Education Act 1996

125 Required financial delegation apart from schemes

(1) In respect of any period during which a county, voluntary or maintained special school does not have a delegated budget, the local education authority shall make available a sum of money which (subject to subsection (2)) the governing body of the school are to be entitled to spend at their discretion during that period—

(a) on books, equipment and stationery; and

(b) on such other heads of expenditure (if any) as the authority may specify or as may be prescribed.

(2) In spending that sum the governing body shall comply with such reasonable conditions as the authority think fit to impose.

(3) The governing body may, to such extent as they may specify, delegate their powers in relation to that sum to the head teacher.

(4) Before making any regulations for the purposes of subsection (1), the Secretary of State shall consult—

(a) such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned; and

(b) any local authority with whom consultation appears to him to be desirable.