The Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) Regulations 1989

Restrictions on aid

10.—(1) The parents of an aided pupil shall not be entitled to any aid in respect of a period before the pupil took up his aided place or after he has left the school or, if he so remains at the school, after the end of the school year in which he attains the age of twenty years without prejudice, however, to the provisions of the proviso to paragraph 17(3) and of paragraph 23(2) and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, the parents shall not be entitled to remission of fees or charges payable in lieu of notice of the withdrawal of an aided pupil from the school.

(2) The parents of an aided pupil shall not be entitled to any remission of fees or charges which are required to be paid in pursuance of an order of a court.

(3) The parents of an aided pupil shall be under no obligation to apply for aid as respects a particular school year if they consider themselves not entitled thereto but if, as respects such a year, they do not–

(a) duly apply to the school for aid for that year, or

(b) subject to paragraph 11(4), duly furnish the school with the information and supporting documentary and other evidence requisite for determining aid questions,

they shall not be entitled to any aid for that year.

(4) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that, in the case of a particular pupil holding an aided place at any of the schools, his parents have furnished information required for determining aid questions which they know to be false in a material particular, or have recklessly furnished such information which is false in a material particular, he may direct that those parents shall not be entitled to any aid in the case of that pupil and, if he so directs, in the case of any other of their children who hold aided places at any of the schools, as respects a specified school year and, if he so directs, any subsequent school year:

• Provided that–

  (a)

  the Secretary of State shall not give a direction for the purposes hereof without affording the parents concerned an opportunity to make representations or without considering such representations;

  (b)

  the giving of a direction for the purposes hereof shall be without prejudice to its variation or revocation by a subsequent direction.

(5) This paragraph shall have effect notwithstanding anything in paragraph 6 or any other provision hereof.