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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financing-of-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2004/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3130",
  "legislation_title": "The Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financing-of-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Differential funding",
  "text": "(1) A local education authority may 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 such differentiation is justified by reference to the choice that that school’s governing body have made as to the inclusion in their school’s budget share of funding in respect of expenditure of the kinds referred to in paragraphs 16(a) and (b), 27 or 29 of Schedule 3 to the Budget Regulations.\n(3) A local education authority are not required to use factors or criteria in their formula which differentiate between—\n(a) maintained nursery schools;\n(b) primary and secondary schools, and special schools; or\n(c) 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 criterion 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 criterion in the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004, then this regulation shall not require the local education authority to delegate such funding to that school in accordance with that factor or criterion, 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/2004/3130/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:14:49.644228+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."
}