The St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/1494
• Sections: 12

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st August 1991.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Regulations 1989 .

(3) Except where the context otherwise requires, a regulation, schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph referred to by number in these Regulations means a regulation, schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph so numbered in the principal Regulations.

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1) after the definition of “allowance” there shall be inserted the following definition:–

“chorister” means a child who attends the school wholly or mainly in connection with singing in St Mary’s Cathedral Choir;

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 5 (conditions of payment), in paragraph (d) at the end there shall be added:–

; or

(iii) more choristers than the Secretary of State, after consultation with the school, may have specified.

Section 4 Amendment of Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (interpretation), in sub-paragraph (1) after the definition of “child” there shall be inserted the following definition:–

“chorister” means a child who attends the school wholly or mainly in connection with singing in St Mary’s Cathedral Choir;

Section 5 Amendment of Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

In paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 (conditions as to age), the present provisions shall become sub-paragraph (1) and the following sub-paragraph shall be added:

(2) In the case of a child who is, or if admitted to an aided place will be, a chorister, it shall be a condition that he has not attained the age of 13 years at the commencement of a school year in which he holds an aided place.

Section 6 Amendment of Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

In paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 (conditions as to education), at the end there shall be added the words “or shall be a chorister”.

Section 7 Amendment of Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

In paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 (references to income)–

(a) in sub-paragraph (3), for the sum of “£1,000” there shall be substituted the sum of “£1,100”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (4), for the sum of “£1,000” (in both places where it appears) there shall be substituted the sum of “£1,100”.

Section 8 Amendment of Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

In paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 (remission of fees boarding pupils)–

(a) in sub-paragraph (2), for the sum of “£7,059” there shall be substituted the sum of “£7,736”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (3), for the Table there shall be substituted the following Table:–

TABLE

Section 9 Amendment of Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

In paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 (remission of fees – day pupils)–

(a) in sub-paragraph (2), for the sum of “£8,871” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,726”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (3), for the sum of “£8,722” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,577”.

Section 10 Amendment of Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

In paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 (clothing grants)–

(a) for sub-paragraph (3), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:–

(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 clothing grant shall be payable in the case of an aided pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,048, and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed–

(a) £154, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,821;

(b) £115, where that income exceeds £8,821 but does not exceed £9,231;

(c) £76, where that income exceeds £9,231 but does not exceed £9,628;

(d) £38 where that income exceeds £9,628 but does not exceed £10,048:

Provided that any clothing grant which would fall to be paid in pursuance of this sub-paragraph in a pupil’s first aided year at the school may be paid during the two months immediately preceding that year.

(b) for sub-paragraph (4), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:–

(4) Except where sub-paragraph (3) applies, clothing grant shall be payable in the case of an aided pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £9,628, 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) £57, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,987;

(b) £29, where that income exceeds £8,987 but does not exceed £9,628.

Section 11 Amendment of Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

In sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 (amount of school travel grants)–

(a) in paragraph (a), for the sum of “£8,213” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,000”; and

(b) in paragraph (b), for the sum of “£8,034” there shall be substituted the sum of “£8,821”.

Section 12 Amendment of Appendix to Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

In paragraph 3 of the Appendix to the Scheme for Aided Places at St Mary’s Music School set out in Schedule 1 (computation of income)–

(a) after sub-paragraph (l), the word “or” shall be deleted; and

(b) after sub-paragraph (m), there shall be inserted the word “or” and the following sub-paragraph:–

(n) in pursuance of section 25 of the Finance Act 1990 (donations to charity by individuals),