1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 15th August 1987.

(2) In these Regulations a reference to the Aided Pupil Scheme is a reference to the scheme described in Schedule 1 to the Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) Regulations 1985(3).

2.  In the Aided Pupil Scheme-

(1) in sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) of paragraph 7 (deduction for dependent relatives) for the sum "£900" there shall be substituted the sum "£950";

(2) in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 12 (remission of fees - boarding pupils) for the sum "£5,859" there shall be substituted the sum "£6,002";

(3) for the Table in the said paragraph 12 there shall be substituted the following Table -

(4) in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 13 (remission of fees - day pupils) for the sum "£7,359" there shall be substituted the sum "£7,539";

(5) in sub-paragraph (3) of the said paragraph 13 for the sum "£7,210" there shall be substituted the sum "£7,390";

(6) in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 15 (remission of charges for meals - day pupils) for the sum "£5,773" there shall be substituted the sum "£5,917";

(7) for sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) of paragraph 16 (uniform grants) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs -

"(3) Unless an aided pupil has been a pupil at the school before taking up an aided place, in a pupil's first year at the school uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an aided pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £7,752, and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed-

(a)£118, where the relevant income does not exceed £6,804;

(b)£89, where that income exceeds £6,804 but does not exceed £7,123;

(c)£59, where that income exceeds £7,123 but does not exceed £7,429;

(d)£30, where that income exceeds £7,429 but does not exceed £7,752:

Provided that any uniform grant which would fall to be paid in pursuance of this sub-paragraph in an aided pupil's first year at the school may be paid during the period commencing on 15th August 1987 and ending when that year begins.

(4) Except where sub-paragraph (3) applies, uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an aided pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £7,429 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure (disregarding expenditure in respect of which a previous grant has been paid) as does not exceed -

(a)£44, where the relevant income does not exceed £6,976;

(b)£22, where that income exceeds £6,976 but does not exceed £7,429";

(8) in sub-paragraph (1)(a) of paragraph 22 (school travel grants) for the sum "£6,819" there shall be substituted the sum "£6,985" and in sub-paragraph (1)(b) of that paragraph for the sum "£6,638" there shall be substituted the sum "£6,804";

(9) in paragraph 3 of the Appendix (computation of income) -

(a)at the end of sub-paragraph (h) the word "or" shall be deleted;

(b)after sub-paragraph (i) there shall be inserted -

"(j)in pursuance of section 27 of the Finance Act 1986(4) (relief for donations made under payroll deduction scheme), or

(k)in pursuance of regulations made under Schedule 8 to the Finance Act 1986 (relief for investments under personal equity plans),".

3.  To Schedule 2 to the Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) Regulations 1985 there shall be added the following paragraph -

"Corporal Punishment

12.  No person shall be debarred from receiving education under the Aided Pupil Scheme (whether by refusing to select him, suspending his attendance or otherwise) by reason of the fact that section 47 of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986(5) applies in relation to him, or if he were selected might so apply.".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) Regulations 1985. They come into force on 15th August 1987, which (in connection with the amendment in regulation 3) is the date on which section 47 of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 (c. 61) (abolition of corporal punishment) comes into force (regulation 1).

The deduction for dependent children and relatives which is to be made from relevant income is increased from £900 to £950. The means tests for the remission of fees and meal charges, and for uniform grants and school travel grants are relaxed; the level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is set at £6,002 in place of the present £5,859 for boarders and £7,539 in place of the present £7,359 for day pupils (regulation 2).

References to the relevant income tax legislation in the Appendix to Schedule 1 to the 1985 Regulations, as amended by the 1986 Regulations, are updated, so as to discount deductions from total income of donations made under a payroll deduction scheme and reinvested dividend income under personal equity plans (regulation 2).

To the conditions to which the making of payments of grant in pursuance of the 1985 Regulations is subject there is added a condition that existing and potential pupils of the aided pupil scheme under those Regulations shall not be debarred from education thereunder on account of the application of section 47 of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 (regulation 3).