The St. Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment Regulations 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1163 (S.117)

EDUCATION, SCOTLAND

The St. Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment Regulations 1988

Made

4th July 1988

Laid before Parliament

13th July 1988

Coming into force

3rd August 1988

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 73(f) and 74(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the St. Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 3rd August 1988.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations a reference to the principal Regulations is a reference to the St. Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Regulations 1986(2).

Regulation 14 of the principal Regulations

3.—(1) In paragraph (2) of regulation 14 of the principal Regulations for the sum of “£6,002” there shall be substituted the sum of “£6,248”.

(2) In paragraph (3) of that regulation for the Table there shall be substituted the following:

“(1)	(2)	(3)
Part of relevant income to which specified percentage applies	Only aided pupil	Each of two aided pupils
That part which exceeds £6,009 but does not exceed £7,700	10%	7.5%
That part (if any) which exceeds £7,700 but does not exceed £10,819	20%	15.0%
That part (if any) in excess of £10,819	10%	7.5%”

Regulation 15 of the principal Regulations

4.—(1) In paragraph (2) of regulation 15 of the principal Regulations for the sum of “£7,539” there shall be substituted the sum of “£7,849”.

(2) In paragraph (3) of that regulation for the sum of “£7,390” there shall be substituted the sum of “£7,700”.

Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations

5.  For regulation 18 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following regulation:—

“18.   Where the parents of an aided pupil who is a day pupil satisfy the school at any time during a school year, or the month preceding the beginning of a school year, that they are in receipt of income support, then the school shall remit the whole of any charges for meals—

(a) for the whole of that school year, where they are satisfied as aforesaid at or before the beginning thereof, or

(b) for the remainder of that school year where they are so satisfied in the course thereof, notwithstanding that the parents may cease to be in receipt of income support between the school being so satisfied and the end of the school year in question.”.

Regulation 19 of the principal Regulations

6.—(1) For paragraph (3) of regulation 19 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(3) Unless an aided pupil has been a pupil at the school before taking up an aided place, in a pupil’s first year at the school clothing grant shall be payable in the case of an aided pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £8,078 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed—

(a) £123, where the relevant income does not exceed £7,090;

(b) £93, where that income exceeds £7,090 but does not exceed £7,422;

(c) £61, where that income exceeds £7,422 but does not exceed £7,741;

(d) £31, where that income exceeds £7,741 but does not exceed £8,078. Provided that any clothing grant which would fall to be paid in pursuance of this paragraph in a pupil’s first aided year at the school may be paid during the two months immediately preceding that year.”.

(2) For paragraph (4) of that regulation there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(4) Except where paragraph (3) applies, clothing grant shall be payable in the case of an aided pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £7,741 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) £46, where the relevant income does not exceed £7,269;

(b) £23, where that income exceeds £7,269 but does not exceed £7,741.”.

Regulation 25 of the principal Regulations

7.  In paragraph (1) of regulation 25 of the principal Regulations—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for the sum of “£6,985” there shall be substituted the sum of “£7,271”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (b) for the sum of “£6,804” there shall be substituted the sum of “£7,090”.

Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

8.  In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (computation of income)—

(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (a) there shall be added the words “or provided for in section 26 of the Finance Act 1987(3)” or, so far as applicable in respect of a financial year ending after 5th April 1988, the corresponding provision contained in the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988(4)

(b) after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be inserted—

“(bb) in pursuance of section 31 of the Finance (No.2) Act 1987(5) or, so far as applicable in respect of a financial year ending after 5th April 1988, the corresponding provision contained in the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (relief for contributions to personal pension schemes);”

Michael B Forsyth

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

4th July 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Regulations 1986 (“the principal Regulations”) to uprate the qualifying income levels for the remission of fees and charges and making of grants and in certain other respects.

The level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is increased from £6,002 to £6,248 for boarders and from £7,539 to £7,849 for day pupils, with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where the relevant income exceeds these sums (regulations 3 and 4).

Remission of one half of charges for meals where parents' income does not exceed £5,917 is removed; the whole of such charges are to be remitted where parents are in receipt of income support (regulation 5).

The qualifying income levels for school travel grants and clothing grants are uprated (regulations 6 to 7).

References to the relevant income tax legislation in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations are updated, so as to discount deductions from total income of increased personal reliefs for those aged 80 or over and contributions to personal pension schemes (regulation 8).

(1)

1980 c. 44

(2)

S.I. 1986/1103, as amended by S.I. 1987/1146

(3)

1987 c. 16

(4)

1988 c. 1

(5)

1987 c. 51