The St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment Regulations 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Regulations 1989 (the principal Regulations) to uprate the qualifying income levels for remission of fees and charges and making of grants under the aided places scheme, and in certain other respects.

The level of income at or below which fees are wholly remitted is increased from £8,077 to £8,196 for boarders and from £10,157 to £10,307 for day pupils, with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where the relevant income exceeds these sums (regulations 4 and 5). The qualifying income level for school transport grants and clothing grants are also uprated (regulations 6 and 7).

The deduction for dependent children and relatives which is to be made from “relevant income” has been increased from £1,100 to £1,150 (regulation 3).

Redundant wording relating to the grant of asylum in circumstances where this is no longer done has been removed (regulation 2).

The list of tax reliefs in the Appendix to Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations is updated so as to include a further relief introduced by the Finance (No.2) Act 1992 (regulation 8(1)). This list specifies reliefs which are not to be deducted in determining a person’s income for the purposes of the aided places scheme. Provision is also made for the maintenance payments taken into account in determin fiing a person’s income to include those made in accordance with a maintenance assessment under the Child Support Act 1991 (regulation 8(2)).