# School Standards and Framework Act 1998, Section 51A: Expenditure incurred for community purposes

Extent: E+W

(1) Expenditure incurred by the governing body of a maintained school in Wales in the exercise of the power conferred by section 27 of the Education Act 2002 (power of governing body to provide community facilities etc.) shall, as against third parties, be treated as part of the expenses of maintaining the school under section 22, but if met by the local authority may be recovered by them from the governing body.
(2) Except as provided by regulations under section 50(3)(b), no expenditure incurred by the governing body of a maintained school in Wales in the exercise of the power referred to in subsection (1) shall be met from the school’s budget share for any funding period.
(3) Subsection (2) applies at a time when the school does not have a delegated budget by virtue of any suspension under ... Schedule 15 or section 8 of the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013, as well as a time when it does have a delegated budget.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/section/51A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-51A
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