The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2825

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Made

16th October 2000

Laid before Parliament

17th October 2000

Coming into force

7th November 2000

The Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 4(2) of the Education Act 1962(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 7th November 2000.

2.  The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2000(2) shall be amended as follows.

3.  In paragraph 14(1)(b) and (3) of Schedule 2 insert after the words “city college for the technology of the arts” the words “or a city academy(3)”.

4.  In paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 3 insert at the end the words “or under section 65(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(4)”.

Tessa Blackstone,

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

16th October 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 7th November 2000, amend the Mandatory Awards Regulations 2000. Paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 to the Mandatory Awards Regulations 2000 is amended so that grant may be paid in respect of a dependent child who attends a city academy (regulation 3). Paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 3 to the Mandatory Awards Regulations 2000 is amended to extend the disregard of grants to students to facilitate teacher training, in calculating their income, to payments in respect of such training by institutions which receive funding under section 65(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (regulation 4).

(1)

1962 c. 12; the relevant provisions, as amended, are set out in Schedule 5 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20); section 1(3)(d) was amended by the Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984 (c. 11), section 4; section 4 was amended by the Education Act 1994 (c. 30), Schedule 2, paragraph 2; the entire Act was repealed by the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30), section 44(2) and Schedule 4, subject to the saving and transitional provisions set out in the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3237 (c. 81)), article 4.

(2)

S.I. 2000/2123.

(3)

City academies are established pursuant to section 482 of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56) as amended by the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21), section 130.

(4)

1992 c. 13.