The Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

• Citation: S.I. 1998/1583
• Sections: 4

Section 1

These Regulations—

(a) may be cited as the Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1998;

(b) shall come into force on 1st September 1998; and

(c) shall apply in relation to a school year beginning on or after that date.

Section 2

The Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) Regulations 1995 shall be amended as specified in regulations 3 and 4 below.

Section 3

In Schedule 1—

(a) in paragraph 8, in sub-paragraphs (3) and (5), for “£1,230” in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted “£1,265”,

(b) in paragraph 13(2), for “£8,723” there shall be substituted “£8,963”;

(c) for the table in paragraph 13(3), there shall be substituted the following table—

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(d) in paragraph 14—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2), for “£10,972” there shall be substituted “£11,275”, and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3), for “£10,823” there shall be substituted “£11,126”;

(e) for paragraph 17(3), there shall be substituted—

(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), the school shall pay uniform grant to the parents in the case of an aided pupil—

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

(ii) as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £11,673,

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

(a) £179 where the relevant income does not exceed £10,248;

(b) £134 where that income exceeds £10,248 but does not exceed £10,725;

(c) £87 where that income exceeds £10,725 but does not exceed £11,186; and

(d) £45 where that income exceeds £11,186 but does not exceed £11,673.

(f) for paragraph 17(5), there shall be substituted—

(5) Except where sub-paragraph (3) applies, a school shall, subject to sub-paragraph (6), pay uniform grant in the case of an aided pupil as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £11,186 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) £67 where the relevant income does not exceed £10,414; and

(b) £35 where that income exceeds £10,414 but does not exceed £11,186.

(g) in paragraph 19—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2)(a), for “£10,148” there shall be substituted “£10,427”, and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (2)(b), for “£9,969” there shall be substituted “£10,248”.

Section 4

In the list of choir schools in Schedule 3—

(a) after “Bristol Cathedral School” there shall be inserted “Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester”;

(b) after “Pilgrim’s School, Winchester College” there shall be inserted “Polwhele House School, Truro, Cornwall”; and

(c) there shall be omitted “St Edward’s College, Liverpool”.