The Education (Grants) (City Technology Colleges) Regulations 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 1138

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education (Grants) (City Technology Colleges) Regulations 1987

Made

1st July 1987

Laid before Parliament

13th July 1987

Coming into force

10th August 1987

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 100(1)(b) and (3) of the Education Act 1944(1) and vested in the Secretary of State(2), the Secretary of State for Education and Science hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Grants) (City Technology Colleges) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 6th August 1987.

(2) In these Regulations “city technology college” means an independent school situated in England which is for the time being recognised by the Secretary of State as a city technology college or a proposed independent school to be situated in England the proposals for which are, for the time being, recognised by the Secretary of State as proposals for a city technology college as the context may require.

Payments of grant

2.—(1) The Secretary of State may pay grants of such amounts as he may determine to persons other than local education authorities in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them for the purposes of establishing, altering or maintaining a city technology college, which expenditure is for the time being approved by the Secretary of State.

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

Conditions of Payment

3.  The making of payments of grant under these Regulations shall be dependent on the fulfilment of such conditions as may be specified by the Secretary of State in the case in question.

Requirements to be observed

4.  The persons to whom payments of grant are made under these Regulations shall comply with such requirements (including requirements as to the repayment of grant or the payment to the Secretary of State of other sums representing the value of property acquired, altered or maintained with the aid of grant or interest on sums due to him) as may be specified by the Secretary of State in the case in question.

5.  Without prejudice to the generality of regulation 4, the persons to whom payments of grant are made under these Regulations shall—

(a) keep such records and accounts and furnish to the Secretary of State such information, documents, returns and accounts as the Secretary of State may from time to time require;

(b) open to the inspection of the Comptroller and Auditor General the records and accounts kept pursuant to the requirement imposed under paragraph (a) above;

(c) where grant has been paid in respect of expenditure to be incurred and the expenditure or part of it is not incurred, repay on application made in that behalf by the Secretary of State the grant paid or the proportionate part thereof;

(d) open or cause to be opened to inspection by a person authorised for the purposes hereof by the Secretary of State any city technology college or any premises which are the subject of proposals recognised by the Secretary of State as proposals for a city technology college and to afford to any such person all the facilities he requires for inspecting such college or premises.

Kenneth Baker

Secretary of State for Education and Science

1st July 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations authorise the Secretary of State to pay grants to persons to meet or help to meet expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them in establishing, altering or maintaining a city technology college. Grants are payable in respect of expenditure which is approved by the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State may determine the amounts and timing of payments (regulations 1 and 2).

The Secretary of State may specify conditions to be satisfied before grant is payable (regulation 3).

The Secretary of State may also specify requirements to be complied with by recipients of grant. These may include requirements to repay grant or to pay to the Secretary of State sums representing the value of property acquired with grant and to pay interest on overdue sums (regulation 4).

The Regulations require recipients of grant to keep such records and accounts and to furnish such information, documents, returns and accounts to the Secretary of State as he may require, to open their records and accounts to inspection by the Comptroller and Auditor General and to repay on application by the Secretary of State all or part of grant paid in respect of expenditure to be incurred where the expenditure is not, or not wholly, incurred. The Regulations also provide for inspection by an authorised person of any city technology college or premises in which it is proposed to establish such a college (regulation 5).

(1)

1944 c. 31.

(2)

S.I. 1964/490, 1970/1536, 1978/274.