The Social Security (Students and Income-Related Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Treatment of student loans

4.  After paragraph (2)(a)(1) in—

(a) regulation 57A of the Housing Benefit Regulations;

(b) regulation 66A of the Income Support Regulations;

(c) regulation 136 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations,

there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa) in respect of an academic year of a course which starts other than on 1st September, a loan which is payable in respect of that academic year shall be apportioned equally between the weeks in the period beginning with the benefit week immediately following that which includes the first day of that academic year and ending with the benefit week which includes the last day of that academic year but excluding any benefit weeks falling entirely within the quarter during which, in the opinion of the Department, the longest of any vacation is taken and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph “quarter” shall have the same meaning as for the purposes of the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001;”.

(1)

Paragraph (2) was substituted in each instance by S.R. 2000 No. 242