The St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2022

Explanatory note

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The Regulations amend the St Mary’s Music School (Aided Places) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (“ the 2015 Regulations ”) and come into force on 10 February 2023.

The 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. Residency criteria for eligibility for an aided place are set out in Part 1 of that schedule.

Regulation 2(3)(a) amends paragraph 2(1) of Part 1 of schedule 1 of the 2015 Regulations to substitute new eligibility criteria relating to applications by nationals from an EEA state, Switzerland and the Republic of Ireland. Regulation 2(2) and (3)(b) and (c) make consequential amendments to regulation 2 and paragraph 2 of Part 1 of schedule 1 of the 2015 Regulations and insert related definitions.