The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made: 7th August 1991

Laid before Parliament: 8th August 1991

Coming into force: 30th August 1991

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 18 and 35(4) of the Education Act 1980[^f00001], 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:

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 30th August 1991.

• (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 Expenses Regulations is a reference to the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1989[^f00002].

2

For paragraphs (3) and (4) of regulation 3 of the principal Expenses Regulations (uniform grants) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs–

(3) In a pupil’s first assisted year, uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £9,737 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed– (a) £149, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,548; (b) £112, where that income exceeds £8,548 but does not exceed £8,945; (c) £73, where that income exceeds £8,945 but does not exceed £9,330; (d) £37, where that income exceeds £9,330 but does not exceed £9,737: Provided that any uniform grant which would fall to be paid in a pupil’s first assisted year may be paid during the period commencing on 30th August 1991 and ending when that year begins. (4) In any subsequent school year uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £9,330 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) £55, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,714; (b) £28, where that income exceeds £8,714 but does not exceed £9,330.

3

In regulation 4(5) of the principal Expenses Regulations (school travel grants) for the sums “£8,213” and “£8,034” there shall be substituted the sums “£8,727” and “£8,548” respectively.

Signed

Signed on authority of Secretary of State for Education and Science

Michael Fallon — Parliamentary Under Secretary for Education and Science — 7th August 1991

David Hunt — Sectretary of State for Wales — 7th August 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1989. They come into force on 30th August 1991 and apply to a school year beginning on or after that date.

The means tests for uniform grants and school travel grants are relaxed (regulations 2 and 3).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 20.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1989/1237; amended by S.I. 1990/1547.