Statutory Instruments
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
12th July 1988
Laid before Parliament
14th July 1988
Coming into force
1st August 1988
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 18 and 35(4) of the Education Act 1980(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Science, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, hereby make the following Regulations:
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1988. They shall come into force on 1st August 1988 and shall apply in relation to a school year beginning on or after that date.
(2) In these Regulations a reference to the principal Expenses Regulations is a reference to the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1985(2), and a reference to the principal Regulations is a reference to the Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1985(3).
2. For paragraphs (3) and (4) of regulation 3 of the principal Expenses Regulations (uniform grants) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs-
"(3) In a pupil's first assisted year, uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £8,078 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed-
(a)£123, where the relevant income does not exceed £7,090;
(b)£93, where that income exceeds £7,090 but does not exceed £7,422;
(c)£61, where that income exceeds £7,422 but does not exceed £7,741;
(d)£31, where that income exceeds £7,741 but does not exceed £8,078:
Provided that any uniform grant which would fall to be paid in a pupil's first assisted year may be paid during the period commencing on 1st August 1988 and ending when that year begins.
(4) In any subsequent school year uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £7,741 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)£46, where the relevant income does not exceed £7,269;
(b)£23, where that income exceeds £7,269 but does not exceed £7,741.".
3. In regulation 4(5) of the principal Expenses Regulations (school travel grants) for the sums "£6,985" and "£6,804" there shall be substituted the sums "£7,271" and "£7,090" respectively.
4. For regulation 5 of the principal Expenses Regulations (remission of charges for meals) there shall be substituted the following regulation-
"5. Subject to regulation 6, where the parents of an assisted pupil who is a day pupil satisfy the school at any time during a school year, or the month preceding the beginning of a school year, that they are in receipt of income support under Part II of the Social Security Act 1986(4), the school shall remit the whole of any charges which they would otherwise make for meals provided for that pupil-
(a)for the whole of that school year, where they are satisfied as aforesaid at or before the beginning thereof, or
(b)for the remainder of the school year, where they are so satisfied in the course thereof,
notwithstanding that the parents may cease to be in receipt of income support between the school being so satisfied and the end of the school year in question.".
5.-(1) In paragraph (1) of regulation 6 of the principal Expenses Regulations for the words "and the amount or extent thereof" there shall be substituted the words "and, in the cases of uniform grant and school travel grant, the amount thereof".
(2) In paragraph (2) of the said regulation 6 for the reference to regulation 12(2), (3) and (4) of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted a reference to regulation 12(1A), (2), (3) and (4) thereof.
Kenneth Baker
Secretary of State for Education and Science
11th July 1988
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
12th July 1988
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1985. They come into force on 1st August 1988 and apply to a school year beginning on or after that date (regulation 1).
The means tests for uniform grants and school travel grants are relaxed (regulations 2 and 3). Remission of one half of charges for meals where parents' income does not exceed £5,917 is removed; the whole of such charges are to be remitted where parents are in receipt of income support (regulation 4).