Relevant date
15.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) and regulation 18, any amount required to be determined by the Secretary of State under this Part shall be determined on the information available to him on the relevant date.
(2) In paragraph (1), the relevant date means 31 March in the preceding financial year or, for the purposes of determining the amount of maintenance grant payable in respect of any school for any financial year, such other date as the Secretary of State may determine.
(3) The Secretary of State may, in any case where he considers it appropriate to do so, redetermine the relevant date.
(4) Where—
(a)the Secretary of State determines in accordance with paragraph (2) that, in respect of any school for any financial year, the relevant date should be a date other than 31 March in the preceding financial year, or
(b)he redetermines the relevant date in accordance with paragraph (3),
he shall notify the governing body of the school and the former maintaining authority in writing of that fact.
(5) Where there is not available to the Secretary of State on the relevant date sufficient information as will, in his opinion, allow him to determine any amount 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.
(6) 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 year in question.
(7) References in these Regulations to the relevant date are references to the date referred to in paragraph (2) unless the relevant date has been redetermined in accordance with paragraph (3) in which case it is a reference to that date as redetermined.