(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations make 'provision that any payment which he is required or authorised to make by or under the Education Acts shall be subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in the regulations, and that education authorities and other persons to whom such payments have been made shall comply with such requirements as may be specified in the regulations. The said regulations may include codes relating to the conduct of schools, junior colleges and other educational establishments and the education to be provided therein.
(2)Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that the persons to whom any grant is payable under the Education Acts are, by reason of the provisions of any trust deed or other instrument, unable to fulfil any condition or comply with any requirement imposed under this section, he may, after consultation with them, by order make such modifications of the said provisions as may be necessary for the purpose of enabling the said persons to fulfil that condition or comply with that requirement; and any such trust deed or other instrument shall, during such period as may be specified in the order, have effect subject to any modifications so made.
(3)Nothing in the Education Acts shall affect any grants in aid of university education payable out of moneys provided by Parliament otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of the Education Acts.
Notwithstanding anything in section sixteen of the Act of 1908 or subsection (2) of section twenty-one of the Act of 1918, the Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for payment out of the" Education (Scotland) Fund—
(a)for the purposes of promoting the progressive development of education and educational establishments and of promoting educational research, of such sums as he may think necessary;
(b)for the purpose of enabling pupils over school age to take advantage without hardship to themselves or their parents of any educational facilities available to them, of sums by way of scholarships, bursaries and other allowances ;
(c)of grants in respect of any residential institution not under the management of an education authority which is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State to be either—
(i)a special school attended largely by pupils whose parents or guardians are resident outside the education area in which the school is situated, or
(ii)an orphanage required for the proper education of pupils destitute of efficient guardianship.