Local Education Authority (Post-Compulsory Education Awards)(Wales) Regulations 2002

Interpretation

3.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “Assembly Learning Grant” (“Grant Dysgu'r Cynulliad”) means a post-compulsory education award to a person undergoing a course of further or higher education which has been designated for the purposes of the Assembly Learning Grant Scheme, where that person meets the eligibility requirements of that Scheme;

• “the Assembly Learning Grant Scheme” (“Cynllun Grant Dysgu'r Cynulliad”) means the scheme established by the National Assembly, setting out conditions for the making of grant by the National Assembly under regulations made under section 484 of the Education Act 1996(1) to reimburse expenditure incurred by education authorities in paying Assembly Learning Grants being expenditure which is approved by the National Assembly for the purposes of those regulations for the financial year in question;

• “educational facilities” (“cyfleusterau addysgol”), in relation to an eligible person, means—

  (a)

  secondary education provided at a school, or

  (b)

  a full-time or part-time course of further or higher education at an educational institution or otherwise, apart from (unless the award is an Assembly Learning Grant) a course in respect of which that person is eligible for any financial support by way of grant or loan under regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(2);

• “education authority” (“awdurdod addysg”) means a local education authority in Wales;

• “eligible person” (“person cymwys”) means a person over compulsory school age;

• “financial year” (“blwyddyn ariannol”) means a period of twelve months ending with 31st March;

• “National Assembly” (“Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means National Assembly for Wales;

• “post-compulsory education award” (“dyfarndal addysg ôl-orfodol”) means an award granted by an education authority under regulation 4;

• “the revoked regulations” (“y rheoliadau a ddiddymwyd”) are the regulations revoked by regulation 2.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation to a paragraph is a reference to a paragraph of that regulation.

(1)

The current regulations made under section 484 of the Education Act 1996 are the Education (Assembly Learning Grant Scheme)(Wales) Regulations (S.I. 2002/1857 (W.181).

(2)

1998 c. 30.