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The Education (Remission of Charges Relating to Residential Trips) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

W.S.I. 2013/2731 · Made 23 October 2013

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Education, Wales

Made 23 October 2013

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 25 October 2013

Coming into force 15 November 2013

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 457(4)(b)(ai) and 569 of the Education Act 1996f1, and now vested in themf2, make the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1996 c.56. Sub-section (4)(b)(ai) of section 457 was inserted by the Welfare Reform Act 2012, section 31, Schedule 2, paragraphs 37, 38. It was brought into force on the 29 April 2013: see S.I. 2013/983, article 3(1)(b)(i). By virtue of section 569 of the Education Act 1996, “prescribed” in section 457 means prescribed by the Secretary of State in regulations.

f2

The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and then to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32).

Contents

  1. 1Title, commencement, application and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment
  3. 3Amendment
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Title, commencement, application and interpretation

(1)

The title of these Regulations is the Education (Remission of Charges Relating to Residential Trips) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and they come into force on 15 November 2013.

(2)

These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

(3)

In these Regulations—

  • “the 2003 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2003”) means the Education (Remission of Charges Relating to Residential Trips) (Wales) Regulations 2003f1.

2Amendment

In regulation 2 of the 2003 Regulations (interpretation) in the appropriate place in the alphabetical order, insert—

  • ““universal credit” (“credyd cynhwysol”) means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012f1.”.

3Amendment

After regulation 5 of the 2003 Regulations insert—

“Prescribed circumstances: receipt of universal credit

6.

The circumstances that are prescribed for the purposes of section 457(4)(b)(ai) of the 1996 Actf1 are that the pupil’s parent is in receipt of universal credit on or after 15 November 2013.”

Signature

Huw Lewis

Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers

23 October 2013

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Remission of Charges Relating to Residential Trips) (Wales) Regulations 2003 to add an additional benefit or allowance which entitles the child of a claimant to claim free board and lodging on a residential trip.

The receipt of Universal Credit on or after 15 November 2013 is prescribed for the purposes of section 457 of the Education Act 1996.