Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) Regulations 1985. They come into force on 1st August 1988 and apply to a school year beginning on or after that date.

A new condition of eligibility (that a child all of whose fees are required to be paid under a court order may not be selected for an aided place) is introduced; and entitlement to the remission of fees or charges required to be so paid is removed. The means tests for the remission of fees and for uniform and school travel grants are relaxed; the level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is set at £6,248 in place of the present £6,002 for boarders and £7,849 in place of the present £7,539 for day pupils. Remission of one half of charges for meals where parents' income does not exceed £5,917 is removed; the whole of such charges are to be remitted where parents are in receipt of income support (regulation 2).

References to the relevant income tax legislation in the Appendix to Schedule 1 to the 1985 Regulations, as amended by the 1986 and 1987 Regulations, are updated, so as to discount deductions from total income of increased personal reliefs for those aged 80 or over and contributions to personal pension schemes (regulation 2).