# School Standards and Framework Act 1998, Section 45: Maintained schools to have budget shares.

Extent: E+W

(1) For the purposes of the financing of maintained schools by local authorities, every such school shall have, for each funding period, a budget share which is allocated to it by the authority which maintains it.
(1A) In this Chapter “maintained school” means—
(a) a community, foundation or voluntary school,
(b) a community or foundation special school, ...
(c) a maintained nursery school , or
(d) a pupil referral unit in England.
(1B) In this Chapter “funding period” means a financial year or such other period as may be prescribed.
(2) Sections 45A to 47 have effect for determining the amount of a school’s budget share for a funding period.
(3) In this Chapter—
(a) references to schools maintained by a local authority do not include pupil referral units in Wales;
(aa) references to the governing body of a maintained school or of a school maintained by a local authority shall be read, in relation to a pupil referral unit in England, as references to the management committee for the unit (in spite of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1996);
(ab) references to governors shall be read, in relation to a pupil referral unit in England, as references to the members of the management committee for the unit;
(b) references, in a context referring to a local authority, to a maintained school or to a school maintained by such an authority shall be read as including a new school—
(i) which on implementation of proposals under any enactment will be a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community or foundation special school maintained by the authority, and
(ii) which has a temporary governing body; and
(c) references to the governing body of a maintained school or of a school maintained by a local authority shall accordingly be read as including the temporary governing body of a new school falling within paragraph (b).
(4) In this Chapter “new school” (without more) has the meaning given by section 72(3).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/section/45 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-45
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