Regulation 4 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 £10,765, and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed—

(a)

£165, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,450;

(b)

£123, where that income exceeds £9,450 but does not exceed £9,889;

(c)

£81, where that income exceeds £9,889 but does not exceed £10,314;

(d)

£41, where that income exceeds £10,314 but does not exceed £10,765:

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 £10,314, 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)

£62, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,617;

(b)

£30, where that income does not exceed £10,314.”.