# The Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1997, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Education (Grants) (Music, Ballet and Choir Schools) Regulations 1995. They come into force on 1st September 1997, and have effect as regards a school year beginning on or after that date.
Schedule 1 to 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 (by regulation 2) as follows:
(a) a technical amendment is made to the definition of “current financial year” in paragraph 7(2) of that Schedule;
(b) the reduction to be made (under paragraph 8) in relevant income in respect of dependent relatives pursuant to sub-paragraphs (3) and (5) is increased to £1,230 (from £1,200);
(c) paragraph 8(6)(c)(ii) is revoked in consequence of the amendment of Article 51 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (which formerly provided for awards in respect of attendance at a teacher training course);
(d) the means tests for the remission of fees (in paragraphs 13 and 14) is relaxed: the level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is set at £8,723 instead of £8,498 (in respect of boarding pupils), and £10,972 instead of £10,687 (in respect of day pupils), with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where relevant income exceeds those sums;
(e) paragraph 15 (which applies where the parents of an aided pupil have another child who holds an assisted place) is amended in consequence of the Education (Schools) Act 1997 (which provides for the phasing out of the assisted places scheme);
(f) a school will have to remit charges for meals consumed by an aided pupil (under paragraph 16) where his parents receive an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, as well as in cases where they receive income support;
(g) the means tests for uniform and travel grants (under paragraphs 17 and 19) are relaxed and the amount of grant payable is increased;
(h) a drafting improvement is made to paragraph 19(3); and
(i) in the Appendix, which specifies how a person’s total income is to be computed for the purposes of the scheme, paragraph 3(2)(h) is revoked in consequence of the repeal of section 617(5) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 by the Finance Act 1996.
In addition, an amendment is made to paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations in consequence of the enactment of the Education Act 1996 (which consolidates several earlier Education Acts) (regulation 3).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1967/note (the official version)
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