Schools Assistance Act 2008

A funding agreement must require the relevant authority for the non‑government school, or other non‑government body, to allow a person (an authorised person) authorised in writing by the Minister for the purpose to do either or both of the following:

to have full and free access to accounts, records and documents of the relevant authority relating to information that the authority is required under the agreement to give to the Minister;

to take extracts from, or make copies of, any such accounts, records and documents.

Without limiting subsection (1), a funding agreement for a non‑systemic school, or an approved school system, must allow an authorised person to have full and free access to each campus of the school, or of each school in the system, for the following purposes:

the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b);

to undertake any reasonable inspection of the campus, and of the students at the campus, including an inspection for the purpose of counting the number of students at the campus.

For the purposes of this section, the funding agreement:

must allow for access mentioned in this section to be given only on condition that:

in the case of a non‑systemic school—the authorised person gives reasonable notice to the relevant authority for the school; and

in the case of a systemic school—the authorised person gives reasonable notice to the relevant authority for the approved school system concerned, and to a person responsible for the operation of the school; and

in any case—the access is given at reasonable times; and

must provide for the authorised person to be given such help as he or she requires to exercise any power mentioned in this section.