Regulation 10 Amendment of Scheme for Aided Places set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

for sub-paragraph (3), 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 £10,048, and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed–

(a)

£154, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,821;

(b)

£115, where that income exceeds £8,821 but does not exceed £9,231;

(c)

£76, where that income exceeds £9,231 but does not exceed £9,628;

(d)

£38 where that income exceeds £9,628 but does not exceed £10,048:

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.”; and

for sub-paragraph (4), 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 £9,628, 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)

£57, where the relevant income does not exceed £8,987;

(b)

£29, where that income exceeds £8,987 but does not exceed £9,628.”.