The Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1997

Regulation 16

SCHEDULE 2 SCALES OF REMISSION

1.  Where the relevant income for the appropriate financial year does not exceed £10,135 the fees shall be wholly remitted.

2.—(1) In any other case, but subject to paragraph 4 and to sub-paragraph (2) below, the fees for a school year in respect of each assisted pupil shall be remitted to the extent (if any) necessary to secure that the parents' residual liability for that pupil’s fees corresponds to an amount (rounded down to the nearest multiple of £3) equal to the aggregate of the specified percentages of those parts of the relevant income referred to in column (1) of the following table, being the percentages—

(a) specified opposite the parts of the relevant income in column (2), where only one child of the parents is an assisted pupil, or

(b) so specified in column (3) or (4) where two or three children of the parents (as the case may be) are assisted pupils (whether at the same or different schools).

TABLE

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Part of relevant income to which specified percentage applies	Only assisted pupil	Each of two assisted pupils	Each of three assisted pupils
	(%)	(%)	(%)
That part (if any) which exceeds £9,969 but  does not exceed £10,840	9	6.75	5.25
That part (if any) which exceeds £10,840 but does not exceed £11,725	12	9	7
That part (if any) which exceeds £11,725 but does not exceed £13,481	15	11.25	8.75
That part (if any) which exceeds £13,481 but does not exceed £16,186	21	15.75	12.25
That part (if any) which exceeds £16,186 but does not exceed £19,712	24	18	14
That part (if any) which exceeds £19,712	33	24.75	19.25

(2) Where more than three children of the parents are assisted pupils, the fees for a school year in respect of the fourth and each subsequent child to be selected for an assisted place shall be wholly remitted and those in respect of each of the remaining children shall be remitted in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above.

3.  Where the parents of an assisted pupil also have a child who is an aided pupil by virtue of a grant paid pursuant to Regulations from time to time in force under section 485 of the Education Act 1996(1) to a school of music or ballet, the parents' residual liability for the fees of the assisted pupil shall be calculated pursuant to paragraph 2 above as if their child who is an aided pupil were an assisted pupil for the purposes of that paragraph.

4.—(1) Where the school or any registered charity has awarded a bursary or scholarship in respect of an assisted pupil, the amount of any such bursary or scholarship shall be ignored for the purpose of calculating `the parents' residual liability.

(2) However that residual liability shall be reduced or extinguished by that amount.

(3) Where the amount of the bursary or scholarship exceeds the parents' residual liability, the excess shall be deducted from the relevant reimbursement claim in respect of the assisted pupil.

(1)

1996 c. 56. The Regulations applicable as at the date of these Regulations are the Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2018), as amended by S.I. 1996/2036 and (with effect from 1st September 1997) S.I. 1997/1967.