The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Charges and remissions policies

131.—(1) Every Board of Governors of a grant-aided school to which this Article applies and every board shall determine and keep under review a policy with respect to the provision of, and the classes or descriptions of case in which it proposes to make charges for, any optional extra or board and lodging in respect of which charges are permitted by Article 130.

(2) No such Board of Governors or board shall make such a charge unless it has both—

(a) determined a policy under paragraph (1) with respect to the making of such charges (its “charging policy”); and

(b) determined a policy (its “remissions policy”)—

(i) setting out any circumstances in which it proposes to remit (in whole or in part) any charge which would otherwise be payable to it in accordance with its charging policy; and

(ii) in the case of such a policy determined by the Board of Governors, setting out also any circumstances in which the Board of Governors proposes to meet (in whole or in part) any charge payable to the board in accordance with the board’s charging policy for any optional extra or board and lodging provided for a registered pupil at the school.

(3) Any remissions policy determined by the Board of Governors of a school or by a board shall provide for complete remission of any charges otherwise payable in respect of board and lodging provided for a pupil on a residential trip if—

(a) the education provided on the trip is education in respect of which by virtue of Article 128 no charge may be made; and

(b) his parents are in receipt of income support or family credit in respect of any period wholly or partly comprised in the time spent on the trip.

(4) Any such Board of Governors or board shall keep under review any remissions policy determined by it under this Article.

(5) In this Article “optional extra” has the same meaning as in Article 130.