# The Education (Grants) (Music and Ballet Schools) Regulations 1989, Paragraph 21: School travel grants — day pupils


(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of an aided pupil who is a day pupil at the school.
(2) Subject to and in accordance with paragraph 23, where an aided pupil’s walking distance between home and school exceeds three miles the school shall, in respect of each school year, pay a school travel grant to the parents of the pupil in relation to school travel expenditure incurred in respect of journeys between home and school in that year:
Provided that for the purposes hereof and of paragraph 23–
(a) where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys in excess of twenty-five miles each way by such transport as is mentioned in paragraph 18, account shall be taken of only so much of the expenses as bears the same proportion to the full amount thereof as twenty-five miles bears to the length in miles of the journey in question;
(b) where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys by public transport and they are in excess of what they would have been if advantage had been taken of available arrangements for season tickets or reduced or concessionary fares, the excess shall be disregarded.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1236/schedule/1/paragraph/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-music-and-ballet-schools-regulations-1989/schedule-1/paragraph-21
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