Education Act 1962
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Education Act 1962
(10 & 11 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 12
An Act to make further provision with respect to awards and grants by local education authorities and the Minister of Education in England and Wales, and by education authorities and the Secretary of State in Scotland, and to enable the General Grant Order, 1960, and the General Grant (Scotland) Order, 1960, to be varied so as to take account of additional or reduced expenditure resulting from action (including anticipatory action) taken in accordance with that provision; to make further provision as to school leaving dates; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Awards and grants by local education authorities and Minister of Education in England and Wales
1 Local education authority awards for first degree university courses and comparable courses in United Kingdom.
(1) It shall be the duty of every local education authority, subject to and in accordance with regulations made under this Act, to bestow awards on persons who—
(a ) are ordinarily resident in the area of the authority, and
(b ) possess the requisite educational qualifications,
in respect of their attendance at courses to which this section applies.
(2) This section shall apply to such full-time courses at universities, colleges or other institutions in Great Britain and Northern Ireland as may for the time being be designated by or under the regulations for the purposes of this section as being first degree courses or comparable to first degree courses; and for the purposes of the preceding subsection the requisite educational qualifications, in relation to any course, shall be such as may be prescribed by or under the regulations, either generally or with respect to that course or a class of courses which includes that course.
(3) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section shall prescribe the conditions and exceptions subject to which the duty imposed by that subsection is to have effect, and the descriptions of payments to be made in pursuance of awards bestowed thereunder, and, with respect to each description of payments, shall—
(a ) prescribe the circumstances in which it is to be payable, and the amount of the payment or the scales or other provisions by reference to which that amount is to be determined, and
(b ) indicate whether the payment is to be obligatory or is to be at the discretion of the authority bestowing the award;
and, subject to the exercise of any power conferred by the regulations to suspend or terminate awards, a local education authority by whom an award has been bestowed under subsection (1) of this section shall be under a duty, or shall have power, as the case may be, to make such payments as they are required or authorised to make in accordance with the regulations.
(4) Without prejudice to the duty imposed by subsection (1) of this section, a local education authority shall have power to bestow an award on any person in respect of his attendance at a course to which this section applies, where he is not eligible for an award under subsection (1) of this section in respect of that course.
(5) The provisions of subsection (3) of this section and of the regulations made in accordance with that subsection (except so much of those provisions as relates to the conditions and exceptions subject to which the duty imposed by subsection (1) of this section is to have effect) shall apply in relation to awards under the last preceding subsection as they apply in relation to awards under subsection (1) of this section.
(6) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, that subsection shall not have effect so as to require a local education authority—
(a ) to bestow awards in respect of any period beginning before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, or
(b ) to bestow an award on a person in respect of any course, if a scholarship, exhibition, bursary or other allowance granted to him in respect of that course is in force on that day by virtue of regulations made under paragraph (c ) of section eighty-one of the Act of 1944.
(7) The reference in subsection (1) of this section to persons who are ordinarily resident in the area of a local education authority is a reference to persons who, in accordance with the provisions of the First Schedule to this Act, are to be treated as being so resident.
2 Local education authority awards for other courses of further education, and grants for training of teachers.
(1) A local education authority shall have power to bestow awards on persons over compulsory school age (other than persons undergoing training as teachers) in respect of their attendance at courses to which this subsection applies, and to make such payments as are payable in pursuance of such awards.
(2) The preceding subsection applies to any course of full-time or part-time education (whether held in Great Britain or elsewhere) which is not a course of primary or secondary education, or (in the case of a course held outside Great Britain) is not a course of education comparable to primary or secondary education in Great Britain, and is not a course to which section one of this Act applies.
(3) A local education authority shall have power to pay grants to or in respect of persons undergoing training as teachers; but the power conferred by this subsection shall not be exercisable by a local education authority except in accordance with such arrangements as may from time to time be submitted by the authority to the Minister and approved by him.
3 State grants for training of teachers and awards for postgraduate courses and students over prescribed age.
3. Provision may be made by regulations under this Act for authorising the Minister—
and, in the case of awards bestowed in accordance with paragraph (b ) or paragraph (c ) of this section, for authorising the Minister to make such payments as are payable in pursuance of the awards.
4 Provisions supplementary to ss. 1 to 3.
(1) For the purposes of the exercise of any power or the performance of any duty conferred or imposed by or under any of the...
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