The Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) Regulations 1995. They come into force on 1st September 1999 and have effect in relation to a school year beginning on or after that date.

Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations (which establishes the aided pupil scheme, sets out conditions of eligibility for aided places, and provides for remission of fees, payment of grant and administrative provisions) is amended (by regulation 2) as follows–

(a) the reduction to be made (under paragraph 8) in relevant income in respect of dependent relatives pursuant to sub-paragraphs (3) and (5) is increased to £1,300 (from £1,265);

(b) the means tests for the remission of fees (in paragraphs 13 and 14) is relaxed: the level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is set at £9,183 instead of £8,963 (in respect of boarding pupils), and £11,553 instead of £11,275 (in respect of day pupils), with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where relevant income exceeds those sums;

(c) a redrafted paragraph 17 of the 1995 Regulations is substituted, but the only substantive change is to relax the means tests for uniform grant and increase the amount of grant payable; and

(d) the means test for travel grant (under paragraph 19) is relaxed and the amount of grant payable is increased.