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

PART III remission of fees and charges

Fees and charges qualifying for remission

12.  Paragraph 13 or, as the case may be, paragraph 14, shall apply to the remission of fees and other charges payable by the parents of an aided pupil being fees and charges (other than such as are mentioned in paragraph 16) which are designated for the purposes hereof by the school with the approval of the Secretary of State for the purposes of paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 2; and all such fees and charges are hereinafter referred to as designated fees.

Remission of fees — boarding pupils

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

(2) Where the relevant income for the appropriate financial year does not exceed £6,529 the designated fees shall be wholly remitted.

(3) In any other case the designated fees for a school in respect of each aided pupil shall be remitted to the extent (if any) necessary to secure that the parents' residual liability for that pupil’s designated fees is of an amount (rounded down to the nearest multiple of £3) equal to the aggregate of the specified percentages of those parts of the relevant income referred to in column (1) of the following Table, being the percentages–

(a) specified opposite those parts in column (2), where only one child of the parents holds an aided place at any of the schools;

(b) so specified in column (3) where two children of the parents hold such aided places;

(c) specified for the purposes hereof by the Secretary of State, where more than two children of the parents hold such aided places.

Table

(1)	(2)	(3)
Part of the relevant income to which specified percentage applies	Only aided pupil	Each of two aided pupils
That part which exceeds £6,380 but does not exceed £8,054	10%	7.5%
That part (if any) which exceeds £8,054 but does not exceed £11,317	20%	15%
That part (if any) which exceeds £11,317	10%	7.5%

Remission of fees — day pupils

14.—(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of an aided pupil who is a day pupil at the school.

(2) Where the relevant income for the appropriate financial year does not exceed £8,203 the designated fees shall be wholly remitted.

(3) In any other case the designated fees in respect of each aided pupil shall be remitted to the extent (if any) necessary to secure that the parents' residual liability for that pupil’s designated fees is of an amount (rounded down to the nearest multiple of £3) equal to the percentage mentioned below of that part of the relevant income which exceeds £8,054 namely–

(a) 10% of that part, where only one child of the parents holds an aided place at any of the schools;

(b) 7.5% of that part, where two children of the parents hold such aided places;

(c) such percentage of that part as is specified for the purposes hereof by the Secretary of State, where more than two children of the parents hold such places.

Allowances to be made for assisted pupils

15.  Where the parents of an aided pupil also have a child who is the holder of an assisted place at an independent school by virtue of a scheme operated by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 17 of the Education Act 1980(1), the parents' residual liability for designated fees shall be calculated pursuant to paragraph 13 or 14 above (as the case may be) as if their child who is an assisted pupil under that scheme held an aided place for the purposes of that paragraph.

Remission of charges for meals — day pupils

16.  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 under Part II of the Social Security Act 1986(2) the school shall remit the whole of any charges which they would otherwise make for meals provided for that pupil–

(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 the 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.

(1)

1980 c. 20.

(2)

1986 c. 50.