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

Selection of aided pupils

3.—(1) Aided places shall only be granted in the case of children who will be provided–

(a) at a school other than the Royal Ballet School, with education in music (otherwise than wholly or mainly in connection with singing in a choir);

(b) at the Royal Ballet School, with education in ballet dancing.

(2) An aided place shall not be granted by a school to a child who was a pupil thereat before 1st September 1981:

• Provided that this condition shall not apply in relation to the grant of an aided place by the Royal Ballet School or the Yehudi Menuhin School to a pupil in respect of whom fees were remitted before the said date in accordance with arrangements approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Royal Ballet School and Yehudi Menuhin School (Grants) Regulation 1973(1).

(3) An aided place to be first taken up in the Upper Division at the Royal Ballet School shall only be granted–

(a) to a child in the Lower Division about to transfer to the Upper Division thereof, or

(b) to a child in the Upper Division who transferred thereto from the Lower Division thereof on or after 1st September 1983.

(1)

1986 c. 50.