The Education (Student Loans) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2001 No. 276

EDUCATION

The Education (Student Loans) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made

9th July 2001

Coming into operation

1st August 2001

The Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 3(2) of and paragraphs 1(1) of Schedule 2, to the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990(1), and now vested in it(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These regulations may be cited as the Education (Student Loans) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2001.

Amendment of the Education (Student Loans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

2.—(1) The Education (Student Loans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(3) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) For each figure in column (1) in the following table wherever it appears in regulation 6(1) to (4)(4) there shall be substituted the figure specified opposite thereto in column (2)—

(1)	(2)
£1,020	£1,045
1,645	1,685
1,395	1,430
2,255	2,310
1,330	1,365
1,825	1,870.

(3) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 in the definition of “disability related benefits” for the words “disability working allowance” substitute the words “disabled person’s tax credit”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment on 9th July 2001.

L.S.

Adrian Arbuthnot

A senior officer of the

Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations, which come into operation on 1st August 2001, amend the Education (Student Loans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (“the principal Regulations”). The principal Regulations govern loans made under the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990, which are mortgage style repayment loans. Such loans are for the most part made to students who began their courses before 1st August 1998. Loans under the Student Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, repayable through the tax system, are made to students beginning their courses after 1st August 1998.

The maximum amounts which may be lent in relation to an academic year have been increased in line with inflation (regulation 2(2)).

On 5th October 1999, disability working allowance was replaced by disabled person’s tax credit and the definition of “disability related benefit” in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 has been amended accordingly (regulation 2(3)).

(1)

S.I. 1990/1506 (N.I. 11); as amended by S.I. 1996/274 (N.I. 1), Article 43 and Schedule 5 Part II, S.I. 1996/1918 (N.I. 15), Article 3 and the Schedule and S.I. 1998/258 (N.I. 1), Articles 3 to 6

(2)

S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 5(b) and Schedule 3 Part II

(3)

S.R. 1998 No. 58 as amended by S.R. 1998 No. 262, S.R. 1998 No. 303 S.R. 1999 No. 343 and by S.R. 2000 No. 244

(4)

Amended by S.R. 1998 No. 262, S.R. 1999 No. 343 and S.R. 2000 No. 244