Financing of federations
36.—(1) In its application to a federated school in England, other than one for which a temporary governing body is established pursuant to regulation 38 or 43, section 50 of SSFA 1998 (Effect of financial delegation) has effect subject to the following modifications.
(2) In subsection (1), for “maintained” substitute “federated”.
(3) In subsection (2) for “any amounts are made available by the authority to the governing body” substitute “any amounts in respect of a federated school are made available by the authority to the governing body of a federation”.
(4) In subsection (3)—
(a)for “the governing body may spend any such amounts” substitute “the governing body of a federation may spend any amounts made available under subsection (2), or previously made available to the governing bodies of the federated schools before federation”, and
(b)for paragraph (a) substitute—
“(a)for any purposes of the federated school to which the amounts relate;
(ab)for any purposes of any other federated school within the federation;
(ac)for any purposes of the federation; or”.
(5) In subsection (4) for “In subsection (3) “purposes of the school” does not include” substitute “In subsection (3)(a), (ab) and (ac) any reference to the purposes of a federated school or a federation does not include”.
(6) In subsection (6), for “the head teacher” substitute “the head teacher of the federation or to the head teachers of federated schools”.
(7) In subsection (7), for “school” substitute “federation”.