Local Government Act 1958

4 (1) A supplementary grant shall be payable if the estimated ratio which the aggregate number of pupils on the registers of schools maintained or assisted by the local education authority, of pupils at other schools the fees for whose education are paid by that authority (such adjustment being made, in the case of pupils in schools in receipt of grant from the Minister of Education or any description of such schools, as may be prescribed), and of children in attendance at occupation centres provided for the purpose of paragraph (cc) of section thirty of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 bears to the population of the area of the authority exceeds a prescribed ratio, and the amount of the grant shall be a prescribed sum multiplied by the excess and by the estimated population of the area of the authority.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—

(a) children belonging to the area of one local education authority who are pupils on the register of a school maintained or assisted by the local education authority for another area shall, if it is so prescribed, be treated as if the school were maintained or assisted by the authority for the first-mentioned area and not by the authority for the other area;

(b) children belonging to the area of one local health authority who are in attendance at occupation centres provided by the local health authority for another area shall, if it is so prescribed, be treated as if the centre were provided by the authority for the first-mentioned area and not by the authority for the other area.