{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-regulations-1997/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-regulations-1997/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1968",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Calculation of remission",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), remission questions shall be determined by reference to relevant income in the preceding financial year.\n(2) Where one of the pupil’s parents has died after remission questions have been determined and the school is satisfied that the income of the surviving parent in the current financial year, when aggregated with that of the deceased parent, is likely to be less than their aggregated income in the preceding financial year, remission questions shall be redetermined by reference to the current financial year; and in such a case, paragraph (1) shall have effect as if—\n(a) the reference to the preceding financial year were a reference to the current financial year, and\n(b) the reference to the pupils' parents in regulation 10(2) included a reference to the deceased parent (notwithstanding paragraph (8) of that regulation).\n(3) If, in a case not falling within paragraph (2),—\n(a) the school are satisfied that the relevant income in the current financial year is, as a result of some event beyond the control of the pupils' parents, likely to be not more than 85 per cent of the relevant income in the preceding financial year, or\n(b) (i) the school, though not satisfied as aforesaid, are satisfied that the relevant income in the current financial year is likely to be so much less than the relevant income in the preceding financial year that financial hardship would result from remission questions being determined by reference to that year; and\n(ii) the Secretary of State agrees that this paragraph should operate in respect of the assisted pupil concerned,\nremission questions shall be determined as regards the school year in question and, unless and until the Secretary of State otherwise directs, any subsequent school year, by reference to the current financial year; and, in such a case, paragraph (1) shall have effect as if the reference therein to the preceding financial year were a reference to the current financial year.\n(4) Where it is not reasonably practicable for the parents to furnish, before the beginning of a school year, the requisite information as to relevant income for the appropriate financial year then, in relation to that school year, the school may determine remission questions provisionally, having regard to relevant income for earlier financial years, in such manner as the school thinks fit but—\n(a) no such provisional determination shall be more favourable to the parents than a determination computed by reference to an estimate furnished by the parents of relevant income for the appropriate financial year;\n(b) a provisional determination shall cease to have effect when the parents have furnished the requisite information for the appropriate financial year or the school are satisfied that it has become reasonably practicable for them to furnish it but they have not done so; and\n(c) within three months of the final determination of the remission questions any over-remission or under-remission of fees shall be adjusted by payments between the parents and the school.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4) the expression “appropriate financial year” means the preceding financial year except where paragraph (2) or (3) applies in which case it means the current financial year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1969",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1968/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:30.287661+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."
}