Part II Rights and duties of Parents and functions of Education Authorities in relation to Individual Pupils
Provision to assist pupils to take advantage of educational facilities
52 Recovery of cost of board and lodging.
—Where an education authority have provided a pupil with board and lodging, whether at a school, F1 hostel or elsewhere, the authority may, in their discretion, require the parent to pay to them in respect thereof such sums if any not exceeding the cost of such board and lodging as in the opinion of the authority he is able without financial hardship to pay:
Provided that—
(i)
where the board and lodging provided for any pupil were so provided under arrangements made by the authority for any of the reasons specified in section 50(1) of this Act, no sum shall be recoverable in respect thereof under this section; and
(ii)
where the board and lodging have been so provided for a young person F1 under section 13 of this Act, at F2an educational establishment, the authority, if satisfied that he is in a financial position to pay the whole or any part of a sum recoverable from his parent under this section, may recover that sum or that part thereof from the young person instead of from the parent.