL 2001
NOTES ON
CLAUSES
Clause 1 - Short Title
This clause provides for this Act to
be cited as the States Grants (Primary and Secondary Education
Assistance) Amendment Act 2001.
This clause provides for this Act to commence on the day on which it
receives the Royal Assent, except as follows:
a) If this Act commences
before the commencement of the Innovation and Education Legislation Amendment
Act 2001, items 5 and 6 of Schedule 1 to this Act will not commence on Royal
Assent, but immediately after the commencement of the Innovation and
Education Legislation Amendment Act 2001, and Part 2 of Schedule 1 to this
Act does not commence at all.
b) If the Innovation and Education
Legislation Amendment Act 2001 has commenced before the commencement of
section 1 of this Act, Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this Act does not commence at
all.
c) If section 1 of this Act and the Innovation and Education
Legislation Amendment Act 2001 commence at the same time, Part 2 of Schedule
2 to this Act will commence immediately after the commencement of the
Innovation and Education Legislation Amendment Act 2001 and Part 1 of
Schedule 1 to this Act does not commence at all.
Clause 3 –
Schedule(s)
This clause provides that each Act that is specified in a
Schedule is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the
Schedule concerned.
Part 1 – Amendments if the Innovation and
Education Legislation Amendment Act 2001 commences after section 1 of this
Act
If the Innovation and Education Legislation Amendment
Act 2001 has commenced at or before the commencement of section 1 of this
Act, this Part does not come into operation (See subsections 2(3) and
(4)).
Amends the table in Part 1 of Schedule 8 to provide for additional
funding for strategic assistance for the year 2002.
Amends the table in Part 1 of Schedule 8 to provide additional funding
for grants for strategic assistance for the year 2003.
Provides for an increase in the amount appropriated for grants to foster
literacy and numeracy for the year 2002.
Provides for an increase in the amount appropriated for grants to foster
literacy and numeracy for the year 2003.
Part 2 – Amendments if the Innovation and
Education Legislation Amendment Act 2001 commences at or before section 1 of
this Act
This Part does not come into operation if the
Innovation and Education Legislation Amendment Act 2001 commences after
the commencement of section 1 of this Act (see subsection
2(2)).
States Grants (Primary and Secondary Education
Assistance) Act 2000
Amends the table in Part 1 of Schedule 8 to provide for additional
funding for strategic assistance for the year 2002.
Amends the table in Part 1 of Schedule 8 to provide for additional
funding for grants for strategic assistance for the year 2003.
Provides for an increase in the amount appropriated for grants to foster
literacy and numeracy for the year 2002.
Provides for an increase in the amount appropriated for grants to foster
literacy and numeracy for the year 2003.