1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 11th December 2000.
2. The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) Regulations 2000(1) shall be amended as follows.
3.—(1) In regulation 2(1) in the definition of “eligible student” for the words “attendance at” substitute the word “undertaking”.
(2) In regulation 2(2) for the word “attending” (in each place where it appears) substitute the word “undertaking”.
(3) In regulation 2(6)—
(a)omit the word “attending” (where it first appears); and
(b)for the word “attending” (where it appears for the second time) substitute the word “it”.
4.—(1) in regulation 3(1) for the words “attendance at” (in each place where they appear) substitute the word “undertaking”.
(2) In regulation 3(2)—
(a)in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “attendance on” substitute the word “undertaking”; and
(b)for sub-paragraph (a)(iv) substitute the following:
“(iv)any allowance, bursary or award of similar description made by his institution which includes any payment for the purpose of meeting additional expenditure incurred by the student by reason of his disability; or”.
(3) At the end of regulation 3(4) add the following words:
“unless, in relation to the second and any subsequent academic year of his course, he is not ordinarily resident in England and Wales on the first day of that academic year”.
5. In regulation 4(1)(a) after the words “first degree (or equivalent qualification)” insert the words “or higher”.
6. In regulation 5(4)(a) for the words “attendance at” substitute the word “undertaking”.
7.—(1) In regulation 6(1) for the word “attend” (in each place where it appears) substitute the word “undertake”.
(2) In regulation 6(2) for the words “attendance at” substitute the word “undertaking”.
8. In regulation 8(2)(c)—
(a)for the word “attend” substitute the word “undertake”; and
(b)for the word “return” substitute the words “continue it”.
9. In regulation 9(1) for the words “attendance at” substitute the word “undertaking”.
Tessa Blackstone
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
20th November 2000