Regulation 5 Paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

For sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (clothing grants), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:–

“(3)

Unless an aided pupil has been a pupil at the school before taking up an aided place, in a pupil’s first year at the school clothing grant shall be payable in the case of an aided pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £9,151 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed–

(a)

£140, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,034;

(b)

£105, where that income exceeds £8,034 but does not exceed £8,407;

(c)

£69, where that income exceeds £8,407 but does not exceed £8,769;

(d)

£35, where that income exceeds £8,769 but does not exceed £9,151:

Provided that any clothing grant which would fall to be paid in pursuance of this sub-paragraph in a pupil’s first aided year at the school may be paid during the two months immediately preceding that year.”.

For sub-paragraph (4) of that paragraph there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:–

“(4)

Except where sub-paragraph (3) applies, clothing grant shall be payable in the case of an aided pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £8,769 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)

£52, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,234;

(b)

£26, where that income exceeds £8,234 but does not exceed £8,769.”.