Part IIFurther Education and Sixth Form Education: Wales

Main powers

36 Funding of school sixth-forms.

(1)

The F1Welsh Ministers may make a grant to a F2local authority—

(a)

on the condition that the grant be applied as part of the authority’s F3schools budget for a F4funding period , and

(b)

with a view to the grant being used for the purposes of, or for purposes connected with, the provision by schools of education suitable to the requirements of persons above compulsory school age.

(2)

A grant made under this section may be made on conditions in addition to the condition mentioned in subsection (1)(a) (including conditions of a kind which could be imposed under section 35).

F5(3)

In this section—

  • “ funding period ” means a financial year or, if some other period is prescribed in relation to Wales under subsection (1B) of section 45 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (maintained schools to have budget shares), that other period;

  • F6“local authority” means a local authority in Wales (within the meaning of section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996);

  • “ schools budget ” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of that Act (framework for maintained schools).