The Education Act 1996 (Special Purpose and Capital Grants) (Modification) Regulations 1999

Payment of special purpose grants by the Secretary of State

2.  Section 245 of the 1996 Act (special purpose grants) shall apply in relation to the payment of special purpose grant in respect of financial years commencing on or after 1st April 1999 as if, in subsection (1)–

(a) for references to “the funding authority” there were substituted references to “the Secretary of State”;

(b) the reference to governing bodies of grant-maintained schools(1) included, in relation to the period commencing on 1st September 1999, a reference to schools which immediately before that date were grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools; and

(c) the reference in paragraph (c) to maintenance grant were a reference to schools' budget shares within the meaning of Part II of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

(1)

Sections 245, 247 and 248 apply to grant-maintained special schools and their governing bodies by virtue of regulation 23 of S.I. 1994/653, as substituted by regulation 11 of S.I. 1994/1231 and read with paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 39 to the 1996 Act.