The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Eligible students

3.—(1) Subject to and in accordance with these Regulations a person shall be eligible for a grant in connection with his undertaking a designated course and in respect of an academic year which begins on or after 1st September 2001 if:

(a) he is a person mentioned in the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(b) the Department is satisfied that, by reason of a disability to which he is subject, he will be obliged to incur additional expenditure in respect of his undertaking his course.

(2) A person shall not be eligible under this regulation if—

(a) there has been made to him or paid to him in relation to his undertaking the course—

(i) a bursary or award of similar description under Article 3 of the Order the amount of which includes an element for living costs;

(ii) a bursary or award of similar description under Article 44 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(1) or section 63 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968(2) the amount of which is not calculated by reference to his income;

(iii) any allowance paid to him under regulations made under sections 73(f) and 74(i) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 in respect of a course leading to a qualification in a healthcare profession, other than a medical doctor or dentist(3);

(iv) any allowance, bursary or award of similar description made by a Research Council or similar body;

(v) any allowance, bursary or award of similar description made by his institution which includes any payment for the purpose of meeting additional expenditure incurred by the student by reason of his disability; or

(vi) any other scholarship, studentship, exhibition, bursary, award, grant, allowance or benefit however described payable in connection with the student’s attendance on the course; or

(b) he has, in the opinion of the Department, shown himself by his conduct to be unfitted to receive any support.

(3) A person shall not be eligible for a grant for more than one designated course at any one time.

(4) Where a person who meets the requirements of this regulation is notified of that fact by the Department under regulation 5(4) he shall henceforth be an eligible student for the purposes of these Regulations unless, in relation to the second and any subsequent academic year of his course, he is not ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland on the first day of that academic year.

(1)

S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14).

(2)

1968 c. 46; section 63 was amended by the National Health Services Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Schedule 4, paragraph 124 and Schedule 5, the National Health Services Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, paragraph 45 and Schedule 16, the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), Schedule 16, paragraph 26(2) and Schedule 17, the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1 and 2 and Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 19(3), the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 17, the Family Practitioner Committees (Consequential Modifications) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/39), Article 6(1), the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 20, section 25(2) and Schedule 3, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 13, paragraph 74(1) and (2), the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 95(1) and (2), the Local Government Reorganisation (Wales) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1008), the Schedule, paragraph 1, and the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 1(4)

(3)

S.I. 1992/580