Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 543

The Education (Grants) (Travellers and Displaced Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

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1995 No. 543

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education (Grants) (Travellers and Displaced Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 210 and 232(5) and (6) of the Education Reform Act 1988^[1], the Secretary of State for Education, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Grants) (Travellers and Displaced Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

Amendment of the Education (Grants) (Travellers and Displaced Persons) Regulations 1993
    2.    The Education (Grants) (Travellers and Displaced Persons) Regulations 1993^[2] shall be amended as follows.

    3.    In regulation 3(1) there shall be inserted before the words "The Secretary of State may pay" the words "Subject to paragraph (1A)".

    4.    In regulation 3 after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
"  (1A)  The Secretary of State may not pay grant to an authority or institution for provision in respect of persons referred to in regulation 4(c) in respect of which grant is payable to that authority or institution under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966^[3]." .

    5.    The proviso to regulation 3(3) shall be omitted.

    6.    For regulation 5 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
    "5.    Grants paid to authorities or institutions in England in respect of any expenditure which is approved as provided in regulation 3 shall be payable at the rate of 65 per cent. of the expenditure so approved and grants paid to authorities or institutions in Wales in respect of any expenditure which is approved as provided in regulation 3 shall be payable at the rate of 75 per cent. of the expenditure so approved." .

Transitional provision
    7.    The Education (Grants) (Travellers and Displaced Persons) Regulations 1993 shall continue to have effect as if these Regulations had not been made in respect of expenditure incurred on or before 31st March 1995.

Gillian Shephard

Secretary of State for Education

28th February 1995

John Redwood

Secretary of State for Wales

1st March 1995

These Regulations amend the Education (Grants) (Travellers and Displaced Persons) Regulations 1993.

The rate of grant in England is reduced from 75 per cent. to 65 per cent.. The rate of grant in Wales remains at 75 per cent..

Regulation 3 is also amended as a consequence of the extension of section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 to allow grants to be paid for the benefit of all ethnic minorities under that power, so as to provide that no provision for refugees and displaced persons in respect of which grant is paid under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 is eligible for grant under section 210 of the Education Reform Act 1988.

The Regulations also make transitional provision.

[1] 1988 c. 40; section 210 was amended by section 93(1) of, and paragraph 46 of Schedule 8 to, the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13). back

[2] S.I. 1993/569. back

[3] 1966 c. 42; section 11 substituted by section 1 of the Local Government (Amendment) Act 1993 (c. 27). back