PART 3 CAPITAL AND SPECIAL PURPOSE GRANTS

20 Capital grants
The Secretary of State may pay capital grants in respect of expenditure of a capital nature of a class or description specified in Schedule 4 incurred or to be incurred by the governing body of a school.

21 Special purpose grants
1 The Secretary of State may pay special purpose grants in respect of expenditure of any class or description specified in Schedule 5 incurred or to be incurred by the governing body of a school—
(a) for or in connection with the educational purposes so specified, or
(b) in respect of any expenses so specified being expenses which it appears to the Secretary of State the governing bodies of schools cannot reasonably be expected to meet from maintenance grant.
2 Special purpose grants may be paid on a regular basis in respect of expenditure of a recurrent kind or by reference to expenditure incurred or to be incurred on particular occasions or during any particular period.

22 Requirements which may be attached to payment of special purpose grants
1 The requirements set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 and paragraph (2) below are specified as requirements which may be imposed by the Secretary of State on governing bodies to whom payments of special purpose grants are or have been made.
2 The requirements referred to in paragraph (1) are—
(a) a requirement that any such payment shall be applied for the purpose of defraying expenditure in respect of which it was made and for no other purpose; and
(b) a requirement that such a payment shall be so applied before a date specified by the Secretary of State.
3 The Secretary of State may determine for the purposes of the application of section 90(1) and (2) of the 1993 Act to such governing bodies as are referred to in paragraph (1)—
(a) any requirement referred to in paragraphs 2 to 4 of Schedule 3.
(b) any requirement formulated with a view to the Secretary of State satisfying himself that a requirement imposed in accordance with paragraph (2) is being, or has been, complied with including, in particular, requirements as to the furnishing by the governing body of audited statements relating to expenditure in respect of which the grant has been paid together with such accounts, receipts, invoices and other information as he may require in order to verify the same; and
(c) any requirement as to the repayment, in whole or in part, of payments made to the governing body in respect of such grant if any other requirement imposed by him in accordance with this regulation subject to which the payments were made is not complied with.