The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1998

PART IV OLDER STUDENTS

15.  This part of this Schedule shall apply in the case of a student who attained the age of 26 before the first year of the course in respect of which his award was originally bestowed and who—

(a) started the course before 1st September 1995 and in the three years immediately preceding the first year of the course earned or received by way of such unemployment benefit or income support as is chargeable to income tax under section 617 or 151 respectively of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988(1) sums totalling at least £12,000; or

(b) started the course before 1st September 1995, held an award (or was in receipt of a grant under arrangements made under section 2 of the Education Act 1962(2)) in respect of his attendance at a previous course and had earned or received such sums as are mentioned at sub-paragraph (a) in the three years immediately preceding the first year of that previous course; or

(c) started the course on or after 1st September 1995, immediately before starting that course (disregarding any intervening vacation) attended a full-time course of further or higher education which he had started before 1st September 1995 and had earned or received such sums as are mentioned at sub-paragraph (a) in the three years immediately preceding the first year of that previous course.

16.  The requirements referred to in regulation 18(1)(a) shall, in the case of such a student, include—

(a) where at the beginning of the first year of his course he was aged 26 years, the sum of £340;

(b) where he was so aged 27 years, the sum of £595;

(c) where he was so aged 28 years, the sum of £885;

(d) where he was so aged 29 or more years, the sum of £1,165.

(1)

1988 c. 1.

(2)

1962 c. 12; the relevant provisions, as amended, are set out in Schedule 5 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20).