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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/st-marys-music-school-aided-places-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/151",
  "legislation_title": "The St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/st-marys-music-school-aided-places-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (“the 2015 Regulations”). These Regulations come into force on 1 August 2025.\nThe 2015 Regulations provide for the payment of allowances to St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh, to reimburse it for its expenditure in respect of fees and charges remitted and grants made in operating the aided places scheme described in schedule 1 of those Regulations. These Regulations amend remission levels in respect of boarders and day pupils who benefit from the aided places scheme which are set out in Parts 2 and 3 of schedule 1 of the 2015 Regulations.\nRegulation 2(2) of these Regulations amends the amount to be deducted from an applicant’s relevant income in respect of each dependent child or other relative for the purposes of calculation of the applicant’s relevant income.\nRegulation 2(3) of these Regulations amends the income threshold below which no parental contribution is payable in respect of fees for boarders and amends the table that sets out parental contribution levels for boarders by income band. Regulation 2(4) does the same in respect of fees for day pupils.\nRegulation 2(5) of these Regulations omits paragraph 15(1)(d) and (2) of schedule 1 of the 2015 Regulations. Tax credits ended on 5 April 2025 and have been replaced by universal credit.\nRegulation 2(6)(a) of these Regulations amends the parental income threshold below which an aided pupil is entitled to a clothing grant in the pupil’s first year at the school, and substitutes a new table setting out the maximum amount of clothing grant payable by income band. Regulation 2(6)(b) does the same for any subsequent year of an aided pupil at the school.\nRegulation 2(7) of these Regulations amends the parental income threshold below which an aided pupil is entitled to school travel grants.\nRegulation 2(8) of these Regulations makes an amendment consequential on changes made by the UK Parliament to tax legislation.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/151/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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