Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 2)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2005 No. 234

I, JOHN LANDY, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Act 2004.

Dated 20 October 2005

JOHN LANDY

Administrator

By the Administrator’s Command

BRENDAN NELSON

Minister for Education, Science and Training

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 2).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 1 October 2005.

3 Amendment of Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Regulations 2005

  Schedule 1 amends the Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Regulations 2005, as amended by the Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 1) (SLI 2005 No. 216).

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 1.2, including the note

substitute

1.2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence, or are taken to have commenced, as follows:

 (a) on 1 October 2005 — Parts 1 and 4;

 (b) on the first day on which subsection 140 (2) of the Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Act 2004 is complied with — Parts 2 and 3.

Note   Subsection 140 (2) of the Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Act 2004 provides that regulations made for the purposes of section 14, 15, 19, 31, 32 or 36 of that Act take effect not earlier than on the first day on which they are no longer liable to be disallowed, or to have been taken to have been disallowed, under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

[2] Regulation 4.2

substitute

4.2 Changes to recurrent grants — general

  For paragraph (b) of the definition of recurrent number for the program year in subsection 124 (1) of the Act, the number for the program year is set out in the table.

[3] Regulations 4.4 and 4.5

substitute

4.4 Changes to capital grants for government schools and non‑government schools

  For paragraph (b) of the definition of capital number for the program year in subsection 126 (1) of the Act, the number for the program year is set out in the table.

4.5 Changes to other grants for non‑government rural student hostels

  For subsection 127 (1) of the Act, for an amount mentioned in Schedule 6 in relation to a program year, the amount for the program year is increased by the factor set out in the table, which is the factor by which the Wage Cost Index No. 1 has changed from the 2003-2004 financial year.

Note   The Wage Cost Index No. 1 is the index determined in writing by the Finance Minister for subsection 127 (1) of the Act.

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