
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st September 1998.
2 
After regulation 23B of the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 there shall be inserted–“
23C 

(1) This regulation applies to a pupil who holds (or has, at any time since the beginning of the first term of the 1997-98 school year, held) an assisted place at a school which is, or is treated as, a participating school.
(2) The Secretary of State may, in a case where he is satisfied that it is reasonable to do so in view of any particular circumstances relating to a pupil to whom this regulation applies, authorise another school which is, or is treated as, a participating school to provide for the pupil the assisted place which the school mentioned in paragraph (1) was authorised to provide.”.
Calum MacDonald
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
5th August 1998