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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financing-of-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2001/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financing-of-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2001/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/475",
  "legislation_title": "The Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financing-of-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Differential funding",
  "text": "(1) A local education authority shall use factors or criteria which differentiate between different categories or descriptions of schools in so far as the functions of the governing bodies of those schools justify such differentiation but may not otherwise do so except as required or expressly permitted by these Regulations.\n(2) A local education authority shall use factors or criteria which differentiate between a school and other schools of the same category or description if the choice that that school’s governing body have made under these Regulations regarding particular expenditure funding for which is to be included in their school’s budget share, justifies such differentiation.\n(3) A local education authority are not required to use factors or criteria in their formula which differentiate between—\n(a) primary and secondary schools, and special schools;\n(b) schools whose pupils are in different age ranges,\nbut they may do so.\n(4) If a local education authority choose to use a particular factor or criteria to delegate funding to all or some of the schools which they maintain, and a school which it is proposed to discontinue during the financial year did not receive funding in accordance with that factor or criteria in the financial year beginning on 1st April 2000, then this regulation shall not require the local education authority to delegate such funding to that school in accordance with that factor or criteria but they may do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/475/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:02:07.443617+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."
}