Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (the principal Regulations) to uprate the qualifying income levels for the remission of fees and charges and making of grants under the assisted places scheme and in certain other respects.

The level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is increased from £7,584 to £8,200, with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where the relevant income exceeds that sum (regulations 3(1) and 8). The qualifying income levels for school travel grants and clothing grants are uprated (regulations 4 to 6). The maximum parental contribution made by families with 4 or more assisted pupils is limited to the amounts payable at any given level of income by parents supporting 3 assisted pupils (regulation 3(2)).

References to the relevant income tax legislation in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations are updated so as to discount tax relief on premiums paid in respect of private medical insurance as deductions from total income (regulation 7).