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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sub-post-office-start-up-capital-subsidy-scheme-order-2001/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sub-post-office-start-up-capital-subsidy-scheme-order-2001/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2001/0110296060",
  "legislation_title": "The Sub-Post Office Start-Up Capital Subsidy Scheme Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sub-post-office-start-up-capital-subsidy-scheme-order-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Scheme criteria",
  "text": "(1) In deciding whether to make a payment of subsidy under paragraph 4(1) or (2) of this Scheme, the Secretary of State shall have regard to the following criteria—\n(a) the availability of grants and subsidies, in addition to subsidy under this Scheme, for the establishment or continued operation, as the case may be, of the sub-post office;\n(b) whether the costs applied for represent reasonable value for money.\n(2) In deciding whether to make a payment of subsidy in the circumstances described in paragraph 4(1)(a)(i), the Secretary of State shall have regard to whether the settlement concerned is adequately served by the remaining sub-post offices in the settlement and in the surrounding area.\n(3) In deciding whether to make a payment of subsidy in the circumstances described in paragraph 4(1)(a)(ii) or (2), the Secretary of State shall have regard to whether the settlement concerned will be adequately served by other sub-post offices in the settlement or in the surrounding area if the sub-post office concerned closes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110296060/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:26:46.586740+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."
}