The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1995

PART II UNIFORM GRANT

Payment of uniform grant

3.—(1) In this regulation “clothing expenditure” means expenditure which the school are satisfied—

(a) has been incurred by the pupil’s parents, or

(b) is about to be incurred by them but which they cannot, without financial hardship, incur in advance of the payment of grant,

on items of uniform and other clothing (including sports clothing) to be worn by an assisted pupil either at school or for the purposes of school activities.

(2) A school shall, in each school year, in the circumstances mentioned in paragraphs (3) and (5), pay a grant (“uniform grant”) to the parents of a pupil holding an assisted place at the school in respect of the parents' clothing expenditure.

(3) The school shall pay uniform grant to the parents in the case of an assisted pupil—

(i) who is in his first year at a school as an assisted pupil, and

(ii) as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,713,

of an amount equal to so much of the parents' clothing expenditure as does not exceed—

(a) £164, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,406;

(b) £123, where that income exceeds £9,406 but does not exceed £9,844;

(c) £80, where that income exceeds £9,844, but does not exceed £10,266;

(d) £41, where that income exceeds £10,266 but does not exceed £10,713.

(4) Any uniform grant which would be payable pursuant to paragraph (3) in respect of an assisted pupil’s first year at the school may be paid during the period commencing on 25th August 1995 and ending when that school year begins.

(5) Except where paragraph (3) applies, a school shall pay uniform grant in the case of an assisted pupil as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,266 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) £61, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,572;

(b) £32, where that income exceeds £9,572 but does not exceed £10,266.