# The Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

S.I. 1994/1827 · made 8 July 1994

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

Made under: Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (Section 75A, Section 75B)

## Introductory text

EDUCATION, SCOTLAND
Made 8th July 1994
Laid before Parliament 11th July 1994
Coming into force 1st August 1994
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 75A(9) and (10) and 75B of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after having consulted such bodies as appear to him to be appropriate and to be representative of participating schools in accordance with section 75A(11) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st August 1994.
(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1989.
(3) A regulation, schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph referred to in these Regulations by number means the regulation, schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph as numbered in the principal Regulations.

## 2 Amendment of principal Regulations

In regulation 13(2) (scales of remission), for the sum of “£9,522” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,616”.

## 3 Amendment of principal Regulations

In regulation 15(6) (school travel grants for day pupils and amounts thereof)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for the sum of “£9,535” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,629”; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (b), for the sum of “£9,356” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,450”.

## 4 Amendment of principal Regulations

In regulation 16(5) (school travel grants for boarding pupils and amounts thereof)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for the sum of “£9,535” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,629”; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (b) for the sum of “£9,356” there shall be substituted the sum of “£9,450”.

## 5 Amendment of principal Regulations

In regulation 17 (clothing grants)—
(a) for paragraph (2), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
“(2) In an assisted pupil’s first assisted year, clothing grant shall be made in the case of such a pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,765 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed—
(a) £165, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,450;
(b) £123, where that income exceeds £9,450 but does not exceed £9,889;
(c) £81, where that income exceeds £9,889 but does not exceed £10,314;
(d) £41, where that income exceeds £10,314 but does not exceed £10,765.”; and
(b) for paragraph (3), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
“(3) In any subsequent school year in which clothing grant is made, it shall be made in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,314 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) £62, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,617;
(b) £30, where that income exceeds £9,617 but does not exceed £10,314.”.

## 6 Amendment of principal Regulations

For Schedule 2 (scales of remission), there shall be substituted the following:—
“SCHEDULE 2
SCALES OF REMISSION
Regulation 13
(1)
(2)
Part of relevant income to which the specified percentage applies
Parental contribution percentage
That part (if any) which exceeds £9,450 but does not exceed £10,275
9%
That part (if any) which exceeds £10,275 but does not exceed £11,115
12%
That part (if any) which exceeds £11,115 but does not exceed £12,781
15%
That part (if any) which exceeds £12,781 but does not exceed £15,341
21%
That part (if any) which exceeds £15,341 but does not exceed £18,685
24%
That part (if any) which exceeds £18,685
33%
”

## Signature

James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
8th July 1994

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 to uprate the qualifying income levels for the remission of fees and charges and the 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 £9,522 to £9,616 with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where the relevant income exceeds that sum (regulations 2 and 6).
The qualifying income levels for school travel grants and clothing grants are also uprated (regulations 3 to 5).

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