{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-incidental-expenses-regulations-1997/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-incidental-expenses-regulations-1997/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1969",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-incidental-expenses-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Travel grant—day pupils",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in the case of an assisted pupil who is a day pupil at a school.\n(2) Where the school is not within walking distance of the pupil’s home, the school shall, in respect of each school year and subject to paragraph (3), pay travel grant to the parents of the pupil in relation to school travel expenditure reasonably incurred in respect of journeys made by the pupil between home and school in that year.\n(3) In calculating the school travel expenditure,\n(a) where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys in excess of 40 kilometres each way by such transport as is mentioned in regulation 3 the school shall take into account only the following proportion of the expenses, that is the proportion that 40 kilometres bears to the length in kilometres of the journey in question; and\n(b) where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys by public transport and exceed the expenses that would have been incurred if advantage had been taken of available arrangements for season tickets or reduced or concessionary fares, the excess shall be disregarded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1969/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:29.760391+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}