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Part VIIU.K. Miscellaneous and general

Financial assistance to non-maintained schoolsE+W

F1128 Financial assistance to non-maintained schools.E+W

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129 Payment of school expenses; grant of scholarships, etc.E+W

For section 518 of the M1Education Act 1996 there shall be substituted—

518 Payment of school expenses; grant of scholarships, etc.

(1)A local education authority, for the purpose of enabling persons to take advantage of any educational facilities available to them, may in such circumstances as may be specified in or determined in accordance with regulations—

(a)pay such expenses of children attending community, foundation, voluntary or special schools as may be necessary to enable them to take part in any school activities,

(b)grant scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries and other allowances in respect of persons over compulsory school age.

(2)Regulations may make provision—

(a)for requiring a local education authority to make, in relation to each financial year, a determination relating to the extent to which they propose to exercise their power under subsection (1)(b) in that year; and

(b)for authorising an authority to determine not to exercise that power in a financial year—

(i)generally,

(ii)in such cases as may be prescribed, or

(iii)in such cases as may be determined by the authority.

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130 Transfer of assisted places.E+W

(1)In section 3(2) of the M2Education (Schools) Act 1997 (regulations for purposes of transitional arrangements), after paragraph (f) there shall be added—

(g)provide for the Secretary of State, in a case where he is satisfied that it is reasonable to do so in view of any particular circumstances relating to a pupil who holds (or has at any time held) an assisted place provided by a school under section 2(1), to authorise another school which is either—

(i)a former participating school, or

(ii)a new school authorised to provide assisted places by virtue of paragraph (f) above,

to provide for the pupil under section 2(1) the assisted place which the first-mentioned school was authorised to provide.

(2)In section 75A(9A) of the M3Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (regulations in connection with assisted places)—

(a)the word “and” immediately preceding paragraph (b) shall be omitted; and

(b)after that paragraph there shall be inserted ; and

(c)provide for the Secretary of State, in a case where he is satisfied that it is reasonable to do so in view of any particular circumstances relating to a pupil who holds (or has, at any time since the beginning of the first term of the 1997-98 school year, held) an assisted place at a school under a scheme operated by virtue of subsection (1) above, to authorise another school which is, or is treated as, a participating school to provide for the pupil under such a scheme the assisted place which the first-mentioned school was authorised to provide.

Extent Information

E1S. 130(2) extends to Scotland only.

Marginal Citations