Revocation, savings and transitional provisions
4.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the following regulations are revoked on 1st September 2007—
(a)the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(1);
(b)the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(2); and
(c)regulation 3.
(2) Paragraph (3) of regulation 3 of the 2006 Regulations continues to apply.
(3) The 2006 Regulations continue to apply to the provision of support to students in relation to an academic year which begins on or after 1st September 2006 but before 1st September 2007.
(4) Regulation 88 applies to loans with effect from 1st September 2007.
(5) With the exception of regulation 3, these Regulations apply in relation to the provision of support to students in relation to an academic year which begins on or after 1st September 2007 whether anything done under these Regulations is done before, on or after 1st September 2007.
(6) Despite any other provision in these Regulations where—
(a)a person attends a course in respect of which a transitional award was made to him; or
(b)no award under the 1986 Order was made in respect of the course but a transitional award would have been made to him if he had applied for an award under the 1986 Order and his resources had not exceeded his requirements,
he is an old system student for the purposes of Parts 4 and 5 in connection with the course, or in connection with any subsequent course to which the award (either made or which would have been made under the 1986 Order) would have been transferred if transitional awards provided for payments after the first year of a course, but unless paragraph (7) applies he qualifies for support by way of loan for living costs under Part 6 only if he is an eligible student under these Regulations and if he satisfies the qualifying conditions for an old system student in Part 6.
(7) Despite any other provision in these Regulations, where any person received or was eligible to receive a loan in relation to an academic year of a course under the 1998 Regulations he is an old system student for the purposes of Part 6 in connection with the course, or any subsequent designated course which (disregarding any intervening vacation) he begins immediately after ceasing that course, but unless paragraph (6) applies he qualifies for fee support under Chapters 3 and 4 of Part 4 and grants for living and other costs under Part 5 only if he is an eligible student under these Regulations and if he satisfies the relevant qualifying conditions for an old system student in Parts 4 and 5.