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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financing-of-maintained-schools-regulations-1998/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financing-of-maintained-schools-regulations-1998/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0110799437",
  "legislation_title": "The Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financing-of-maintained-schools-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "New schools",
  "text": "(1) In the case of—\n(a) a proposed school referred to in regulation 1(5) or (6);\n(b) a school proposals for the establishment of which have not been fully implemented;\n(c) a school which is the subject of a significant change of character, a significant enlargement of its premises or a transfer to a new site under the 1996 Act; or\n(d) a school which is the subject of a prescribed alteration within the meaning of the 1998 Act,\nthe local education authority shall include factors or criteria in their formula which enable them to determine the school’s budget share so as to take into account the particular needs of the school or proposed school; and in particular may, in any financial year preceding the financial year in which a school first admits pupils, determine the amount of the budget share as zero.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, proposals for the establishment of a school have been fully implemented when the number of pupils admitted to the school in each age group has, in the opinion of the local education authority, reached—\n(a) that number of pupils indicated, when proposals for the establishment of the school were published, as the number of pupils to be admitted to each age group when the proposals were fully implemented; or\n(b) if no such number was indicated, such number as the authority may determine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0110799437/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:10.159431+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}