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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Nursery Education (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st September 1999.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Nursery Education (England) Regulations 1998.
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For regulation 3 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following regulation–“
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(1) For the purposes of section 1(2)(b) of the Act (prescribing a time, earlier than the time in section 1(2)(a), after which education provided for children is nursery education) there is prescribed–
(a) in relation to education provided for a child at a school or other premises in the area of a local education authority specified in column (1) of the Schedule to these Regulations who does not fall within sub-paragraph (b) below the day immediately preceding the later of–
(i) the start of the first term starting after the child has attained the age of 3 years; or
(ii) if the child’s third birthday falls within one of the periods specified in paragraph (2), the start of the term following the term referred to in that paragraph;
(b) in relation to education provided for any other child the day immediately preceding the later of–
(i) the start of the first term starting after the child has attained the age of 4 years; or
(ii) if the child’s fourth birthday falls within one of the periods specified in paragraph (2), the start of the term following the term referred to in that paragraph.
(2) The periods referred to in paragraphs (1)(a)(ii) and (1)(b)(ii) are, in any year,
(a) the period commencing 1st April and ending with the start of the Summer term of that year;
(b) the period commencing 1st September and ending with the start of the Autumn term of that year;
(c) the period commencing 1st January and ending with the start of the Spring term of that year.
(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this regulation “term” means the term kept in relation to the education provided, or to be provided, or under consideration, for the child, as the case may be, and, in any year, Spring term, Summer term and Autumn term mean, respectively, the term which starts in January, in April and in September.
(4) The amount of grant payable in respect of education provided in accordance with paragraphs (1)(a) and (1)(b) shall be calculated separately under regulations 6 and 7.
(5) The total amount of grant payable under regulation 7 in respect of education provided in accordance with paragraph (1)(a) shall not exceed the amount specified in column (2) of the Schedule.”
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At the end of the principal regulations there shall be inserted the Schedule to these Regulations.
Margaret Hodge
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Education and Employment
26th July 1999
THE SCHEDULE
Regulation 3
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THE SCHEDULE
Regulation 3(1) and 3(5)


Column 1 Column 2
LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY MAXIMUM GRANT ALLOCATION
 £
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham 197,365
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 666,671
Birmingham City Council 4,564,245
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council 451,980
Blackpool Borough Council 796,991
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council 563,468
Bradford City Council 919,026
London Borough of Brent 766,106
London Borough of Camden 625,992
Coventry City Council 925,806
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council 446,707
Durham County Council 226,743
London Borough of Ealing 308,853
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council 470,813
London Borough of Greenwich 618,459
London Borough of Hackney 1,087,765
Halton Borough Council 409,795
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham 448,214
London Borough of Haringey 530,323
Hartlepool Borough Council 25,612
London Borough of Hounslow 188,325
London Borough of Islington 785,692
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council 346,518
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council 48,965
London Borough of Lambeth 1,239,932
Leeds City Council 939,365
Leicester City Council 1,063,660
London Borough of Lewisham 1,179,668
Liverpool City Council 879,101
Manchester City Council 424,108
Middlesbrough Borough Council 42,938
Newcastle upon Tyne City Council 574,015
London Borough of Newham 1,218,839
North East Lincolnshire District Council 473,826
North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council 51,224
Nottingham City Council 765,353
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council 818,084
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council 40,678
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council 677,970
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council 893,414
Salford City Council 116,008
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council 351,038
Sheffield City Council 1,932,215
South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council 54,991
London Borough of Southwark 721,661
St. Helens Metropolitan Borough Council 212,431
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council 49,718
Stoke-on-Trent City Council 330,699
Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council 353,298
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council 446,707
London Borough of Tower Hamlets 207,158
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council 437,667
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council 76,837
London Borough of Waltham Forest 1,176,655
London Borough of Wandsworth 1,206,033
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council 1,082,492
Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council 75,330”