Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. III Chapter II (ss. 184-200) modified (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 57, ss. 37(3), 48(2)
(1)The Secretary of State may make payments in respect of any expenses incurred by the governing body of a school in exercising, or in connection with the exercise of, their functions under the preceding provisions of this Chapter.
(2)Payments under subsection (1) may be made on such terms as the Secretary of State may determine.
(3)A local education authority shall not incur any expenditure attributable to any period for the purpose of influencing the outcome of ballots held under section 189 if the aggregate of the amounts of expenditure for that purpose attributable to the period exceeds (or, if that expenditure were incurred, would exceed) the limit for that period.
(4)Regulations may make provision for determining for the purposes of this section—
(a)whether expenditure is incurred for the purpose referred to in subsection (3),
(b)the amount of any expenditure,
(c)the period to which expenditure is to be attributed, and
(d)the limit for any period.
(5)Regulations may require each local education authority—
(a)to keep in accordance with regulations, and any directions contained in an order made by the Secretary of State, a separate account of the expenditure incurred for the purpose referred to in subsection (3), and
(b)to prepare in respect of such periods as may be prescribed a statement of account and, if the Secretary of State so requests, send each statement to him before the end of such period as may be prescribed.