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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Amendment) Regulations 1988.
(2) This Regulation shall come into force on 1st August 1988. Regulations 2 to 4 of these Regulations shall come into force on that date for the purposes of–
(a) determining a child’s eligibility, or his selection, for an assisted place to be taken up on or after 1st September 1988; and
(b) determining remission questions (within the meaning of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations) for a school year, or part of a school year, beginning on or after that date
and on 1st September 1988 for all other purposes.
(3) In these Regulations a reference to the principal Regulations is a reference to the Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1985.
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(1) At the end of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations there shall be added the following paragraph–“
(3) A school shall not select for an assisted place a child the whole of whose fees for his first assisted year are required to be paid in pursuance of an order of a court.”.
(2) In regulation 12 of the principal Regulations after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–“
(1A) The parents of an assisted pupil shall not be entitled to any remission of fees which are required to be paid in pursuance of an order of a court.”.
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In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (computation of income)–
(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (a) there shall be added the words “or provided for in section 26 of the Finance Act 1987 or, so far as applicable in respect of a financial year ending after 5th April 1988, the corresponding provision contained in the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988”;
(b) after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be inserted–“
(bb) in pursuance of section 31 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 or, so far as applicable in respect of a financial year ending after 5th April 1988, the corresponding provision contained in the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (relief for contributions to personal pension schemes);”.
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In paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (scales of remission) for the sum “£6,972” there shall be substituted the sum “£7,258” and for the Table in paragraph 2 of that Schedule there shall be substituted the following Table–“

(1) (2) (3) (4)
Part of relevant income to which specified percentage applies Only assisted pupil Each of two assisted pupils Each of three assisted pupils
That part which exceeds £7,092 but does not exceed £7,711 9% 6.75% 5.25%
That part (if any) which exceeds £7,711 but does not exceed £8,341 12% 9% 7%
That part (if any) which exceeds £8,341 but does not exceed £9,591 15% 11.25% 8.75%
That part (if any) which exceeds £9,591 but does not exceed £11,513 21% 15.75% 12.25%
That part (if any) which exceeds £11,513 but does not exceed £14,023 24% 18% 14%
That part (if any) which exceeds £14,023 33% 24.75% 19.25%”
Kenneth Baker
Secretary of State for Education and Science
11th July 1988Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
12th July 1988