# The Nursery Education (England) Regulations 2000, Regulation 8: Amount of grant


(1) The provisions of this regulation shall have effect for determining the amount of grant payable to a provider of nursery education.
(2) The amount of grant made to a local education authority for any grant period in respect of nursery education provided at schools maintained by them shall be the amount obtained by multiplying the unit amount by the number of reckonable children.
(3) The amount of grant made to an authority for any period in respect of nursery education provided by them (other than provision in respect of which grant is made under paragraph (2) or would be made but for the effect of regulation 7(8)) shall be the amount obtained by multiplying the unit amount by the number of children for whom nursery education places are so provided for that period.
(4) The amount of a grant made to a person (other than an authority or a local education authority) for any grant period in respect of nursery education provided by that person in respect of those children shall be the lesser of the amounts calculated in accordance with paragraphs (5) and (6).
(5) In this paragraph, the amount is the amount obtained by multiplying the allowable unit cost by the number of those children for whom nursery education is so provided by that person during that period.
(6) In this paragraph, the amount is the amount obtained by multiplying the unit amount by the number of those children for whom nursery education is so provided by that person during that period.
(7) Subject to paragraph (8), the total amount of grant payable under this regulation in relation to the area of a local education authority in any financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1999 in respect of nursery education provided for children before whichever is the later of–
(a) the start of the first term starting after the child has attained the age of 4 years; or
(b) if the child’s fourth birthday falls within one of the periods specified in regulation 4(2), the start of the term following the term referred to in that paragraph,
shall not exceed such amount specified from time to time by the Secretary of State in relation to that local education authority area and that financial year (and for these purposes the Secretary of State may specify zero as an amount).
(8) In respect of the area of a local education authority specified in the Schedule to the Nursery Education (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 the Secretary of State may not specify an amount under paragraph (7) above in respect of the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999 which is lower than the total amount of grant which has been paid or which is payable in accordance with regulation 3(1)(a) of the Nursery Education (England) Regulations 1998 under regulation 7 of those Regulations in respect of the Autumn term, or a period equivalent or approximate thereto, falling within that financial year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/107/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/nursery-education-england-regulations-2000/regulation-8
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