The St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Regulations 1989

Clothing grants

18.—(1) In this paragraph “clothing expenditure” means expenditure on items of clothing (including sports clothing) to be worn by an aided pupil either at school or for the purposes of school activities which the school are satisfied (a) has been incurred by the pupil’s parents, or

(b) is about to be incurred by them but which they cannot, without financial hardship, incur in advance of the payment of grant.

(2) Subject to and in accordance with this paragraph, the school shall, in the cases mentioned in sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), pay a clothing grant to the parents of a pupil holding an aided place thereat in respect of their clothing expenditure.

(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 £8,450 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed—

(a) £129, where the relevant income does not exceed £7,416;

(b) £97, where that income exceeds £7,416 but does not exceed £7,763;

(c) £64, where that income exceeds £7,763 but does not exceed £8,097;

(d) £32, where that income exceeds £8,097 but does not exceed £8,450:

• Provided that any clothing grant which would fall to be paid in pursuance of this sub-paragraph in a pupil’s first aided year at the school may be paid during the two months immediately preceding that year.

(4) Except where sub-paragraph (3) applies, clothing grant shall be payable in the case of an aided pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £8,097 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) £48, where the relevant income does not exceed £7,603,

(b) £24, where that income exceeds £7,603 but does not exceed £8,097.