The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2003

PART 1 ORDINARY MAINTENANCE

1.—(1) The requirements of the student referred to in regulation 18(1) (a) shall include his requirement for ordinary maintenance during—

(a) any period while he is attending the course; and

(b) the Christmas and Easter vacations;

and the amount of such requirement (“ordinary maintenance requirement”) shall be determined in accordance with this Part of this Schedule.

(2) Where a student’s ordinary maintenance requirements are different in respect of different parts of a year, his ordinary maintenance requirement for that year shall be the aggregate of the proportionate parts of those differing requirements.

2.—(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of—

(a) any student who does not reside at his parents' home; and

(b) any student residing at his parents' home whose parents by reason of age, incapacity or otherwise cannot reasonably be expected to support him and in respect of whom the authority are satisfied that in all the circumstances the ordinary maintenance requirement specified herein would be appropriate.

(2) In the case of such a student the ordinary maintenance requirement shall be £2,045 except that—

(a) if he attends one of the following:

(i) a course at the University of London, or

(ii) a course at an institution which requires attendance for at least half the time in aggregate of any term of the academic year excluding vacations at a site within the area comprising the City of London and the Metropolitan Police District, or

(iii) a sandwich course at an institution which requires him to undertake work experience or a combination of work experience and study for at least half the time in aggregate of any term of the academic year excluding vacations at a site or sites within the area comprising the City of London and the Metropolitan Police District,

it shall be £2,510.

(b) if he attends for a period of at least eight weeks and as part of his course an overseas institution, it shall be … £2,920.

3.  In the case of any other student the ordinary maintenance requirement shall be £1,665.