The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/2035
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 25th August 1996.

(2) These Regulations shall apply to a school year beginning on or after the date mentioned in paragraph (1).

(3) In these Regulations, a reference to the principal expenses Regulations is a reference to the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1995 .

Section 2 Amendments to the principal expenses Regulations

The principal expenses Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6 below.

Section 3 Amendments to the principal expenses Regulations

In regulation 3—

(a) for paragraph (3) there is substituted—

(3) The school shall pay uniform grant to the parents in the case of an assisted pupil—

(i) who is in his first year at a school as an assisted pupil, and

(ii) as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £11,056,

of an amount equal to so much of the parents' clothing expenditure as does not exceed—

(a) £169 where the relevant income does not exceed £9,707;

(b) £127 where that income exceeds £9,707 but does not exceed £10,159;

(c) £83 where that income exceeds £10,159 but does not exceed £10,593; and

(d) £43 where that income exceeds £10,595 but does not exceed £11,056.

(b) for paragraph (5), there is substituted—

(5) Except where paragraph (3) applies, a school shall pay uniform grant in the case of an assisted pupil as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,595 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) £63 where the relevant income does not exceed £9,873; and

(b) £33 where that income exceeds £9,873 but does not exceed £10,595.

Section 4 Amendments to the principal expenses Regulations

In regulation 5(2)—

(a) in paragraph (a), for “£9,585” there is substituted “£9,886”, and

(b) in paragraph (b), for “£9,406” there is substituted “£9,707”.

Section 5 Amendments to the principal expenses Regulations

In regulations 7(2) and 8(2) there is inserted in each case after “exceeds” the words “in the case of a pupil who has not attained the age of 8 years 3.2 kilometres, and in the case of a pupil who has attained that age”.

Section 6 Amendments to the principal expenses Regulations

In regulation 11(1), for paragraphs (e) and (f) there are substituted—

(e) modern languages at advanced level,

(f) theatre studies,

(g) zoology, or

(h) any other subject approved for the purposes of this regulation by the Secretary of State,