Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

means, in relation to a student, an adult person dependent on the student not being his child, his spouse or a person living with him as his spouse or his former spouse, subject however to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3);

means the area of a board;

includes an award made under previous awards regulations, and either a fees only award or a full award bestowed under these Regulations;

means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man;

includes a person whether under or over compulsory school age and a person adopted in pursuance of adoption proceedings and a step-child but, except in paragraph 4, does not include a child who holds a statutory award and, except as otherwise provided by paragraph 5, “parent” shall be construed accordingly;

means— (a) a course of at least 3 academic years' duration provided by a university for a certificate, diploma or other academic award;

means a course provided by an institution for— (a) the Diploma of Higher Education;

means a course provided by an institution for the Higher National Diploma or the Higher National Diploma of the Business and Technology Education Council (“BTEC”);

means a course of a type listed in Schedule 7 to the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989;

means— (a) a course for the initial training of teachers (other than a course for the degree of Bachelor of Education) provided by an institution;

means the financial year which includes the first day of that assessment year;

means a degree awarded by a university, institution of higher education in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland or the Council for National Academic Awards;

means, in relation to a student, his dependent child, his spouse or an adult dependant, subject however to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3);

means wholly or mainly financially dependent;

means full-time employment or part-time employment which, in a normal week, involves a significant number of hours of work and “employed” shall be construed accordingly, and for the purposes hereof the references to employment include references to the holding for gain of any office and to the following for gain of any occupation;

means the area comprised by the member states of the European Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time, and as respects any period prior to the unification of the Federal Republic of Germany with the former German Democratic Republic, that former Republic;

means a person who is a national of a member state of the European Community or the child of such a national and has been ordinarily resident within the European Community (excluding the British Islands) throughout the period of 3 years before the commencement of his course, but who is not entitled to a full award by virtue of Regulation 11(2);

means an award bestowed only in respect of fees described in Schedule 6;

means— (a) a course provided by an institution for a first degree or for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine or an equivalent degree;

means an award bestowed in respect of both fees described in Schedule 6 and a maintenance grant;

means the income of the student’s parent in the preceding financial year or, for the purpose of calculating residual income under paragraph 2(2), in a financial year there mentioned.

means Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, countries of the former Soviet Union, Spain and the United States of America;

means Australia, Austria, Belgium, Iceland, France, Japan, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Korea;

means Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan;

means income for the year from all sources less— (a) income tax, social security contributions and child benefit;

means a student who— (a) has attained the age of 25 years before the beginning of the year for which payments in pursuance of his award fall to be made;

means a university or institution of higher education in the United Kingdom maintained or assisted by recurrent grants out of public funds or a university or institution of higher education in the Republic of Ireland providing a full-time course approved by the Department to be a course comparable to one listed in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 3;

means a grant calculated in accordance with regulation 13;

means the proportion which the number of weeks in a sandwich year during which the student has no periods of experience bears to 52;

means the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;

means an educational institution in a country outside the United Kingdom providing further or higher education or both;

includes a guardian, or any other person having actual custody of a minor.

means— (a) periods of industrial, professional or commercial experience associated with full-time study at an institution but at a place outside the institution, other than periods of— (a) unpaid service in a hospital or in a public health service laboratory;

means the financial year immediately preceding the year in respect of which the resources of the student fall to be assessed (“assessment year”) and “current financial year” means the financial year which includes the first day of that assessment year;

means the proportion which the number of weeks in a sandwich year during which the student attends the institution for full-time study bears to 30, except that, where that proportion is greater than the whole, it means the whole;

means the Regulations revoked by regulation 2 and any regulations superseded by those Regulations;

means a person recognised by Her Majesty’s government as a refugee within the meaning of the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 as extended by the Protocol thereto which entered into force on 4th October 1967 and any reference to the child of a refugee includes a reference to a person adopted in pursuance of adoption proceedings and a step-child;

means a statutory award in respect of a person’s attendance at a full-time course of higher education or a comparable course outside Northern Ireland;

means— (a) except in the case mentioned in sub-paragraph (b), the last day of the month of October, February, April or June (according as the academic year of the course begins in the winter, spring, summer or autumn respectively) preceding the beginning of the course;

means, subject to sub-paragraph (2), the balance of gross income remaining in any year after the deductions specified in paragraph 6 have been made;

means a course consisting of alternate periods of full-time study at an institution and periods of experience so organised that, taking the course as a whole, the student attends the periods of full-time study for an average of not less than 19 weeks in each year of the course;

means, as respects any student, a year of a sandwich course which includes both attendance at full-time study at an institution and periods of experience;

means a course of a type listed in Schedule 3;

means any award or grant paid by virtue of Article 50 (except a maintenance allowance payable under the Maintenance Allowances (Pupils over Compulsory School Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992) or Article 51 and includes any comparable award or grant which is paid out of moneys provided by Parliament;

means a person to whom an award has been made under these Regulations or previous awards regulations;

means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community • “course comparable to a first degree course” means— (a) a course of at least 3 academic years' duration provided by a university for a certificate, diploma or other academic award;

has the same meaning as in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978;

has the same meaning as in section 835(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.

means a university in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and includes a university college and a constituent college, school or hall of a university;