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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-and-grant-maintained-special-schools-finance-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/996",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained and Grant-maintained Special Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-and-grant-maintained-special-schools-finance-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“Central AMG” means the amount determined under regulation 8 or under that regulation as it has effect by virtue of regulation 10 or 13, as the context may require;\n“Direct AMG” means the amount determined under regulation 6, 7, 12 or 19;\n“financial year in question” means the financial year beginning in 1997;\n“local education authority” means—\n(a) in relation to any grant-maintained primary or secondary school and any financial year relating to such a school, the local education authority for the area in which the school is situated;\n(b) where such a school is situated in the area of more than one local education authority, such local education authority as the Secretary of State, after consultation with those local education authorities concerned, may determine; and\n(c) in relation to any grant-maintained special school and any financial year relating to such a school,\n(i) the local education authority by which the school was maintained immediately before it became a grant-maintained special school, or\n(ii) where that authority is the subject of a structural or boundary change (or both such changes) within the meaning of section 14 of the Local Government Act 1992 effected by an order made under section 17 of that Act, such other local education authority as the Secretary of State may, after consultation with that authority, notify to that authority and to the funding authority in writing;\n“preceding financial year” means the financial year beginning in 1996;\n“pupils with statements of special educational needs” means pupils for whom statements of their special educational needs are maintained under section 324 of the 1996 Act;\n“the 1996 Regulations” means the Education (Grant-maintained and Grant-maintained Special Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1996;\n(2) Expressions used in these Regulations set out in the first column of the following table shall have the meanings attributed to them by the provisions set out opposite thereto in the second column, references to regulations being references to regulations of these Regulations—\naggregated budget\nsection 101(3)(b) of the 1996 Act\nallocation formula\nsection 106(2) of the 1996 Act\ncapital grants\nsection 246(1) of the 1996 Act\nchange in the characteristics of the school\nregulation 6(14)\ncomparable maintained school\nregulation 6(10)\ndate of implementation of the proposals\nsections 200(2) and 217 of the 1996 Act\ndelegated budget\nsection 115(b) of the 1996 Act\nfinancial year\nsection 579(1) of the 1996 Act\ngeneral schools budget\nsection 101(3)(a) of the 1996 Act\nmaintained school\nregulation 6(10)\nmaintenance grant\nsection 244(1) of the 1996 Act\nrelevant authority\nregulation 39(2)\nrelevant date\nregulations 29(7) and 49(7)\nrelevant expenditure\nregulation 16(3)\nrelevant percentage\nregulation 8(2)\nscheme\nsection 101(1) of the 1996 Act\nschool’s budget share\nsection 101(3)(c) and (6) of the 1996 Act\nspecial purpose grants\nsection 245(1) of the 1996 Act.\n(3) In these Regulations references to a school becoming a grant-maintained school are references to a school acquiring grant-maintained status or being established as a grant-maintained school under Part III of the 1996 Act or becoming a grant-maintained special school in pursuance of Part 2 of the Education (Grant-maintained Special Schools) Regulations 1994.\n(4) For the purposes of these Regulations, a school becomes a grant-maintained school on the date of implementation of the proposals in respect of the school under Part III of the 1996 Act.\n(5) In these Regulations references to primary or secondary schools do not include such schools which are special schools.\n(6) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered Part, regulation or Schedule is a reference to the Part, regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/889."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/653; amended by S.I. 1994/1231 and read with paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 39 to the 1996 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/996/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}