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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-new-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1998/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/798",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (New Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-new-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Excessive Severance Payments",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in a case where the funding authority are, after consultation with the governing body of the school, of the opinion that the governing body have made a payment in respect of the dismissal, or for the purpose of securing the resignation, of any member of the staff of the school which is, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, excessive or wholly improper.\n(2) Where this regulation applies the amounts to be added together for the purpose of determining the amount of maintenance grant payable in respect of the school under regulation 4(1) shall have deducted from them such part of the payment referred to in paragraph (1) as the funding authority regard as excessive or, where they are of the opinion that the payment is wholly improper, the whole of the payment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/798/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:06.293610+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."
}