For paragraphs (3) and (4) of regulation 3 of the principal Expenses Regulations (uniform grants) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—
(3) In a pupil’s first assisted year, uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £9,151 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed—
(a) £140, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,034;
(b) £105, where that income exceeds £8,034 but does not exceed £8,407;
(c) £69, where that income exceeds £8,407 but does not exceed £8,769;
(d) £35, where that income exceeds £8,769 but does not exceed £9,151:
Provided that any uniform grant which would fall to be paid in a pupil’s first assisted year may be paid during the period commencing on 21st August 1990 and ending when that year begins.
(4) In any subsequent school year uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £8,769 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) £52, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,234;
(b) £26, where that income exceeds £8,234 but does not exceed £8,769.