The Education (Infant Class Sizes) (Grant) Regulations 1999

PART II PAYMENT OF GRANTS

Infant class grant

3.  Subject to regulations 4 and 5, the Secretary of State may pay grants (“infant class grant”) to a local education authority in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them for the purpose of ensuring that the limit imposed by Regulations(1) made under section 1 of the 1998 Act is complied with in relation to infant classes at relevant schools, but only to the extent to which that expenditure is approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this regulation.

Withholding of grant

4.  The Secretary of State may not pay any infant class grant to a local education authority where no proposed arrangements by that authority have been approved by him under section 2 of the 1998 Act.

Determination of amount of grant

5.  When determining whether any infant class grant (and if so, what amount) should be paid by him to a local education authority, the Secretary of State shall have regard to their proposed arrangements as so approved by him under section 2 of the 1998 Act.

Rate of grant

6.  Grant paid under these Regulations may be of any amount (determined by the Secretary of State) up to 100 per cent. of the approved expenditure to which it relates.

Payment of Grant

7.  Payments of grant under these Regulations shall be made at such times and in such instalments as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate.

(1)

See, in relation to schools in England, the Education (Infant Class Sizes) (England) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1973); and, in relation to schools in Wales, the Education (Infant Class Sizes) (Wales) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1943). Both sets of Regulations came into force on 1st September 1998.