The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Amendments to the 2009 Regulations

20.  In regulation 42 (amount of the disabled students’ allowance)(1)—

(a) for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) The amount of the disabled students’ allowance in respect of an academic year—

(a) for expenditure other than travel expenditure, must not exceed £25,000;

(b) for travel expenditure, must not exceed the additional expenditure incurred.”

(b) omit paragraphs (3) and (4);

(c) in paragraph (5) omit “, except where the allowance is used for expenditure on major items of specialist equipment”;

(d) in paragraph (6) for the words “for the purposes specified” to the end substitute—

“in respect of—

(a) the quarter in which the relevant event occurs, and

(b) if relevant, such quarters as begin after the relevant event occurs.”

(1)

Regulation 42 was amended by S.Rs 2012 No. 398, 2021 Nos 50 and 85 and 260.