Paragraph 1 Primary and Secondary Schools

references to the number of pupils excludes those funded by grant paid to the authority by the LSC under section 7 of the 2000 Act;

the “relevant number” of pupils for a financial year is the number of pupils registered at the school and used for the purpose of determining the adjusted budget share for that financial year, save that where the authority has not exercised its discretion under regulation 8(3) to take the number of pupils in places which the authority recognises as reserved for children with special educational needs, or in nursery classes, into account in their formula, then the number of those places shall be added to the relevant number for the purposes of this Schedule;

the “adjusted budget share” is a school’s budget share determined in accordance with Parts 2 and 3 of these Regulations but not taking into account the effect of regulations 12, 15, 16(1), 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, and 25, paragraphs 8, 14 and 29 of Schedule 1 and any amounts added in respect of funding for named pupils which is deducted from a school’s budget share when that pupil leaves school, including amounts for pupil exclusions above that permitted by regulation 22 but not including amounts for the cost of providing free school meals;

references to an initially determined adjusted budget share for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004 include the effect of any additional arrangement approved by the Secretary of State under regulation 28 of the 2003 (No.2) Regulations, but exclude any amounts which have been included pursuant to the following provisions—

where a school has opened after 1st April 2004 but before 1st April 2005, its initially determined budget share for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004 for the purposes of this Schedule shall be the amount that it would have been had the school opened on 1st April 2004, adjusted in accordance with sub-paragraph (d).