
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Training Grants) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.
2 
In these Regulations a reference to the principal Regulations is a reference to the Education (Training Grants) Regulations 1987.
3 
In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations —
(1) the definition of “expenditure incurred by an authority” shall be amended by the substitution for the words “maintenance of a further education establishment”, of the words “maintenance of a special school not maintained by an authority or of an institution of further education”;
(2) the definition of “further education establishment” shall be deleted and there shall be inserted after the definition of “higher rate” the following definition —“
 “institution of further education”, means an institution providing further education or both further and higher education and either —
(a) maintained by an authority, or
(b) designated by or under regulations for the time being in force under section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988 as an institution substantially dependent for its maintenance on assistance from local education authorities or on grants under section 100(1)(b) of the Education Act 1944;”;
(3) for the definition of “higher rate” there shall be substituted the following definition —“
 “higher rate” means, in relation to expenditure incurred before 1st April 1990, 70 per cent., and in relation to expenditure incurred on or after that date, 65 per cent.;”;
(4) for the definition of “qualified teacher” there shall be substituted the following definition —“
 “qualified teacher” means a person who, by virtue of the regulations relating to the employment of teachers for the time being in force under section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988, is qualified to be employed as a teacher at a school of the kind described in subsection (12) of that section;”.
4 
In regulation 4 of the principal Regulations —
(1) item (b) shall be amended by the insertion, after the word “maintenance”, of the words “of a special school not maintained by an authority or”;
(2) items (b) and (c) shall be amended by substituting for the words “a further education establishment” the words “an institution of further education”;
(3) there shall be inserted after item (b) the following item—“
(ba) the training as teachers of students studying for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education under arrangements made with an authority for their training in schools maintained by the authority and known as the “Articled Teachers Scheme”;”.
5 
In regulation 5 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted after item (a) the following item—“
(aa) discretionary awards under section 2 of the Education Act 1962 paid as bursaries to students participating in the Articled Teachers Scheme referred to in regulation 4(ba);”.
6 
In regulation 10 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted forparagraph (4) the following paragraph—“
(4) Each authority that has received or seeks to receive a payment of grant in respect of expenditure incurred during the year ending on 31st March shall —
(a) during the three months following that date or as soon as practicable thereafter submit to the Secretary of State a claim which shall specify the expenditure in respect of which grant has been or is being claimed which has been incurred by the authority during that year; and
(b) by the following 1st October or as soon as practicable thereafter secure the submission to the Secretary of State of a certificate, signed by the auditor appointed by the Audit Commission to audit the accounts of the authority or any auditor qualified for such appointment by virtue of section 13(5) and (6) of the Local Government Finance Act 1982, certifying that in his opinion the particulars stated in the claim submitted by the authority pursuant to this paragraph are fairly stated and that a grant at the rate claimed is properly payable pursuant to these Regulations.”
John MacGregor
Secretary of State for Education and Science
12th February 1990