The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2003
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2003/1994 |
| Year | 2003 |
2003 No. 1994
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2003
Made 28th July 2003
Laid before Parliament 7th August 2003
Coming into force 1st September 2003
The Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 4(2) of, and paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Education Act 19621, and by sections 3(1) and (3) of the Education Act 19732hereby makes the following Regulations:
PART 1
GENERAL
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st September 2003.
Definitions
2. In these Regulations—
“academic authority” means, in relation to an institution, the governing body, or other body having the functions of a governing body and includes a person acting with the authority of that body;
“authority” means a local education authority;
“award” includes—
(i) either a fees only award or a full award bestowed under these Regulations; and
(ii)any award bestowed under previous Awards Regulations in respect of a person’s attendance at a designated 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 6(7);
“Certificate in Education” includes a Teacher’s Certificate;
“course”, “designated course”, “sandwich course” and other qualified references to courses have the meanings respectively assigned to them by regulation 4;
“degree” means a degree awarded by a university, institution of higher education in the United Kingdom or the Council for National Academic Awards;
“dependent” means wholly or mainly financially dependent;
“employment” means full-time employment or part-time employment which, in a normal week, involves a significant number of hours of work and “employed” shall be construed accordingly, and for the purposes hereof the references to employment include references to the holding of any office and to any occupation for gain;
“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 19923as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 19934;
“EEA migrant worker” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 5;
“European Community” means the area comprised by the member states of the European Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time;
“European Economic Area” means the European Community and subject to the conditions laid down in the EEA Agreement the area comprised by the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway and the Principality of Liechtenstein;
“European student” means a person who is a national of a member state of the European Community or the child of such a national who has not been ordinarily resident in the British Islands as described in regulation 13(1)(a) and (b) or who is not settled in the United Kingdom as described in regulation 13(1)(c);
“fees only award” means an award bestowed only in respect of fees described in Schedule l;
“full award” means an award bestowed in respect of both fees described in Schedule 1 and a maintenance grant;
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“independent student” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 3;
“institution” means an educational institution in the United Kingdom providing further or higher education or both, or providing a course which qualifies for funding under Part I of the Education Act 19945;
“maintenance grant” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 17
“Metropolitan Police District” means the areas referred to in section 76(1) of the London Government Act 19636as it had effect prior to its amendment by section 323 of the Greater London Authority Act 19997;
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“overseas institution” means an educational institution outside the United Kingdom providing further or higher education or both;
“previous Awards Regulations” means Regulations made under section 1 of the Education Act 1962 and revoked either by regulation 6 or before the coming into force of these Regulations;
“refugee” means a person who is recognized by Her Majesty’s Government as a refugee within the meaning of the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 195l8as extended by the Protocol thereto which entered into force on 4th October 19679and any reference to the child of a refugee includes a reference to a person adopted in pursuance of adoption proceedings and a step-child;
“sandwich course” and in relation to such a course “periods of experience”, “prescribed proportion”, “modified proportion” and “sandwich year” have the meanings respectively assigned to them by paragraph 1 of Schedule 5;
“statutory award” means any award bestowed or grant paid by virtue of the Education Act 1962 or any comparable award, grant or other payment made in respect of attendance at a course which is paid out of moneys provided by Parliament;
“student” means a person upon whom an award has been bestowed under these Regulations or previous Awards Regulations;
“Swiss Agreement” means the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of Persons signed at Luxembourg on 21st June 1999 and which came into force on 1st June 200210;
“university” means a university in the United Kingdom and includes a university college and a constituent college, school or hall of a university;
“year”, in relation to a course, means the period of twelve months beginning on 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st September accordingas to whether the academic year of the course in question begins in the winter, the spring, the summer or the autumn respectively; and references to the first or the final year of a designated course shall be construed accordingly.
References to independent students
3.—(1) In these Regulations “independent student” means a student who—
(a)
(a) has attained the age of 25 years before the beginning of the year for which payments in pursuance of his award fall to be made; or
(b)
(b) has supported himself out of his earnings for periods before the first year of his course aggregating not less than three years; or
(c)
(c) has been married before the beginning of the year for which payments in pursuance of his award fall to be made whether or not the marriage is still subsisting; or
(d)
(d) has no parent living; or
(e)
(e) is irreconcilably estranged from his parents.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (b) a student shall be treated as having supported himself out of his earnings for any period or periods for which—
(a)
(a) he was participating in arrangements for training for the unemployed under any scheme operated, sponsored or funded by any state authority or agency, national, regional or local;
(b)
(b) the student was in receipt of benefit payable by any state authority or agency, national, regional or local, in respect of a person who is available for employment but who is unemployed;
(c)
(c) the student was available for employment and had complied with any requirement of registration imposed by a body referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) as a condition of entitlement for participation in arrangements for training or receipt of benefit; or
(d)
(d) the student held a State Studentship bestowed under regulation 4 of the State Awards Regulations 197811or a comparable award; or
(e)
(e) the student received any pension, allowance or other benefit paid by reason of a disability to which the student is subject, or by reason of confinement, injury or sickness, paid by any state authority or agency, national, regional or local, by an employer or any former employer, or by any other person; or
(f)
(f) the student could not reasonably have been expected to support himself out of his earnings because he had the care of a person under the age of 18 years who was dependent upon him.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(e) a student shall be regarded as irreconcilably estranged from his parents if, but not only if, he has not communicated with either one of them for the period of one year before the beginning of the year for which payments in pursuance of his award fall to be made.
(4) In this regulation “parent” shall have the same meaning as in Part II of Schedule 3 to these Regulations.
References to courses
4.—(1) In these Regulations any reference to a designated course shall be construed as a reference to a course designated by or under regulation 10 and, in relation to any person, any reference to such a course (otherwise unqualified) shall, as the context requires, be construed as a reference to a designated course which the person in question attends or has applied to attend; and, in relation to any designated course except one designated under regulation 10(1)(d), any reference to a course shall be construed as a reference to either a course of full-time study or a sandwich course.
(2) In these Regulations any reference to a first degree course, a DipHE course, an HND course, a course of initial training for teachers, a course comparable to a first degree course or an international course shall be construed in accordance with regulation 10.
(3) In these Regulations any reference to a sandwich course shall be construed as a reference to such a course within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 5.
(4) In these Regulations, any reference to a course of higher education shall be construed in accordance with section 120(1) of the Education Reform Act 198812.
(5) For the purposes of these Regulations a course the standard of which is not higher than a first degree course which leads to a qualification as a medical doctor, a dentist, a veterinary doctor, an architect, a landscape architect, a landscape designer, a landscape manager, a town planner or a town and country planner shall be...
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