The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1997

PART IV School meals

Remission of charges for school meals

9.—(1) This regulation applies to an assisted pupil who is a day pupil where his parents satisfy the school at any time during—

(a) a school year, or

(b) the month preceding the beginning of a school year (including, in relation to the 1997—98 school year, any part of that period which falls before the commencement of these Regulations),

that they are in receipt of a relevant benefit.

(2) A school shall remit the whole of any charges which they would otherwise make for meals provided for a pupil to whom this regulation applies—

(a) for the whole of a school year, where they are satisfied as mentioned in paragraph (1) at or before the beginning of that year, or

(b) for the remainder of that school year, where they are satisfied as mentioned in paragraph (1) in the course of that year,

irrespective of whether the parents may subsequently cease to be in receipt of a relevant benefit.

(3) In this regulation, “relevant benefit” means—

(a) income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1), or

(b) an income-based jobseeker’s allowance under Part I of the Jobseekers Act 1995(2).

(1)

1992 c. 4. The provisions of Part VII of the 1992 Act relating to income support were amended by the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18) (section 41(4) and (5) and Schedules 2 and 3).

(2)

1995 c. 18.