Paragraph 26 Strategic management
Expenditure in the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999, except in relation to schools which are, or were immediately before 1st April 1999, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools, on—
advice to schools which have delegated budgets on financial, legal, personnel, estates, health and safety and related matters;
support for schools which have delegated budgets in respect of financial and personnel administration (including payroll administration, cash management, arrangements for the processing of payments authorised by or on behalf of the schools' governing bodies, and routine administration relating to contracts and staff recruitment); and
premises services other than repair and maintenance of buildings:
Provided that no such expenditure may be deducted by an authority in respect of any of the above items unless expenditure for that item in the financial year beginning on 1st April 1998 did not form part of, or was, pursuant to the terms of the authority’s scheme (within the meaning of the 1996 Act) as then in force, deducted from, the authority’s general schools budget (within the meaning of the 1996 Act).