Relevant date
17.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, any amount required to be determined by the Secretary of State under the provisions of Parts 2 and 3 shall be determined on the information available to him on a date determined by him and notified by him to the former maintaining authority (referred to in these Regulations as “the relevant date”).
(2) The Secretary of State may redetermine the relevant date in any case where he considers it appropriate to do so and shall in any such case notify the governing body of the school and the former maintaining authority of the redetermined date.
(3) Where there is not available to the Secretary of State on the relevant date (or that date as redetermined in accordance with paragraph (2)) sufficient information as will, in his opinion, allow him to determine any of the amounts referred to in paragraph (1) he may determine the amount of maintenance grant payable in respect of the school on such basis as appears to him to be fair and reasonable having regard to the information available to him on the relevant date.
(4) The Secretary of State shall not take into account any information made available to him after the relevant date (but before the date of his determination) for the purposes of determining the amount of maintenance grant payable in respect of a school for the financial yearin question.