Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Amendment of the principal Regulations

12.—(1) Schedule 10(1) (Eligible Students) shall be amended as provided by paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) For paragraph 1(3) there shall be substituted—

“(3) For the purposes of this Schedule, a person is to be treated as ordinarily resident in the British Islands, the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland or the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Turkey if he would have been so resident but for the fact that—

(a) he;

(b) his spouse or civil partner;

(c) his parent; or

(d) in the case of a dependent relative in the ascending line, his child or child’s spouse or civil partner,

is or was temporarily employed outside that area.”.

(3) For paragraph 1(4) there shall be substituted—

“(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), temporary employment outside the British Islands, the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland or the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Turkey includes—

(a) in the case of members of the regular naval, military or air forces of the Crown, any period which they serve outside the British Islands as members of such forces;

(b) in the case of members of the regular armed forces of an EEA State or Switzerland, any period which they serve outside the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland as members of such forces; and

(c) in the case of members of the regular armed forces of Turkey, any period which they serve outside the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Turkey as members of such forces.”.

(4) After paragraph 11 there shall be inserted—

“Children of Turkish workers

12.   A person who—

(a) is the child of a Turkish worker; and

(b) has been ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Turkey throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course.”.

(1)

Schedule 10 was inserted by regulation 14 of S.R. 2006 No. 378