{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-scotland-regulations-1995/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-scotland-regulations-1995/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1713",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-scotland-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Conditions of payment",
  "text": "(1) Any reimbursement under these Regulations shall be subject to the condition that the Secretary of State shall be satisfied that the participating school, to which such reimbursement is made, shall comply or shall have complied with the requirements specified in these Regulations.\n(2) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that a participating school has failed to observe any of the conditions or requirements specified in these Regulations in relation to any school year, he may—\n(a) refuse to make payment in whole or in part of any claim falling to be paid to that school in respect of that year in accordance with the Regulations; or\n(b) withhold payment of such claim or such part thereof as he considers appropriate for such period or periods as he considers appropriate;\nand, where a reimbursement claim has been paid to such a school in advance of the Secretary of State being so satisfied, the Secretary of State shall be entitled to recover from the school such sum as he considers appropriate, being a sum equal to the whole or such part of the payment made in respect of such claim as he thinks expedient, and, without prejudice to any other method of recovery available to him, he may deduct such sum from the amount of any other reimbursement claim falling to be paid to that school in accordance with these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1713/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:06:16.514882+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."
}