The Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 1827 (S.82)

EDUCATION, SCOTLAND

The Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

Made

8th July 1994

Laid before Parliament

11th July 1994

Coming into force

1st August 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 75A(9) and (10) and 75B of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after having consulted such bodies as appear to him to be appropriate and to be representative of participating schools in accordance with section 75A(11) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st August 1994.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1989(2).

(3) A regulation, schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph referred to in these Regulations by number means the regulation, schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph as numbered in the principal Regulations.

Amendment of principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 13(2) (scales of remission), for the sum of “£9,522” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,616”.

3.  In regulation 15(6) (school travel grants for day pupils and amounts thereof)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for the sum of “£9,535” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,629”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (b), for the sum of “£9,356” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,450”.

4.  In regulation 16(5) (school travel grants for boarding pupils and amounts thereof)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for the sum of “£9,535” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,629”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (b) for the sum of “£9,356” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,450”.

5.  In regulation 17 (clothing grants)—

(a) for paragraph (2), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(2) In an assisted pupil’s first assisted year, clothing grant shall be made in the case of such a pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,765 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed—

(a) £165, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,450;

(b) £123, where that income exceeds £9,450 but does not exceed £9,889;

(c) £81, where that income exceeds £9,889 but does not exceed £10,314;

(d) £41, where that income exceeds £10,314 but does not exceed £10,765.”; and

(b) for paragraph (3), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(3) In any subsequent school year in which clothing grant is made, it shall be made in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,314 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) £62, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,617;

(b) £30, where that income exceeds £9,617 but does not exceed £10,314.”.

6.  For Schedule 2 (scales of remission), there shall be substituted the following:—

Regulation 13

“SCHEDULE 2 SCALES OF REMISSION

(1)	(2)
Part of relevant income to which the specified percentage applies	Parental contribution percentage
That part (if any) which exceeds £9,450 but does not exceed £10,275	9%
That part (if any) which exceeds £10,275 but does not exceed £11,115	12%
That part (if any) which exceeds £11,115 but does not exceed £12,781	15%
That part (if any) which exceeds £12,781 but does not exceed £15,341	21%
That part (if any) which exceeds £15,341 but does not exceed £18,685	24%
That part (if any) which exceeds £18,685	33%”

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

8th July 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 to uprate the qualifying income levels for the remission of fees and charges and the making of grants under the assisted places scheme and in certain other respects.

The level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is increased from £9,522 to £9,616 with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where the relevant income exceeds that sum (regulations 2 and 6).

The qualifying income levels for school travel grants and clothing grants are also uprated (regulations 3 to 5).

(1)

1980 c. 44; sections 75A and 75B were inserted by section 5 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 58).

(2)

S.I. 1989/1133, amended by S.I. 1990/1346, 1991/1495, 1992/1589 and 1993/1659.