{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1990/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1990/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/549",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Determination of amount of maintenance grant",
  "text": "Notwithstanding the provisions of regulations 4 and 5 but subject to regulations 7 and 8, the Secretary of State may, after consulting the governing body or prospective governing body (as the case may be) of the school and the former maintaining authority, determine the amount of maintenance grant payable by the Secretary of State–\n(a) to the governing body of a school for a financial year in respect of which the former maintaining authority are required to prepare a statement under section 42 of the Act in accordance with the provisions of regulation 5(2) to (7), save that, in the definition of “relevant schools” in regulation 5(4)(c), for the reference to “section 50” there shall be substituted a reference to “section 42”; or\n(b) to the governing body of a school for any financial year, by reference to the school’s maintenance grant for the immediately preceding financial year adjusted by such amount as the Secretary of State is satisfied is fair and reasonable having regard to, among other things–\n(i) any increase or decrease in the actual or planned level of spending of the former maintaining authority in respect of the primary or secondary schools, as the case may be, maintained by them occurring during or since the end of the immediately preceding financial year;\n(ii) any significant change in the characteristics of the school occurring as aforesaid or which it appears to the Secretary of State is likely to occur before the end of the financial year in relation to which grant is being determined, and\n(iii) any difference between the amount of grant in respect of school meals produced by the application of the formula in regulation 4(5)(b) and the amount of such grant which would have been produced in accordance with regulation 3(4)(b) of the 1989 Regulations had that provision applied for the purpose of determining maintenance grant for the financial year in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/3103",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Schools Conducted by Education Associations) Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/549/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:24:38.224339+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."
}