{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1808",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 to do 2 main lots of things in the assisted places scheme.\nOne is to lower the age limit for children to participate in the scheme to children who have reached the age of 5 or who would reach the age of 5 by the end of February following the start of the school session when they first take up an assisted place (regulation 2(b)).\nThe other is to amend the amount deducted from income in calculating relevant income, to increase the amounts of relevant income which qualify for remission of fees and charges and for making travel and clothing grants, to increase the amounts of clothing grants and to take account of the lowering of the age for participation, in calculating travel grants (regulation 2(c) to (h)); details are as follows–\n(a) the deduction from income for dependent children and relatives which is to be made in calculating relevant income is increased from £1,165 to £1,200 (regulation 2(c));\n(b) in respect of the amounts of relevant income–\n(i) the amount at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is increased from £9,711 to £9,873 with corresponding increases in the amounts of relevant income for partial remission where the relevant income exceeds that sum (regulation 2(d) and (h));\n(ii) the amounts in respect of school travel grants and clothing grants are increased (regulation 2(e), (f)(ii), (g) and (h));\n(c) the taking of account of the lowering of the age in calculating travel grants is in regulation 2(e)(i); and\n(d) school clothing grants are increased by amounts varying from £1 to £3 (regulation 2(g)).\nRegulation 2(e)(ii) and (f)(i) substitute for imperial measurements metric measurements. Imperial measurements are used as supplementary indications of distance (regulation 2(a), (e)(i) and (ii) and (f)(i)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1808/note",
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  "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."
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