The Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

9.  After regulation 46(7) insert—

“(8) Where A’s application for a childcare grant does not identify a childcare provider, the Department may limit—

(a) the amount of grant paid to A to the amount specified in paragraph (9), and

(b) payment of the grant to one quarter of the academic year,

until A has submitted details of the childcare provider to the Department.

(9) In paragraph (8), the amount of childcare grant is 85 per cent of the prescribed childcare charges, subject to a maximum amount of £115 per week.

(10) Subject to paragraphs (8) and (11), a childcare grant is payable in respect of the four quarters of the academic year.

(11) Subject to paragraph (12), where one of the events listed in regulation 18(a), (b), (c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a childcare grant in respect of such quarters as begin after the relevant event occurs.

(12) Where the state of which the student is a national accedes to the EU the student may qualify for the childcare grant only if the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course.”.