The Education (Assisted Places) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998

Amendments to the Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1997

8.  After the new regulation 19A so inserted, there shall be inserted the following new regulation—

“Authorisation of replacement school

19B.— (1) This regulation applies where the Secretary of State decides to authorise a school pursuant to regulation 19 or 19A.

(2) Where this regulation applies, the Secretary of State shall give written notice of his decision to the replacement school; and that notice shall specify in respect of every transferred assisted pupil—

(a) his name, address and date of birth;

(b) the period for which he may be provided with an assisted place by the replacement school (which shall correspond to the remainder of the period for which his assisted place at the old school would have been available); and

(c) the maximum annual amount of fees which may be charged for him by the replacement school.

(3) A transferred assisted pupil shall cease to hold an assisted place at the replacement school at the end of the period specified in the notice.

(4) Before giving a notice in the case of any pupil, the Secretary of State shall consult the replacement school as to the level of fees he proposes to specify in the notice in relation to that pupil.

(5) Subject to regulation 6, the fees charged by a replacement school for a transferred assisted pupil shall not exceed the maximum annual amount specified in the notice.

(6) In this Regulation—

• “notice” (except in paragraph (2)) means a notice given by the Secretary of State to a replacement school under paragraph (2);

• “old school”, in relation to a transferred assisted pupil, means the school at which he was last provided with an assisted place before the Secretary of State made the decision referred to in paragraph (1);

• “replacement school”, in relation to a transferred assisted pupil, means the school authorised to provide an assisted place for that pupil under regulation 19 or (as the case may be) 19A;

• “transferred assisted pupil”, in relation to a replacement school, means a child who held an assisted place at an old school and for whom the replacement school is authorised to provide an assisted place under regulation 19 or (as the case may be) 19A.”.