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19.—(1) This paragraph applies in relation to an aided pupil who is a day pupil at the school.
(2) If the walking distance between an aided pupil’s home and the school exceeds 4.8 kilometres, the school must pay a travel grant to the applicant for school travel expenditure reasonably incurred in that school year for journeys between the aided pupil’s home and the school in that year.
(3) If school travel expenditure is incurred for such a journey by public transport in excess of what would have been incurred had advantage been taken of available arrangements for season tickets or reduced or concessionary fares, travel grant is not payable in respect of the excess.
(4) If school travel expenditure is incurred for such a return journey in excess of 80.4 kilometres by any of the forms of transport mentioned in paragraph 17, a travel grant must only be paid for the proportion of the expenditure equivalent to the proportion of that journey that is constituted by 80.4 kilometres.
(5) Such a return journey is to be measured with reference to the shortest available route between the aided pupil’s home and the school.
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