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These Regulations amend the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (“the principal Regulations”). The principal Regulations provide for the making of awards for courses beginning on or after 1st September 1998, and for payments pursuant to awards whenever made. Subject to saving and transitional provisions the principal Regulations will be replaced by the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 on 1st September 1999. These amendments are therefore relevant to academic years beginning on or after 1st September 1998 and before 1st September 1999.
Regulation 12(2) of the principal Regulations provided that payments pursuant to transitional awards, which were made in respect of most courses beginning after 1st September 1998, should be made in respect of the first year of the course. The intention was that financial support for subsequent years should be provided pursuant to regulations made under Articles 3 and 8(4) of the Student Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1998. Now that such regulations have been made (The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999) it is not necessary to allow for the possibility that payments might be made after the first year of the course, and accordingly an amendment provides for such awards to be terminated after the first year (regulation 3).
An amendment ensures that incapacity benefit is disregarded in determining the income of a student, whether or not the benefit is taxable (regulation 4).
An amendment provides that modern language students employed for a period in a country which speaks a language of their course should be treated as sandwich students, whether or not the employment is paid (regulation 5).
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