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

School travel expenditure qualifying for grants

19.—(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of an aided pupil who is a boarder at the school (other than a weekly boarder).

(2) Subject to and in accordance with paragraph 23, the school shall, in respect of each school year, pay a school travel grant to the parents of an aided pupil thereat in relation to school travel expenditure reasonably incurred in relation to journeys actually made by the pupil in that year to or from his home or to visit a parent or guardian or other relative:

• Provided that grant shall not be payable in respect of more than 12 single journeys, either to or from the school, in any school year;

• And provided that for the purposes hereof and of paragraph 23–

  (a)

  where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys made by public transport and they are in excess of what they would have been if advantage had been taken of available arrangements for reduced or concessionary fares, the excess shall be disregarded;

  (b)

  where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys by air and they are in excess of what they would have been if advantage had been taken of available train, boat or hovercraft services and arrangements for reduced or concessionary fares, the excess shall be disregarded;

  (c)

  where a visit is to a place other than the pupil’s home and his expenses are in excess of what they would have been if the visit had been to his home, the excess shall be disregarded;

  (d)

  where a visit is to a place outside the British Islands, so much of the expenses as are in respect of a journey between a port, hoverport or airport within the British Islands and that place shall be disregarded.