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

• Citation: S.I. 1987/1138
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(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.

Section 2 Payments of grant

(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.

Section 3 Conditions of Payment

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.

Section 4 Requirements to be observed

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.

Section 5 Requirements to be observed

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.