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Paragraph 17 Uniform grant

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(1)

In this paragraph “clothing expenditure” means expenditure which the school are satisfied—

(a)

has been incurred by the pupil’s parents, or

(b)

is about to be incurred by them but which they cannot, without financial hardship, incur in advance of the payment of grant,

on items of uniform and other clothing (including sports clothing) to be worn by an aided pupil either at school or for the purposes of school activities.

(2)

A school shall, in each school year, in the circumstances mentioned in sub-paragraphs (3) and (5), pay a grant (“uniform grant”) to the parents of a pupil holding an aided place at the school in respect of the parents' clothing expenditure.

(3)

Subject to sub-paragraph (6), the school shall pay uniform grant to the parents in the case of an aided pupil—

(i)

who is in his first year at a school as an aided pupil, and

(ii)

as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,713,

of an amount equal to so much of the parents' clothing expenditure as does not exceed—

(a)

£164, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,406;

(b)

£123 where that income exceeds £9,406 but does not exceed £9,844;

(c)

£80, where that income exceeds £9,844, but does not exceed £10,266;

(d)

£41, where that income exceeds £10,266 but does not exceed £10,713.

(4)

Any uniform grant which would be payable pursuant to sub-paragraph (3) in respect of an aided pupil’s first year at the school may be paid during the period commencing on 25th August 1995 and ending when that school year begins.

(5)

Except where sub-paragraph (3) applies, a school shall, subject to sub-paragraph (6), pay uniform grant in the case of an aided pupil as regards whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,266 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure (disregarding expenditure in respect of which a previous grant has been paid) as does not exceed—

(a)

£61, where the relevant incomes does not exceed £9,572;

(b)

£32, where that income exceeds £9,572 but does not exceed £10,266.

(6)

Where a pupil has been a pupil at the school before taking up an aided place there, the school shall not pay any uniform grant incurred by the parents in respect of clothing expenditure incurred before the pupil took up the aided place.