The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 2156 (W.180)

EDUCATION, WALES

The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Made

1 August 2009

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

4 August 2009

Coming into force

31 August 2009

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by sections 22, 42(6) and 43(1) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(1), and now exercisable by them(2) make the following Regulations:

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2009.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 31 August 2009 and apply in relation to Wales.

Amendments

2.  The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2008(3) are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 12.

3.  In regulation 2, in the definition of “Research Council” (“Cyngor Ymchwil”), for “Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council”, substitute “Science and Technology Facilities Council”(4).

4.  In the Welsh text of regulation 3(9), for “1 Medi 2008” substitute “1 Medi 2009”.

5.  In regulation 5(2), for “paragraph 6 or 7” substitute “paragraph 7 or 8”.

6.  In regulation 6(16)(l), for “1 September 2007”, substitute “1 September 2009”.

7.  In the Welsh text of regulation 10(2)(b), for “21(6) neu 21(8)” substitute “21(3) neu 21(7)”.

8.  In regulation 60(11), for “paragraph (4)” substitute “paragraph (10)”.

9.  In regulation 60(12), for “paragraph (4)” substitute “paragraph (10)”.

10.  In regulation 80(2), for “paragraph 6 or 7” substitute “paragraph 7 or 8”.

11.  In the English text of paragraph 9(1)(a)(ii) in Schedule 1, omit “a” after “a family member of”.

12.  In the Welsh text of paragraph 5(1)(a) in Schedule 6, for “£39,780” substitute “£39,793”.

Jane Hutt

Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers

1 August 2009

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3170) (W.283) (“the 2008 Regulations”) provide for financial support for students who are ordinarily resident in Wales taking designated higher education courses in respect of academic years beginning on or after 1 September 2009.

These Regulations correct minor technical errors and typographical errors in the 2008 Regulations.

(1)

1998 c. 30; section 22 was amended by the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21), section 146 and Schedule 11, the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), Schedule 6, the Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), section 147 and the Higher Education Act 2004 (c. 8), sections 42 and 43 and Schedule 7.

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (except so far as they relate to the making of any provision authorised by subsection (2)(a), (c), (j) or (k), (3)(e) or (f) or (5) of section 22) were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by section 44 of the Higher Education Act 2004 and the Higher Education Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) (Wales) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1833 (W.149)(C.79)) as amended by the Higher Education Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1660 (W.159)(C.56)). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraphs 30(1) and 30(2)(a) of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

(3)

S.I. 2008/3170 (W.283).

(4)

The Science and Technology Facilities Council was formed as a research council through a merger of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.