Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) Regulations 1995 in respect of a school year beginning on or after 25th August 1996.
Regulation 3 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to, the 1995 Regulations are amended in order to add the Arts Educational School, Tring and the Elmhurst Ballet School, Camberley to the list of music and ballet schools participating in the aided pupil scheme (regulations 3 and 5).
Schedule 1 of the 1995 Regulations (which establishes the aided pupil scheme, sets out conditions of eligibility for aided places, and provides for remission of fees, payment of grant and administrative provisions) is amended as follows:
in paragraph 8, the reduction to be made in relevant income in respect of dependent relatives pursuant to sub-paragraphs (3) and (5) is increased to £1,200 (from £1,165);
in paragraphs 13 and 14, the means tests for the remission of fees is relaxed: the level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is set at £8,498 instead of £8,239 (in respect of boarding pupils), and £10,687 instead of £10,360 (in respect of day pupils), with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where relevant income exceeds those sums;
in paragraphs 17 and 18, the means tests for uniform and travel grants are relaxed and the amount of grant payable increased; and
in paragraph 24, theatre studies and modern languages at advanced level are added to the list of subjects in respect of which a school is required to remit its charges as regards the participation in field study courses of certain aided pupils (regulation 4).
Schedule 3 to the 1995 Regulations is amended in order to add St John’s College, Cardiff to the list of choir schools in respect of which the Secretary of State is empowered to pay grant pursuant to Part IV of the 1995 Regulations (regulation 6).