Regulation 6 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 £10,658, and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed–

(a)

£163, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,356;

(b)

£122, where that income exceeds £9,356 but does not exceed £9,791;

(c)

£80, where that income exceeds £9,791 but does not exceed £10,212;

(d)

£41, where that income exceeds £10,212 but does not exceed £10,658:

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.”;