Regulation 6 Conditions for payment of grant
An education authority shall, when requested by the Secretary of State, inform him of the approved expenditure which has been or which it is estimated will be incurred by the education authority during the course of the financial year.
Each education authority that has received or seeks to receive a payment of grant under these Regulations in respect of expenditure incurred during any financial year shall, before 1st October in the following financial year or as soon as practicable after that date—
submit to the Secretary of State a statement which shall specify the amount and the nature of the approved expenditure which has been incurred during that year; and
secure the submission to the Secretary of State of a certificate signed by the auditor appointed by the Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales to audit the accounts of the authority or any auditor qualified for such appointment by virtue of sections 5, 6 and 7 of the Audit Commission Act 1998f1 certifying that in his opinion the particulars stated in the statement submitted by the authority pursuant to this paragraph are fairly stated and that the expenditure incurred was approved for the purposes of section 484.
Any under-payment or over-payment of grant which remains outstanding following receipt of the auditor’s certificate referred to in paragraph 2(b) above shall, without prejudice to the recovery of any over-payment from any subsequent payment of grant under these Regulations to the education authority, be adjusted by payment between the authority and the Secretary of State.
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