Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) Regulations 1985. They come into force on 15th August 1987, which (in connection with the amendment in regulation 3) is the date on which section 47 of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 (c. 61) (abolition of corporal punishment) comes into force (regulation 1).

The deduction for dependent children and relatives which is to be made from relevant income is increased from £900 to £950. The means tests for the remission of fees and meal charges, and for uniform grants and school travel grants are relaxed; the level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is set at £6,002 in place of the present £5,859 for boarders and £7,539 in place of the present £7,359 for day pupils (regulation 2).

References to the relevant income tax legislation in the Appendix to Schedule 1 to the 1985 Regulations, as amended by the 1986 Regulations, are updated, so as to discount deductions from total income of donations made under a payroll deduction scheme and reinvested dividend income under personal equity plans (regulation 2).

To the conditions to which the making of payments of grant in pursuance of the 1985 Regulations is subject there is added a condition that existing and potential pupils of the aided pupil scheme under those Regulations shall not be debarred from education thereunder on account of the application of section 47 of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 (regulation 3).