The Education (Assisted Places) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/2113
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

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

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

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

Section 2 Amendments to Parts II to V of the principal Regulations

Parts II to V of the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6 below.

Section 3 Amendments to Parts II to V of the principal Regulations

In regulation 5—

(a) for paragraph (1) there is substituted—

(1) it shall be a condition that the child either:

(a) shall have attained the age of five years no later than the commencement date; or

(b) if he does not satisfy the requirement in sub-paragraph (a), will, if selected for an assisted place—

(i) be educated with pupils the majority of whom will have attained the age of five years no later than the commencement date,

(ii) receive full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils who have attained that age, and

(iii) have attained that age before 1st September next following the commencement date.

(1A) Subject to paragraph (2), it shall also be a condition that the child shall have attained, before 1st September next following the commencement date, an age specified in the participation agreement as a normal age of entry to the school to which it is intended that the child should be admitted.

(1B) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (1A), “the commencement date” means the date on which the child’s first assisted year begins.

(b) in paragraph (2), for “Paragraph (1)(b)” there is substituted “Paragraph (1A)”.

Section 4 Amendments to Parts II to V of the principal Regulations

In paragraphs (3) and (5) of regulation 11, for “£1,165” in each place it appears there is substituted “£1,200”.

Section 5 Amendments to Parts II to V of the principal Regulations

In regulation 19—

(a) for paragraph (1), there is substituted—

(1) Subject to paragraph (4), in selecting pupils who will not be excepted pupils to take up assisted places, a school shall ensure that at least 60 per cent of the total number of assisted pupils at the school, excluding any excepted pupils, will be pupils from publicly maintained schools.

(b) after paragraph (1) there is inserted—

(1A) For the purposes of paragraph (1) “excepted pupils” means pupils (whether or not they are assisted pupils) who have not attained the age of seven years by 1st September next following the beginning of the school year in which they first attend the school.

Section 6 Amendments to Parts II to V of the principal Regulations

In regulation 21, for “fourteen days” there is substituted “one month”.

Section 7 Amendments to Schedule 2 of the principal Regulations

(1) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, for “£9,572” there is substituted “£9,873”.

(2) For the table in paragraph (2) of that Schedule there is substituted the following Table—

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