(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st September 2005.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to a school year beginning on or after that date.
(3) These Regulations apply only in relation to England.
Specified date: 1 September 2005: see para (1) above.
(1) The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1997 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2—
(a) In paragraph (2), substitute “13,116” for “£12,846”.
(b) In paragraph (3) for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—
“(a) “£81 where the relevant income does not exceed £12, 182”; and
(b) “£42 where that income exceeds £12,182, but does not exceed £13,116.”“
(3) In regulation 4—
(a) in paragraph (3), substitute “£12,195” for “£11,948”; and
(b) in paragraph (4) substitute—
(i) “£12,195” for “£11,948”; and
(ii) “£12,016” for “£11,769”.
Specified date: 1 September 2005: see reg 1(1).
Jacqui Smith
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Skills
20th July 2005
These Regulations further amend the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1997 (“the 1997 Regulations”) in respect of the school year beginning on or after 1st September 2005. The 1997 Regulations provide for the payment of grants as regards incidental expenses, and for the remission of incidental expenses, in respect of pupils eligible to continue to hold assisted places by virtue of section 2 of the Education (Schools) Act 1997, notwithstanding the abolition of the assisted places scheme by section 1 of that Act.
These Regulations amend the means test (set out in regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations) for determining eligibility to uniform grant and increase the amount of such grant payable in respect of clothing expenditure incurred in relation to the 2005/2006 and subsequent school years. £81 (instead of £79 as previously) is payable where the relevant income does not exceed £12,182 (instead of £11,935) and £42 (instead of £41) is payable where the relevant income exceeds that figure but does not exceed £13,116 (instead of £12,846).
These Regulations also amend the means test (set out in regulation 4 of the 1997 Regulations) for determining eligibility to travel grant and increase the amount of grant payable in respect of school travel expenditure in relation to the 2005/2006 and subsequent school years. Where the relevant income does not exceed £12,195 (instead of £11,948), any travel grant shall be of an amount equal to the school travel expenditure to which it relates. Where the relevant income exceeds that sum, travel grant will be of the amount, if any, by which the school travel expenditure to which it relates exceeds an amount (rounded down to the nearest multiple of £3) equal to one-twelfth of that part of the relevant income which exceeds £12,016 (instead of £11,769).
