
1 
These Regulations—
(a) may be cited as the Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1998;
(b) shall come into force on 1st September 1998; and
(c) shall apply in relation to a school year beginning on or after that date.
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The Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) Regulations 1995 shall be amended as specified in regulations 3 and 4 below.
3 
In Schedule 1—
(a) in paragraph 8, in sub-paragraphs (3) and (5), for “£1,230” in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted “£1,265”,
(b) in paragraph 13(2), for “£8,723” there shall be substituted “£8,963”;
(c) for the table in paragraph 13(3), there shall be substituted the following 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 £8,814 but does not exceed £11,126 10% 7.5%
That part (if any) which exceeds £11,126 but does not exceed £15,634 20% 15%
That part (if any) which exceeds £15,634 12.5% 7.5%”;
(d) in paragraph 14—
(i) in sub-paragraph (2), for “£10,972” there shall be substituted “£11,275”, and
(ii) in sub-paragraph (3), for “£10,823” there shall be substituted “£11,126”;
(e) for paragraph 17(3), there shall be substituted—“
(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), the school shall pay uniform grant to the parents in the case of an aided pupil—
(i) who is in his first year at a school as an aided pupil, and
(ii) as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £11,673,of an amount equal to so much of the parents' clothing expenditure as does not exceed—
(a) £179 where the relevant income does not exceed £10,248;
(b) £134 where that income exceeds £10,248 but does not exceed £10,725;
(c) £87 where that income exceeds £10,725 but does not exceed £11,186; and
(d) £45 where that income exceeds £11,186 but does not exceed £11,673.”;
(f) for paragraph 17(5), there shall be substituted—“
(5) Except where sub-paragraph (3) applies, a school shall, subject to sub-paragraph (6), pay uniform grant in the case of an aided pupil as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £11,186 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) £67 where the relevant income does not exceed £10,414; and
(b) £35 where that income exceeds £10,414 but does not exceed £11,186.”; and
(g) in paragraph 19—
(i) in sub-paragraph (2)(a), for “£10,148” there shall be substituted “£10,427”, and
(ii) in sub-paragraph (2)(b), for “£9,969” there shall be substituted “£10,248”.
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In the list of choir schools in Schedule 3—
(a) after “Bristol Cathedral School” there shall be inserted “Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester”;
(b) after “Pilgrim’s School, Winchester College” there shall be inserted “Polwhele House School, Truro, Cornwall”; and
(c) there shall be omitted “St Edward’s College, Liverpool”.
Stephen Byers
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
25th June 1998