Paragraph 20 School travel grants—boarding pupils

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch.1, para.10 amended by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment 2000 reg.2(a)
Sch.1, para.13 amended by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment 2000 reg.2(b)(i)
Sch.1, para.13, Table substituted by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment 2000 reg.2(b)(ii)
Sch.1, paras.l4,18 amended by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment 2000 reg.2(c)
Sch.1, para.24 amended by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) Amendment 2000 reg.2(e)
Sch.1, paras.10,13,14 amended by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) 1996 reg.3(a)(b) (c)
Sch.1, para.18(3)(4) substituted by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) 1996 reg.3(d)
Sch.1, paras.21(2),22(2), 24 amended by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) 1996 reg.3(e)(f) (9)
Sch.1 amended by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) 1997 reg.2
Sch.1 amended by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) 1998 reg.2
Sch.1, paras.10,13,14,18, 24 amended by St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) 1999 reg.2(a)-(e)

(1)

This paragraph shall apply in the case of an aided pupil who is a boarder (other than a weekly boarder) at the school.

(2)

The school shall, in respect of each school year, pay a school travel grant to the parents of an aided pupil thereat in relation to school travel expenditure reasonably incurred in respect of twelve single journeys either to or from the school actually made by the pupil in that year to visit a parent or guardian or other relative:

Provided that for the purposes hereof—

(a)

where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys by public transport and they are in excess of what they would have been if advantage had been taken of available arrangements for reduced or concessionary fares, the excess shall be disregarded;

(b)

where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys by air and they are in excess of what they would have been if advantage had been taken of available train, boat or hovercraft services and arrangements for reduced or concessionary fares, the excess shall be disregarded;

(c)

where a visit is to a place other than the pupil’s home and his expenses are in excess of what they would have been if the visit had been to his home, the excess shall be disregarded;

(d)

where a visit is to a place outside the British Islands, so much of the expenses as are in respect of a journey between a port, hoverport or airport within the British Islands and that place shall be disregarded.