The St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment Regulations 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Regulations 1995 to amend the amount deducted from income in calculating relevant income, to increase the amounts of relevant income which qualify for remission of fees and charges and for making clothing and travel grants and to increase the amounts of clothing grants, in the aided places scheme. Details are as follows:–

• the deduction from income for dependent children and relatives which is to be made in calculating relevant income has been increased from £1,165 to £1,200 (regulation 3(a));

• the amount of relevant income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is increased from £8,357 to £8,498 for boarders and from £10,512 to £10,687 for day pupils, with corresponding increases in the amounts of relevant income for partial remission of fees where the relevant income exceeds those sums (regulation 3(b) and (c));

• the amounts of relevant income in respect of school clothing grants and travel grants are increased (regulation 3(d) and (g)); and

• school clothing grants are increased by amounts varying from £1 to £3 (regulation 3(d)).

Regulation 3(e) and (f) substitute metric measurements for imperial measurements with the latter used as supplementary indications of distance (regulation 2).