Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st August 1992.

(2) In these Regulations, "the principal Regulations"means the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1989((2)).

(3) A regulation, schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph referred to in these Regulations by number means the regulation, schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph so numbered in the principal Regulations.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2. In regulation 13(2) (scales of remission), for the sum of "£8,987"there shall be substituted the sum of "£9,384".

3. In regulation 15(6) (school travel grants for day pupils and amounts thereof)-

(a)in sub-paragraph (a), for the sum of "£9,000"there shall be substituted the sum of "£9,397"; and

(b)in sub-paragraph (b), for the sum of "£8,821"there shall be substituted the sum of "£9,218".

4. In regulation 16(5) (school travel grants for boarding pupils and amounts thereof)-

(a)in sub-paragraph (a), for the sum of "£9,000" there shall be substituted the sum of "£9,397"; and

(b)in sub-paragraph (b), for the sum of "£8,821"there shall be substituted the sum of "£9,218".

5. In regulation 17 (clothing grants)-

(a)for paragraph (2), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-

"(2) In an assisted pupil's first assisted year, clothing grant shall be made in the case of such a pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,500 and in such case the grant shall be of an amount equal to so much of the clothing expenditure as does not exceed-

(a)£161, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,218;

(b)£120, where that income exceeds £9,218 but does not exceed £9,646;

(c)£79, where that income exceeds £9,646 but does not exceed £10,061;

(d)£40, where that income exceeds £10,061 but does not exceed £10,500."; and

(b)for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-

"(3)In any subsequent school year in which clothing grant is made, it shall be made in the case of an assisted pupil as respects whom the relevant income does not exceed £10,061 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)£60, where the relevant income does not exceed £9,384;

(b)£30, where that income exceeds £9,384 but does not exceed £10,061.".

6. In Schedule 1, in paragraph 3 (computation of income)-

(a)after sub-paragraph (m), the word "or"shall be deleted; and

(b)after sub-paragraph (n), there shall be inserted the word "or"and the following sub-paragraph:-

"(o)in pursuance of sections 32 and 33 of the Finance Act 1991((3)) (relief for payments made in respect of qualifying courses of vocational training),".

7. For Schedule 2 (scales of remission), there shall be substituted the following:-

Regulation 13

"SCHEDULE 2SCALES OF REMISSION

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (the principal Regulations) to uprate the qualifying income levels for the remission of fees and charges and making of grants under the assisted places scheme and in certain other minor respects.

The level of income at or below which fees are to be wholly remitted is increased from £8,987 to £9,384, with corresponding increases in the extent of remission where the relevant income exceeds that sum (regulations 2 and 7). The qualifying income levels for school travel grants and clothing grants are uprated (regulations 3 to 5).

The list of tax reliefs in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations is updated so as to include a further relief introduced by the Finance Act 1991 (regulation 6). This list specifies reliefs which are not to be deducted in determining a person's income for the purposes of the Regulations.