1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Training Grants) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st September 1991.

2. The Education (Training Grants) Regulations 1990(2) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

3. In regulation 4 (grants by the Secretary of State) there shall be added after sub-paragraph (f) the following sub-paragraph-�

"(g)the training or further training of those employed as foreign language assistants being persons registered as such with the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges.".

4. In regulation 7 (amount of grant) there shall be inserted after the words "particular purpose" wherever they appear the words "or group of purposes".

5. In regulation 8(1) (rate of grant)-�

(a)for sub-paragraph (f) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph-�

"(f)training qualified teachers (whether or not they are employed as such) as educational psychologists;"; and

(b)there shall be added after sub-paragraph (i) the following sub-paragraph-�

"(j)training overseas trained teachers, as defined in paragraph 2 of Schedule 4A to the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1989(3), who are not qualified teachers as teachers;".

6. In regulation 9 (applications for payment of grant) in paragraph 4(b) the word "unqualified" shall be omitted.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Training Grants Regulations 1990 ("the 1990 Regulations").

Regulation 4 is amended so as to permit the Secretary of State to make grants to education authorities to facilitate and encourage the training or further training of those employed as foreign language assistants.

Regulation 7 is amended so as to allow the Secretary of State to notify an education authority of the maximum amount of expenditure to be incurred on training for a group of purposes rather than for each particular purpose individually.

The training as teachers of overseas trained teachers (who are not qualified teachers as defined in the 1990 Regulations) is added as one of the purposes in regulation 8(1) in respect of which grant at the higher rate may be paid. Regulation 8(1)(f) is substituted so as to clarify the circumstances in which grant at higher rate is to be paid for training educational psychologists. Grant at the higher rate is not to be paid on expenditure incurred in the training or the further training of those employed as educational psychologists but only on expenditure incurred in the training of qualified teachers, employed as such, as educational psychologists.

Regulation 9 is amended so as to relieve education authorities of the need to secure the submission to the Secretary of State of an unqualified auditor's certificate.