The Education (Capital Grants) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 484 of the Education Act 1996 enables the National Assembly for Wales (“the National Assembly”) to make regulations providing for the payment of grants in respect of expenditure incurred by local education authorities for or in connection with educational purposes which it appears to the National Assembly those authorities should be encouraged to incur in the interests of education in Wales. These Regulations provide for the payment of such grants.

Regulation 1: provides for citation, commencement and application. The Regulations come into force on 1st April 2002 and apply to Wales only.

Regulation 2: contains definitions.

Regulation 3: provides for grants to be payable only in respect of expenditure incurred or due to be incurred by a local education authority for or in connection with the purposes specified in the Schedule in a financial year, and only to the extent that the expenditure is approved for that year by the National Assembly for the purposes of the Regulations.

Regulation 4: provides for the rate at which grants are payable.

Regulations 5 to 7: set out the conditions which apply in respect of the payment of grants, including audit requirements.

Regulation 8: sets out a number of other requirements which must be complied with by local education authorities to whom grant payments have been made.

Regulation 9: allows the National Assembly to impose additional requirements.

Schedule: provides for the purposes for or in connection with which grants may be paid.