# The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) (Amendment) Regulations 2003, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
These Regulations amend The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 2001 and should be read in conjunction with The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) (Amendment) Regulations 2002.
The second part of regulation 4 reflects a change in name, as from 1st April 2003, of “invalid care allowance” to “carer’s allowance”.
Regulation 5, together with the first part of regulation 4, set out how financial eligibility for payment of an Education Maintenance Allowance is now to be arrived at, where there are siblings in the same household as the applicant.
Regulations 6 and 8, read together, exclude from eligibility for an allowance, those students whose final school year was 1998-1999 and include those students whose final school year will be 2002-2003 and they reflect the fact that the final school year is now the same for all areas taking part in the pilots.
Regulation 7 allows Local Education Authorities to adjust the amount paid by way of weekly allowance, depending on the amount of assessed income. No such adjustments will be made, however, where a student receives a weekly allowance of only £5 per week.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/553/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-maintenance-allowance-pilot-areas-amendment-regulations-2003/note
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