Paragraph 1 Total number of aided places
(1)
This paragraph shall apply if the Secretary of State, for the purposes hereof, specifies the total number of pupils who may hold aided places at a particular school and different total numbers may be specified for boarding pupils and for day pupils; and in this paragraph “the specified number” means a number for the time being so specified by him.
(2)
If and so long as the total number of pupils holding aided places at the school or, as the case may be, the total number of boarding pupils or of day pupils holding such places, is not less than the specified number then no further aided places or, as the case may require, no further boarding or day aided places, shall be granted at the school.