The Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2002

Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 15th March 2002.

(2) These Regulations shall apply for the purposes of the financing of maintained schools in England in the financial year beginning on 1st April 2002.

(3) In these Regulations—

“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996(1);

“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;

“the 1999 Regulations” means the Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1999(2);

“the 2000 Regulations” means the Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2000(3);

“the 2001 Regulations” means the Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2001(4).

(4) In these Regulations “maintained school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community or foundation special school.

(5) In these Regulations a reference to proposals for the establishment of a school is a reference to a proposal for the establishment of the school under section 35, 41 or 339(1) of the 1996 Act or section 28 or 31 of, or paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to, the 1998 Act.

(6) In these Regulations, except in Part IV where the definition in regulation 28 applies, a reference (however framed) to a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community or foundation special school includes a proposed school which on implementation of proposals for the establishment of the school will be such a school and which has a temporary governing body.

(7) In these Regulations a reference to a governing body includes the temporary governing body of a proposed school falling within paragraph (6).

(8) In these Regulations a reference to a primary or secondary school means a primary or secondary school which is a community, foundation or voluntary school.

(9) In these Regulations a reference (however framed) to schools maintained by a local education authority does not include schools which are not maintained schools as defined in paragraph (4).

(10) In these Regulations a reference to the permanent exclusion of a pupil is a reference to his permanent exclusion as defined from time to time for the purposes of section 494 of the 1996 Act(5).

(11) In these Regulations references to net expenditure or to a net local schools budget—

(a)are references to that expenditure or that local schools budget net of related fees, charges, specific grant or other income received by the local education authority;

(b)except that there is not to be deducted in order to arrive at the net local schools budget, any specific grant which is used to support expenditure through the individual schools budget or which is a specific grant only to the extent that it has to be used for supporting any or all of the authority’s expenditure through the local schools budget.

(12) In these Regulations a reference to a former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school is a reference to a school which was such a school within the meaning of the 1996 Act immediately before 1st April 1999.

(13) In these Regulations a reference to the LSC is a reference to the Learning and Skills Council for England(6).

(14) Unless the context otherwise requires, words or expressions used in these Regulations set out in the first column of the following table shall have the meanings attributed to them by the provisions set out opposite thereto in the second column.

(15) Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation, Part or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Part of, or Schedule to, these Regulations so numbered and a reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears.