The Education (Fees and Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No.830

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

EDUCATION, SCOTLAND

The Education (Fees and Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made

25th March 1991

Laid before Parliament

27 th March 1991

Coming into force

17th April 1991

The Secretary of State for Education and Science, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 2 of the Education (Fees and Awards) Act 1983(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:–

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Fees and Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 17th April 1991.

Amendment

2.  The Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations 1983(2) shall be amended as follows–

(1) In schedule 2–

(a) in paragraph 1(b) there shall be substituted for the words “accession to the European Community of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic” the words “unification of the Federal Republic of Germany”;

(b) paragraph 2(2)(a)(ii) shall be deleted and the following substituted–

“(ii) (as respects any period prior to the unification of the Federal Republic of Germany) the former German Democratic Republic, and”; and

(c) in paragraph 5 there shall be substituted for the words “the Kingdom of Spain or the Portuguese Republic” in both places where they occur the words “or (as respects any period prior to the unification of the Federal Republic of Germany) the former German Democratic Republic”.

(2) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 and paragraph 3(3)(a) and 5 of Schedule 4, there shall be substituted for the words “and (as regards any period prior to their accession to that Community) the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic” the words “and (as respects any period prior to the unification of the Federal Republic of Germany) the former German Democratic Republic.”

Kenneth Clarke

Secretary of State for Education and Science

25th March 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations 1983 so that residence in the former German Democratic Republic prior to the unification of the Federal Republic of Germany is treated as residence in the European Community.

(1)

1983 c. 40.

(2)

S.I. 1983/973, as amended by S.I. 1984/1201, 1985/1219, 1987/1364 and 1988/1391.