The Education (Grants for Education Support and Training: Nursery Education) (England) Regulations 1996

Expenditure in respect of which grants are payable

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4) below grant shall be payable under the Act in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred during the financial year ending in 1996 or in 1997 by a local education authority mentioned in paragraph (2) below for or in connection with the provision of nursery education during the financial year ending in 1997.

(2) The local education authorities referred to in paragraph (1) above are—

• Norfolk County Council;

• The Council of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea;

• The Council of the London Borough of Wandsworth;

• Westminster City Council.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above “nursery education” is education which is provided for a child who has attained the age of four and is provided at any time preceding his first school term starting after his fifth birthday (or, if he does not attend school, before the latest time at which he might reasonably have been expected to have begun to attend school if he had attended school).

(4) Grants shall only be payable in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred in either of the financial years referred to above to the extent that the expenditure is approved for that year for the purposes of these Regulations.