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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-for-education-support-and-training-nursery-education-england-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/235",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grants for Education Support and Training: Nursery Education) (England) Regulations 1996",
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  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Conditions for and time and manner of payment of grant",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this regulation a main period is one of the following periods—\n(a) 1st April to 31st July 1996;\n(b) 1st August to 31st December 1996;\n(c) 1st January to 31st March 1997.\n(2) No payment of grant shall be made except in response to an application in writing from a local education authority to the Secretary of State, authenticated by the officer of the authority responsible for the administration of their financial affairs or his deputy.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (6) below applications for the payment of grant shall relate to expenditure which the local education authority estimate will be incurred during such period as is specified in the application.\n(4) A period specified in an application for a grant under paragraph (3) above must be such that—\n(a) no period falls within more than one main period; and\n(b) there are no more than two periods in any one main period.\n(5) Where expenditure incurred during any main period differs from the estimated expenditure specified in the application for grant in respect of that period an adjustment shall be made—\n(a) where the difference between the estimated and actual expenditure arose in respect of the main period starting on 1st April 1996 or 1st August 1996, by an adjustment to the grant payable in respect of any application in the next main period; and\n(b) where the difference between the estimated and actual expenditure arose in respect of the main period starting on 1st January 1997, by payment by the Secretary of State to the local education authority or by re-payment of grant by the local education authority to the Secretary of State in each case before 1st April 1997.\n(6) The first application for grant under paragraph (3) above may relate (in addition to expenditure as described in paragraph (3) above) to expenditure incurred during the financial year ending in 1996 in defraying administration expenses in connection with the provision of nursery education mentioned in regulation 3 above.\n(7) The statement referred to in regulation 6(5) of the Principal Regulations required to be submitted to the Secretary of State for the financial year ending in 1997 shall specify the approved expenditure under these Regulations (in addition to the approved expenditure under the Principal Regulations).\n(8) Any further under-payment or over-payment of grant which remains outstanding following receipt of the auditor’s certificate referred to in regulation 6(5)(b) of the Principal Regulations shall, (without prejudice to any right of recovery of any over-payment from any subsequent payment of grant under the Principal Regulations), be adjusted by payment between the local education authority and the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/514",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Grants for Education Support and Training) (England) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/235/regulation/6",
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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."
}