The application of Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the 1998 Act to maintained nursery schools, made by the amendment of section 45 of the 1998 Act by paragraph 99(2) of Schedule 21 to the 2002 Act13, is to have effect in the period ending immediately before 1 April 2006 only for the purpose of financing maintained nursery schools in any financial year beginning on and after that date.