Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Grants for Improvements in School Education (Scotland) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 15th January 1999.

Grants for Improvements in school education

2. The Secretary of State may pay to-

(a)an education authority;

(b)the managers of a grant-aided school; or

(c)the board of management of a self-governing school.

In accordance with these Regulations, grants in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them, in accordance with proposals approved by the Secretary of State, for the purpose of improving in any respect the quality or effectiveness of provision of school education.

Determination and payment of grants

3.-(1) Grants under these Regulations shall be of such amounts and paid at such rates and in respect of such periods as the Secretary of State may determine.

(2) Grants under these Regulations may be paid as single payments or by instalments of such amounts and at such times as the Secretary of State may determine.

Conditions for payment of grant

4.-(1) No payment of grant shall be made except in response to an application made in writing to the Secretary of State.

(2) The Secretary of State may from time to time determine further conditions on the fulfilment of which the making of any payment in pursuance of these Regulations shall be dependent.

(3) Where conditions have been determined in pursuance of paragraph (2), no grant shall be payable unless such conditions have either been fulfilled or been withdrawn in pursuance of paragraph (4).

(4) The Secretary of State may determine to withdraw or, after consulting the applicant, vary conditions determined in pursuance of paragraph (2).

Requirements relating to grants

5.-(1) A person to whom grant has been paid shall, if so required by the Secretary of State, provide him with such information as may be required to enable him to verify that any grant has been properly paid and applied under these Regulations.

(2) A person to whom grant has been paid shall comply with such requirements as may be determined by the Secretary of State in the case in question.

(3) Requirements determined under paragraph (2) may include requirements as to-�

(a)the repayment of grant;

(b)the payment to the Secretary of State of sums related to the value of assets acquired, provided or improved with the aid of grant; or

(c)the payment of interest on sums due to the Secretary of State.

Revocation and saving

6.-(1) The Grants for School Education (Early Intervention and Alternatives to Exclusion) (Scotland) Regulations 1997(2) are hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of those Regulations is without prejudice to their continued effect in relation to any application made under them before these Regulations come into force and on which payment of grant has not been completed.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations enable the Secretary of State to pay grant to education authorities, grant-aided schools and self-governing schools in Scotland for the purpose of improving the quality or effectiveness of provision of school education.

They supersede, but are considerably wider in scope than, the Grants for School Education (Early Intervention and Alternatives to Exclusion) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 which are revoked.