Amendment of principal Regulations

5.  In regulation 17 (clothing grants)—

(a) for paragraph (2), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(2) In an assisted pupil’s first assisted year, clothing grant shall be made in the case of such a pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,765 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed—

(a) £165, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,450;

(b) £123, where that income exceeds £9,450 but does not exceed £9,889;

(c) £81, where that income exceeds £9,889 but does not exceed £10,314;

(d) £41, where that income exceeds £10,314 but does not exceed £10,765.”; and

(b) for paragraph (3), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(3) In any subsequent school year in which clothing grant is made, it shall be made in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,314 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) £62, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,617;

(b) £30, where that income exceeds £9,617 but does not exceed £10,314.”.