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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) (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 Aided Pupil Scheme is a reference to the scheme described in Schedule 1 to the Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) Regulations 1985.
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In the Aided Pupil Scheme—   
(1)  in Part I there shall be added after paragraph 4 the following paragraph—“
4A.  A school shall not select for an aided place a child the whole of whose fees for the school year in which he would take up his aided place if selected therefor are required to be paid in pursuance of an order of a court.”;
(2) in paragraph 9 after sub-paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—  “
(1A)  The parents of an aided pupil shall not be entitled to any remission of fees or charges which are required to be paid in pursuance of an order of a court.”;
(3) in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 12 (remission of fees—boarding pupils) for the sum“£6,002” there shall be substituted the sum“£6,248”;
(4) for the Table in the said paragraph 12 there shall be substituted the following Table—“

TABLE
(1) (2) (3)
Part of the relevant income to which specified percentage applies Only aided pupil Each of two aided pupils
That part which exceeds £6,099 but does not exceed £7,700 10% 7.5%
That part (if any) which exceeds £7,700 but does not exceed £10,819 20% 15%
That part (if any) which exceeds £10,819 10% 7.5%”
(5) in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 13 (remission of fees—day pupils) for the sum“£7,539” there shall be substituted the sum“£7,849”;
(6) in sub-paragraph (3) of the said paragraph 13 for the sum“£7,390” there shall be substituted the sum“£7,700”;
(7) for paragraph 15 (remission of charges for meals—day pupils) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—  “
15.  Where the parents of an aided 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 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.”;
(8) 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 £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 pursuance of this sub-paragraph in an aided pupil’s first year at the school may be paid during the period commencing on 1st August 1988 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 £7,741 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.”;
(9) in sub-paragraph (1)(a) of paragraph 22 (school travel grants) for the sum“£6,985” there shall be substituted the sum“£7,271” and in sub-paragraph (1)(b) of that paragraph for the sum“£6,804” there shall be substituted the sum“£7,090”;
(10) in paragraph 3 of the Appendix (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);”.
Kenneth Baker
Secretary of State for Education and Science
11th July 1988