1. These Regulations may be cited as the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Provision of Grants) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

2. The Service may provide a grant to any person for the purpose of furthering the performance of any of its functions provided that the grant—

(a) is used for no purpose other than furthering the performance of the Service’s functions; and

(b) is not used to acquire land.

3. —(1) The Service shall provide a person with no more than one grant for each particular purpose in any one year.

(2) The Service shall provide each grant for a period of no more than one year and this shall be known as the “grant period”.

(3) The Service shall specify, when providing the grant, the date on which the grant period ends.

4. —(1) At the end of the grant period the person in receipt of the grant shall repay to the Service any amount of the grant that has not been expended.

(2) If a person uses a grant for a purpose that is prohibited by regulation 2, the whole of the grant shall be repaid immediately.