Miscellaneous
29Provision of clothing for physical training etc.
(1)
In subsection (3) of section 5 of the M1Education (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 ".
(2)
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—
“(6A)
Where a person who has attained the age of eighteen years (other than a registered pupil at a school) is provided with clothing under this section any reference in subsection (6) above to his parent shall be construed as a reference to that person.”