Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973

Expenses and grants

51 Expenses and grants payable out of moneys provided by Parliament

(1) Any expenses of the Secretary of State under this Part of this Act, and any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State—

(a) in the training of probation officers or of officers or servants serving in approved probation hostels or homes, or of persons for appointment as probation officers, or as officers or servants in such hostels or homes; or

(b) in the conduct of research into the causes of delinquency and the treatment of offenders, and matters connected therewith;

shall, to such amount as may be sanctioned by the Treasury, be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(2) The Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury provide for the making of payments towards the cost of the maintenance of persons attending at day training centres and their dependants.

(3) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament—

(a) towards the expenditure of local authorities, and the expenditure out of the metropolitan police fund, under Schedule 3 to this Act;

(b) towards the expenditure of probation and after-care committees in providing and carrying on, under paragraph 11 of that Schedule, bail hostels, probation hostels and probation homes;

(c) towards the expenditure of any society or person in enlarging, improving or carrying on bail hostels or approved probation hostels or homes or establishing, enlarging or improving premises which, when established, enlarged or improved, will be bail hostels or approved probation hostels or homes ;

(d) towards the expenditure of any body approved by the Secretary of State in the training of probation officers or of persons for appointment as probation officers;

(e) towards the expenditure of any body approved by the Secretary of State in the training of officers or servants serving in any place in which offenders or persons awaiting trial may be detained or serving in approved probation hostels or homes or the training of persons for appointment as such officers or servants;

(f) towards the expenditure of any society or individual engaged in supervising or assisting persons convicted of offences with a view to their rehabilitation ;

(g) towards the expenditure of any body or person approved by the Secretary of State in the conduct of research into the causes of delinquency and the treatment of offenders, and matters connected therewith;

such sums as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury direct, and subject to such conditions as he may with the like approval determine.

(4) Subject to subsection (5) below, the Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, make regulations providing for the deduction from any sums which would otherwise be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament to local authorities, whether under subsection (3) above or under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, of such amounts as may be prescribed by the regulations in respect of expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State—

(a) in the training of any such officers, servants or other persons as are mentioned in subsection (1) above;

(b) in making any payments under paragraph (c) or (d) of subsection (3) above;

(c) in making payments under paragraph (e) of subsection (3) above in respect of expenditure incurred in the training of officers or servants serving in approved probation hostels or homes or the training of persons for appointment as such officers or servants.

(5) The sums to be deducted in respect of any expenditure of the Secretary of State in pursuance of any regulations made under subsection (4) above shall not exceed half that expenditure.

(6) The conditions subject to which any sums are paid to a probation and after-care committee under paragraph (b) of subsection (3) above may include conditions for securing the repayment in whole or in part of the sums received by the committee if the hostel or home in question ceases to be used as such.

(7) The conditions subject to which any sums are paid to any society or person under paragraph (c) of subsection (3) above may include conditions for securing the repayment in whole or in part of the sums received by the society or person—

(a) where the sums are paid in respect of a bail hostel, if it ceases to be used as such;

(b) where the sums are paid in respect of an approved probation hostel or home, if it ceases to be approved ; and, notwithstanding anything in the constitution of the hostel or home in question or of the managers thereof, or in the trusts, if any, to which the property of the hostel or home or of the managers is subject, the managers and any persons who are trustees of any of the property in question may accept those sums on those conditions, and execute any instrument required for carrying into effect those conditions, and shall be bound by those conditions and by any instrument so executed and have power to fulfil the conditions and the obligations created by the instrument.

(8) All sums received by the Secretary of State under this section shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.