The Education (Assisted Places) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Made: 26th July 1990

Coming into force: 21st August 1990

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 17(6) and (7) and 35(4) of the Education Act 1980[^f00001] and after consulting, in accordance with section 17(8) of that Act, such bodies as appear to them to be appropriate and to be representative of schools eligible to participate in the assisted places scheme, the Secretary of State for Education and Science, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, hereby make the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:—

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 21st August 1990.

• (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 1989[^f00002].

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• (1) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations after the definition of “first assisted year” there shall be inserted the following definition—

• “grant-maintained school” means a grant-maintained school within the meaning of the Education Reform Act 1988[^f00003];

• (2) In paragraph (2) of regulation 19 of the principal Regulations after sub-paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

(aa) a grant-maintained school,

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In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (computation of income) —

• (a) at the end of sub-paragraph (k) the word “or” shall be deleted;

• (b) at the end of sub-paragraph (1) the word “or” shall be inserted;

• (c) after sub-paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph —

(m) in pursuance of section 54 of the Finance Act 1989[^f00004] (relief for medical insurance),

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In paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (scales of remission) for the sum “£7,584” there shall be substituted the sum “£8,200” and for the Table in paragraph 2 of that Schedule there shall be substituted the following Table—

Signed

John MacGregor — Secretary of State for Education and Science — 26th July 1990

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 26th July 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1989 in respect of a school year beginning on or after 21st August 1990.

Regulation 19 of the 1989 Regulations requires schools, in selecting pupils to take up assisted places in any school year, to select at least 60% of those pupils from “publicly maintained schools”. Grant-maintained schools are included in the definition of “publicly maintained schools” in regulation 19(2) of the 1989 Regulations (regulation 2).

References to the relevant income tax legislation in Schedule 1 to the 1989 Regulations are updated so as to discount deductions from total income allowed on payments for medical insurance made by those aged 60 or over (regulation 3).

The means test for the remission of fees is relaxed and the level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is set at £8,200 in place of the present £7,584 with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where relevant income exceeds that sum (regulation 4).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 20.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1989/1235.

[^f00003]: 1988 c. 40; see section 52(3).

[^f00004]: 1989 c. 26.