Catchwords:

EDUCATION – financial assistance to non-government schools – entitlement conditioned on school not operating for profit – recovery of payments made while school operating for profit – recovery by reduction of future assistance

LIMITATION OF ACTIONS – cause of action to recover money recoverable by virtue of an enactment – recovery by reduction of future entitlements – whether such recovery an “action” – whether extinguishment of statutory debt affects power to recover by reducing future payments

STATUTORY INTERPRETATION – presumption that statutory scheme for recovery of over-payments constitutes a code