The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1999

Members of religious orders

21.—(1) This regulation shall apply where the student is a member of a religious order (“the Order”) unless the course is a course of teacher training designated under regulation 10(1)(d)(iii) and regulation 22 applies.

(2) The payment in respect of maintenance under regulation 17(1)(b) in the case of a student upon whom an old award has been bestowed shall be the sum specified as appropriate in paragraph (3) or (4):

• Provided that–

  (a)

  where the course is a sandwich course, the payment in respect of a sandwich year shall be the prescribed proportion of the sum otherwise payable in respect of maintenance and no payment shall be made in respect of a year which includes no periods of full-time study;

  (b)

  where the course is a part-time course of teacher training designated under regulation 10(1)(d)(ii), the payment shall be three-quarters of the sum so specified.

(3) In the case of a student who resides at his parents' home or in a house of the Order, the appropriate sum shall be £710.

(4) In the case of any other student, the appropriate sum shall be £975 except that, where he is attending a course–

(a) at the University of London, or

(b) at an institution within the area comprising the City of London and the Metropolitan Police District,

it shall be £1,225 and where he is attending a course in a country outside the United Kingdom it shall be–

• …

• £1,410 if that country is a higher-cost country;

• £1,060 if that country is a high-cost country; and

• £865 in any other case.

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