Common use of Eligibility Rules Clause in Contracts

Eligibility Rules. 5.1 The Secretary of State will only pay the Grant in respect of Eligible Expenditure incurred by the Recipient to deliver the Project and the Recipient will use the Grant solely for delivery of the Project in accordance with the Project Programme. 5.2 The only costs/payments that will be classified as Eligible Expenditure are those specific items of expenditure set out in the Project Programme. 5.3 Notwithstanding any items of expenditure set out in the Project Programme, the Recipient may not use the Grant to meet any of the following payments: 5.3.1 paid for lobbying, which means using the Grant to fund lobbying (via an external firm or in-house staff) in order to undertake activities intended to influence or attempt to influence Parliament, government or political activity; or attempting to influence legislative or regulatory action; 5.3.2 using the Grant to directly enable one part of government to challenge another on topics unrelated to the agreed purpose of the Grant; 5.3.3 using the Grant to petition for additional funding; 5.3.4 expenses such as for entertaining, specifically aimed at exerting undue influence to change government policy; 5.3.5 input VAT reclaimable by the Recipient from HMRC; 5.3.6 payments for activities of a political or exclusively religious nature; 5.3.7 contributions in kind; 5.3.8 interest payments or service charge payments for finance leases; 5.3.9 gifts; 5.3.10 entertaining (meaning anything that would be a taxable benefit to the person being entertained, according to current UK tax regulations); 5.3.11 statutory fines, criminal fines or penalties, civil penalties, damages or any associated legal costs; 5.3.12 costs incurred in giving evidence to Parliamentary Select Committees; 5.3.13 costs incurred in attending meetings with government ministers or civil servants to discuss the progress of the Project; 5.3.14 costs incurred in responding to public consultations or costs incurred in lobbying other people to respond to any such consultation; 5.3.15 costs incurred in providing independent evidence based advice to local or national government as part of the general policy debate; 5.3.16 payments for works or activities which the Recipient has a statutory duty to undertake, or that are fully funded by other sources; 5.3.17 bad debts to related parties; 5.3.18 payments for unfair dismissal or other compensation; 5.3.19 depreciation, amortisation or impairment of assets owned by the Grant Recipient; and/or 5.3.20 liabilities incurred before the Grant Payment Date unless expressly included in the Project Programme.