Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Information

9.—(1) Every applicant, every eligible student and every eligible part-time student shall as soon as reasonably practicable after he is requested to do so provide the Department with such information as the Department considers necessary for the exercise of its functions under these Regulations.

(2) Every applicant, every eligible student and every eligible part-time student shall forthwith inform the Department if any of the following occurs, and provide it with particulars—

(a) he withdraws from, abandons or is expelled from his course;

(b) he transfers to another course, at the same or a different institution, whether the new course is a designated course, a designated part-time course or neither;

(c) he ceases to undertake his course and does not intend to or is not permitted to continue it for the remainder of the academic year;

(d) he is absent from his course for more than 60 days due to illness, or is absent from his course for any period for any other reason;

(e) the month for the start or completion of the course changes;

(f) his home or term time address or telephone number changes.

(3) If the Department is satisfied that an eligible student or eligible part-time student has wilfully failed to comply with any requirement to provide information or has provided information which the student knows to be false in a material particular or has recklessly provided information which is false in a material particular it may determine that the student shall—

(a) no longer be eligible for any support, or

(b) not be eligible for any particular support or particular amount of support as it considers appropriate in the circumstances.