Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953

8 Amendments of ss. 103 to 105 of principal Act as to matters in respect of which Minister may make grants and loans

(1) Subsection (1) of section one hundred and three of the principal Act (which empowers the Minister to pay to the managers or governors of a voluntary school proposed to be transferred to a new site or established in substitution for any discontinued school or schools and to be maintained as an aided school or a special agreement school a grant not exceeding one-half of any sums expended by them in the construction of the school) shall—

(a) in relation to a school of which the transfer has been authorised by the Minister, have effect as if, for the reference therein to the construction of the school, there were substituted a reference to the provision (whether before or after the passing of this Act) of the school buildings ; and

(b) in relation to a school of which the establishment has been directed by the Minister to be in substitution for a school or schools to be discontinued, have effect as if, for the reference therein to the construction of the school, there were substituted a reference to the provision (whether before or after the passing of this Act) of a site for the school and of the school buildings.

(2) Subsection (1) of section one hundred and four of the principal Act shall have effect as if, for the reference therein to the construction of the school, there were substituted a reference to the provision (whether before or after the passing of this Act) of a site for the school and of the school buildings.

(3) Section one hundred and five of the principal Act (which empowers the Minister to make to the managers or governors of an aided school or a special agreement school a loan for the purpose of helping them to meet capital expenditure involved in defraying their share of the initial expenses relating to the school specified in subsection (2) of that section) shall have effect—

(a) as if the reference in paragraph (a) of that subsection to expenses to be incurred in defraying the cost of any alterations required by the development plan approved by the Minister for the area included a reference to expenses incurred before the passing of this Act or to be incurred thereafter in defraying the cost of any alterations specified in that plan as submitted to the Minister, being alterations to the carrying out of which the Minister has given approval before the approval by him of the plan; and

(b) as if, for the reference in paragraph (c) of that subsection to expenses to be incurred in the construction of any school which, by virtue of an order made under section sixteen of the principal Act, is deemed not to be a newly established school or is deemed to be in substitution for any discontinued school or schools, there were substituted a reference to expenses incurred before the passing of this Act or to be incurred thereafter—

(i) in the case of a school which, by virtue of an order under subsection (1) of the said section sixteen, is deemed not to be a newly established school, in providing the school buildings ;

(ii) in the case of a school which, by virtue of subsection (2) of that section, is deemed to be in substitution for any discontinued school or schools, in providing a site for the school and in providing the school buildings.