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(1)A governing body to whom any payments in respect of maintenance grant or special purpose grants are made shall comply with such requirements of a kind mentioned in subsection (2) as the Secretary of State may from time to time impose.
(2)The kinds of requirements which may be imposed under subsection (1) are—
(a)requirements specified in grant regulations as requirements which may be imposed by the Secretary of State on governing bodies to whom such payments are made, and
(b)requirements determined in accordance with grant regulations by the Secretary of State.
(3)A governing body to whom any payments in respect of capital grant are made shall comply with such requirements determined by the Secretary of State as he may from time to time impose.
(4)Requirements imposed under subsection (1) or (3)—
(a)may be imposed on or at any time after the making of any payment by reference to which they are imposed, and
(b)may at any time be waived or removed or, subject to subsection (5), varied by the Secretary of State.
(5)The power of the Secretary of State to vary such a requirement—
(a)does not apply to a requirement of the kind mentioned in subsection (2)(a), and
(b)is subject, in the case of a requirement of the kind mentioned in subsection (2)(b), to the provisions of the regulations relating to the determination of the requirements that may be imposed in the case of payments in respect of the grants in question.
(6)The requirements—
(a)which may be specified in or authorised by grant regulations as requirements which may be imposed on governing bodies to whom payments are made in respect of special purpose grant, or
(b)which may be imposed by the Secretary of State on a governing body to whom payments in respect of capital grant are made,
may, in particular, if any conditions specified in the requirements are satisfied, require the payment to the Secretary of State of the whole or any part of the following amount.
(7)That amount is—
(a)the amount of the payments made in respect of the grant, or
(b)so much of the value of any premises or equipment in respect of which the grant was paid as is determined in accordance with the requirements to be properly attributable to the payment of such grant,
whichever is the greater.
(8)No such requirement as is referred to in subsection (6) may be imposed where any payment is made in respect of capital grant if—
(a)the grant is made in respect of the provision, alteration or repair of premises for a school, and
(b)any freehold interest in the premises in respect of which the grant is made is, or is to be, held on trust for the purposes of the school.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 253 repealed (1.4.1999 for specified purposes and otherwise prosp.) by 1998 c. 31, ss. 140(1)(3), 145(3), Sch. 30, para. 70, Sch. 31 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/1016, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (subject to savings in S.I. 1999/2323, Sch. 7 paras. 2, 5, 6, 10, 12)
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