518Payment of school fees and expenses; grant of scholarships etc
Regulations shall empower local education authorities, for the purpose of enabling persons to take advantage without hardship to themselves or their parents of any educational facilities available to them—
(a)to defray such expenses of children attending county, voluntary, grant-maintained or special schools as may be necessary to enable them to take part in any school activities, and
(b)to pay the whole or any part of the fees and expenses payable in respect of children attending schools at which fees are payable, and
(c)to grant scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries and other allowances in respect of persons over compulsory school age.