Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision for the payment of allowances by local education authorities listed in Part I of Schedule 1 to or in respect of students over compulsory school age.

Regulations 4 to 6 provide for the conditions which have to be satisfied if allowances are to be paid. Regulation 4 provides for conditions as to residence or, where the allowance is to be paid by Leeds City Council, attendance at a school in Leeds. Regulation 5 provides for conditions as to income and regulation 6 provides for other conditions. Amongst the other conditions is a condition relating to signature of an education maintenance allowance learning agreement (an expression defined in regulation 7) by a parent.

Regulation 8, 9 and 10 prescribe further circumstances in which each of the allowances, that is the weekly allowance, the termly bonus and the achievement bonus, can be paid.