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Youth Work Budget.
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12.—(1) On or before such date as the Minister shall direct, an education board shall prepare and submit to the Minister a report on the estimate of its expenditure and income for the purposes of this Act (in this Act referred to as a “Youth Work Budget”) for the next following financial year.
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(2) A Youth Work Budget shall be prepared in such form and contain such information as may be specified in directions issued by the Minister and shall have regard to the most recent Development Plan that has been approved by the Minister.
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(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsections (1) and (2), in preparing a Youth Work Budget an education board shall—
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(a) specify, for the financial year concerned, the youth work programmes and youth work services in respect of which the education board proposes to provide financial assistance,
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(b) provide an estimate of the expenditure in relation to a youth work programme or a youth work service or both that are required to be specified under paragraph (a),
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(c) provide an estimate of the income of the education board, including the sources of such income, for the purposes of this Act, for the financial year concerned, and
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(d) consult with the youth work committee,
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and the education board shall not incur any expenditure for the purposes of this Act for the financial year concerned until such Youth Work Budget has been adopted in accordance with this section.
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(4) A Youth Work Budget shall be deemed to be adopted when it has been approved in writing by the Minister.
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(5) Prior to approving a Youth Work Budget that has been submitted to the Minister for approval in accordance with this section, the Minister may amend such Youth Work Budget and the education board concerned shall comply with any such amendment.
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(6) Where an education board does not submit a Youth Work Budget in accordance with this section, the Minister may, after such consultation as the Minister considers necessary, determine the maximum amount of expenditure that may be incurred by the education board for the purposes of this Act for the financial year concerned and shall notify the education board in writing of the amount so determined within 21 days of such determination and shall, in such notice, specify the date on which such Youth Work Budget shall be deemed to have been adopted.
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(7) The Minister may issue directions to an education board in relation to the preparation of a Youth Work Budget and such education board shall comply with any such directions.
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(8) In this Act “financial year” means such period of 12 months as may be prescribed.
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