Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 27th March 1998.

Regulation 17 makes provision to the effect that an education and library board is not required to make a payment under regulation 12 of the Regulations in respect of any year in respect of which the student concerned is an assisted student.

Assisted students are those whose total requirements in respect of fees and maintenance as defined are equal to or exceeded by the total of certain payments he receives. Those payments include (in regulation 17(2)(a)) payments in pursuance of any award, bursary or other payment made to the student in respect of the course, but exclude any loan under the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1506 (N.I. 11)) as amended, and any “Career Development Loan” made in pursuance of section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (c. 50), as amended.

In order to avoid discrimination against any European student who may receive a loan under the legislation of another member State of the European Community, these Regulations provide that such loans are similarly to be excluded from consideration when deciding whether a student is an assisted student.