The Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

3.  In the principal Regulations after Part IIA (grant to the Royal Ballet School for the provision of Ballet Dancing in the Upper Division) there shall be inserted the following Part—

“Part IIB GRANT TO CHOIR SCHOOLS AND THE CHOIR SCHOOLS' ASSOCIATION BURSARY TRUST

Grant in respect of choristers

8D.— (1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, the Secretary of State may, in respect of each school year, pay grant to—

(a) the choir schools at Ripon, Salisbury and Westminster Cathedral (“the specified choir schools”); and

(b) the Choir Schools' Association Bursary Trust (“the trust”)

in respect of their expenditure, incurred or to be incurred, in connection with the provision of education to pupils to whom paragraph (2) applies.

(2) This paragraph shall apply to pupils who—

(a) are admitted as choristers to one of the specified choir schools or one of the choir schools listed in Schedule 2A on or after 1st September 1991;

(b) are aged between 8 and 13;

(c) are considered by the specified choir school to which they are admitted or by the trust (as the case may be) to be capable of benefiting from the education provided.

Conditions of residence applicable to grant

8E.— (1) Payment of such grant shall only be made in respect of pupils who meet the conditions of residence set out in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, as modified by paragraph (2) below.

(2) For the purposes of this Regulation, sub-paragraph (1)(a) of and the references to “the relevant date” in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 shall be read as referring to1st January in the calendar year in which the school year, in respect of which grant is to be paid under this Part, begins, and the reference in sub-paragraph (1)(b) to “the relevant two year period” as referring to the period of two years preceding that date.

Amount of grant

8F.   The amount of grant payable by the Secretary of State under this Part in respect of any school year shall, subject to paragraph (2), be such amount as he may determine after consultation with the specified choir schools and the trust.

Accounts

8G.   The specified choir schools and the trust shall keep such records and accounts and furnish to the Secretary of State such information, documents, returns and accounts as the Secretary of State may from time to time require.”