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Paragraph 6

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(1)

Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the funding authority shall determine as the adjusted maintenance grant for each school for the financial year in question an amount which is the aggregate of the following amounts—

(a)

the amount (Direct AMG) determined in accordance with regulation 6 or 7;

(b)

the amount (Central AMG) determined in accordance with regulation 8;

(c)

the amount determined in accordance with regulation 11 (school meals);

(d)

the amount determined in accordance with regulation 22 (contingencies) in respect of contingencies arising other than from increases in pupil numbers at the school during the course of that financial year;

(e)

the amount determined in accordance with regulation 23 (nursery education);

(f)

the amount added or deducted under regulation 32 (schools situated in the area of the authority which is not the area of the former maintaining authority);

(g)

the amount added under regulation 33 (capital expenditure from the revenue account);

(h)

the amount paid under paragraph 2(f) of Schedule 6 (expenditure for or in connection with the provision at the school of nursery education as defined in section 1 of the Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996).

(2)

For the purpose of determining the amounts in paragraph (1) no account shall be taken of—

(a)

funding for pupils with statements of special educational needs of a kind which the local education authority could have determined, by the application of the allocation formula in their scheme in relation to a comparable maintained school covered by the scheme, as part of such a school’s budget share for all or part of the financial year in question, in so far as such funding or a corresponding percentage of such funding could not also have been so determined for the equivalent period in the preceding financial year;

(b)

regulation 10 (Section 11 funding);

(c)

regulation 22 (contingencies) in relation to increases in pupil numbers at the school during the course of the financial year;

(d)

regulations 24, 25 and 26 (additions or deductions representing unspent sums from previous budget shares, budget deficits from previous years and deductions from current year’s budget share);

(e)

regulations 27 and 28 (deductions representing excessive surpluses in previous years and excessive severance payments);

(f)

regulation 31 (schools with wide age ranges).

(3)

In the case of a school to which regulation 4(2) of these Regulations applies (precise calculation of maintenance grant impracticable etc.) the funding authority shall determine as the amount of the adjusted maintenance grant such amount as appears to them to be fair and reasonable having regard to the amount of maintenance grant which they determined in respect of the school under these Regulations and the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) above.