# The Education (Assisted Places) (Amendment) Regulations 1991, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1989 in respect of a school year beginning on or after 30th August 1991.
Paragraphs (3) and (4) of regulation 2 of the 1989 Regulations are amended to take account of the introduction of residence orders under the Children Act 1989 and the repeal of the Children Act 1975 by the 1989 Act (regulation 2).
The reductions to be made in relevant income in respect of dependent relatives pursuant to regulation 11(3) and (4) of the 1989 Regulations are increased so that the minimum reduction is now set at £1,065 in place of £1,000 (regulation 3).
Regulation 19 of the 1989 Regulations requires schools, in selecting pupils to take up assisted places in any school year, to select at least 60% of those pupils from publicly maintained schools. Paragraph (2) of the regulation – which provides for the interpretation of references in the regulation to pupils from publicly maintained schools – is amended so as to refer to pupils who, at the time of their selection (or consideration for selection) for a place (whether assisted or not) at the participating school, were attending 3and had attended for a continuous period including at least the whole of the previous school year any of the kinds of school listed in the paragraph (regulation 4).
References to the relevant income tax legislation in Schedule 1 to the 1989 Regulations are updated so as to discount deductions from total income allowed on donations to charity by individuals under the Gift Aid Scheme (regulation 5).
The means test for the remission of fees is relaxed; the level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is set at £8,714 in place of the present £8,200 with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where relevant income exceeds that sum. The provision made by paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Regulations for cases in which more than three children of the parents are assisted pupils is amended so as to provide for remission of the whole of the fees for the fourth and subsequent children and remission of the fees for the remaining children in accordance with the Table in that paragraph (regulation 6).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1767/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-amendment-regulations-1991/note
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