Travel grants (boarders)
18.—(1) This paragraph applies in relation to an aided pupil who is a boarder at the school.
(2) The school must pay a travel grant to the applicant in relation to school travel expenditure reasonably incurred in that school year for twelve single journeys made to or from the school in that year by the aided pupil to visit an applicant or other relative.
(3) If school travel expenditure is incurred for the following journeys, travel grant is not payable in respect of the excess—
(a)by public transport in excess of what would have been incurred had advantage been taken of available arrangements for reduced or concessionary fares;
(b)by air in excess of what would have been incurred had advantage been taken of available train, boat or hovercraft services and arrangements for reduced or concessionary fares;
(c)to a place other than the aided pupil’s home in excess of what would have been incurred if the visit had been to the aided pupil’s home; and
(d)to a place outside the British Islands, in which case, school travel expenditure between a port, hoverport or airport within the British Islands and that place is to be treated as an excess.