Regulation 3 Uniform grants

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 3(3)(4) substituted by Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) 1991
reg.3(3)(4) substituted by Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) 1994 reg.2
reg.3(3)(4) substituted by Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) 1992 reg.2
reg.3(3)(4) substituted by Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) 1993 reg.2
reg. 3 amended by Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) 1990

(1)

In this Regulation clothing expenditure means expenditure on items of uniform and other clothing (including sports clothing) to be worn at school by an assisted pupil which the school are satisfied –

(a)

has been incurred by the pupil’s parents, or

(b)

is about to be incurred by them but which they cannot, without financial hardship, incur in advance of the payment of grant.

(2)

Subject to and in accordance with this Regulation and Regulation 6, a school shall, in the cases mentioned in paragraphs (3) and (4), pay a uniform grant to the parents of a pupil holding an assisted place thereat in respect of their clothing expenditure.

(3)

In a pupil’s first assisted year, uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £8,450 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed –

(a)

£129, where the relevant income does not exceed £7,416;

(b)

£97, where that income exceeds £7,416 but does not exceed £7,763;

(c)

£64, where that income exceeds £7,763 but does not exceed £8,097;

(d)

£32, where that income exceeds £8,097 but does not exceed £8,450:

Provided that any uniform grant which would fall to be paid in a pupil’s first assisted year may be paid during the period commencing on 12th August 1989 and ending when that year begins.

(4)

In any subsequent school year uniform grant shall be payable in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £8,097 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure (disregarding expenditure in respect of which a previous grant has been paid) as does not exceed –

(a)

£48, where the relevant income does not exceed £7,603;

(b)

£24, where that income exceeds £7,603 but does not exceed £8,097.