The Local Education Authority (Post-Compulsory Education Awards) Regulations 1999
These Regulations, which are made under section 518(1)(b) and (2) of the Education Act 1996 (as substituted by section 129 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998), confer power on a local education authority (LEA) to make a post-compulsory education award, that is to say a scholarship, exhibition, bursary or other award granted in respect of “an eligible person”, that is, a person over compulsory school age.