In subsection (3) of section 5 of the M1 Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (provision of clothing for physical training) for the words “The Minister may make regulations empowering a local education authority to provide” there shall be substituted the words “A local education authority may provide” and for the words “as may be prescribed” there shall be substituted the words “as may be determined by the authority”.

After subsection (6) of that section (under which the parent of a person provided with clothing under that section may be required to make a payment to the local education authority) there shall be inserted—