Regulation 17 Clothing grants

(1)

In this regulation “clothing expenditure” means expenditure on items of uniform and other clothing (including sports clothing) required to be worn at school by an assisted pupil which the school is satisfied—

(a)

has been incurred by the parents of that pupil, or

(b)

is about to be incurred by them but which they cannot, without financial hardship, incur in advance of the making of grant under this regulation.

(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 £10,873 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed—

(a)

£166, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,545;

(b)

£124, where that income exceeds £9,545 but does not exceed £9,988;

(c)

£81, where that income exceeds £9,988 but does not exceed £10,417;

(d)

£41, where that income exceeds £10,417 but does not exceed £10,873.

(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 £10,417 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 £9,711;

(b)

£30, where that income exceeds £9,711 but does not exceed £10,417.