It shall be lawful for any child to be admitted to the Royal Hospital School regardless of sex and of whether the child has any seafaring family connection; and funds of Greenwich Hospital may be expended accordingly.

Subsection (1) above is without prejudice to the power to make regulations under section 20 of the [1865 c. 89.] Greenwich Hospital Act 1865 restricting the descriptions of children who may from time to time be admitted to the school.