4.—(1) Regulation 2 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (4), for “Any uniform grant” there shall be substituted “Subject to paragraph (4B), any uniform grant”.

(3) After paragraph (4), there shall be inserted—

“(4A) This paragraph applies to an assisted pupil where the whole or any part of any uniform grant payable to his parents pursuant to paragraph (3) was not so paid before the end of the 1997–98 school year by reason only of—

(a) an error on the part of the school or the parents, or

(b) a delay in calculating the relevant income in relation to that year.

(4B) Where, at any time during the 1998–99 school year, the school are satisfied that paragraph (4A) applies to an assisted pupil, they shall, before the end of that year (but no later), pay to his parents the whole or any remaining part of the uniform grant which, apart from paragraph (4), would have been payable to them pursuant to paragraph (3).”.

(4) In paragraph (5), for “£10,881” there shall be substituted “£11,186”.

(5) For paragraph (6)(a) and (b) there shall be substituted—

“(a) £67 where the relevant income does not exceed £10,414; and

(b) £35 where that income exceeds £10,414 but does not exceed £11,186.”.