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Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (Note)

Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

2003 No. 459

EDUCATION

Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made 22nd October 2003

Coming into operation 1st December 2003

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART I

GENERAL

1. - Citation and commencement.

2. - Interpretation.

3. - Calculation of income.

4. - Termination of marriage.

PART II

AWARDS

5. - Specified persons.

6. - Ordinarily resident.

7. - Previous attendance at a course.

8. - Specified educational facilities.

9. - Terms and conditions.

PART III

AMOUNT OF AWARDS

10. - Payments by boards.

11. - Calculation of maintenance grant.

12. - Assessment of requirements and resources.

13. - Sandwich courses.

14. - Courses of teacher training.

15. - Method of payment.

16. - Reduced entitlement to payments.

17. - Withholding and reduction of payments.

18. - Revocations, savings and transitional provisions.

SCHEDULES

Schedule 1. - Persons.

Schedule 2. - Specified courses.

Schedule 3. - Terms and conditions.

Schedule 4. - Colleges providing long-term residential courses of full-time education for adults.

Schedule 5. - Fees.

Schedule 6. - Requirements.

Schedule 7. - Resources.

Schedule 8. - Single students with dependants.

Schedule 9. - Sandwich courses.

The Department for Employment and Learning[1] in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 50(1) and (2) and 134(1)[2] of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986[3], and now vested in it[4] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART I

GENERAL

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2003 and shall have effect on and from 1st September 2003.

Interpretation

2. - (1) In these Regulations -

"academic authority" in relation to an institution means the governing body or other body having the functions of a governing body and includes a person acting with the authority of that governing body or other body;

"area" means the area of a board;

"award" includes -

(i) either a fees only award or a full award made under these Regulations; and

(ii) any award made under previous Regulations in respect of a person's attendance at a specified course the first year of which begins before 1st September 1998, or begins on or after that date if the person meets the conditions referred to in regulation 18(8);

"British Islands" means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man;

"Certificate in Education" includes a Teacher's Certificate;

"the Council Regulations" means Council Regulations (EEC) No. 1612/68 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community as extended by the EEA Agreement[5];

"course comparable to a first degree course" means -

(a) a course of at least 3 academic years' duration provided by a university or universities for a certificate, diploma or other academic award;

(b) an educational facility designated by the Department under Article 50(1);

"course for the DipHE" means a course provided by -

(a) a publicly funded institution for the Diploma of Higher Education;

(b) a publicly funded institution for the Diploma of Higher Education or a first degree as the student may elect after the commencement of the course;

(c) a publicly funded institution in conjunction with a private institution, or by a private institution, for the Diploma of Higher Education which is for the time being designated for the purposes of this provision by the Department;

"course for the HND" means -

(i) a course provided by a publicly funded institution for the Higher National Diploma or the Higher National Diploma of the Business and Technology Education Council ("BTEC");

(ii) a course provided by a publicly funded institution in conjunction with a private institution, or by a private institution, for the Higher National Diploma or the Higher National Diploma of the Business and Technology Education Council, which is for the time being designated for the purposes of this provision by the Department;

"course of higher education" means a course of a type listed in Schedule 1 to the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997[6] for the purposes of paragraph 2(d) of Sche...

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