The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1988

means, in relation to an establishment, the governing body, or other body having the functions of a governing body and includes a person acting with the authority of that body;

means, in relation to a student, an adult person dependant 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), (3) and (4);

means a local education authority;

includes an award bestowed under previous Awards Regulations;

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

includes a Teacher’s Certificate;

includes 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;

means the financial year which includes the first day of the year:

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 of any office and to any occupation for gain;

means a university or establishment of further education in the United Kingdom, and “establishment of further education” excludes a university;

means the area comprised by the member states of the European Economic Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time;

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 the financial year there mentioned.

means Belgium, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Luxembourg and the USSR;

means Austria, Canada, Denmark, the Republic of Ireland, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland;

means Finland, Japan, Norway and the United States of America;

means income for the year from all sources less income tax, social security contributions and child benefit and, in the case of the student’s spouse, less— (a) where the spouse holds an award in respect of a course of teacher training designated under regulation 10(1)(d)(iii), being a part-time course or a course which is partly full-time and partly part-time, the payments in respect of maintenance made to the spouse in pursuance of regulation 17(b) or so much of those payments as relates to the part-time part of the course;

means a student who—

has the meaning assigned to it by Regulation 17;

means the proportion which the number of weeks in the year in which there are no periods of experience for the student in question bears to 52.

means, subject to sub-paragraph (2), periods of industrial, professional or commercial experience associated with full-time study at the establishment but at a place outside the establishment, other than periods of— (a) unpaid service in a hospital or in a public health service laboratory;

means the financial year preceding the year in respect of which the resources of the student fall to be assessed and “current financial year” means the financial year which includes the first day of the year:

means the proportion which the number of weeks in the year for which the student in question attends the establishment bears to 30, except that where that proportion is greater than the whole it means the whole;

means Regulations made under section 1 of the Education Act 1962 and revoked either by regulation 6 or before the coming into force of these Regulations;

means a person who is 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 or a person who enjoys asylum in the United Kingdom in pursuance of a decision of Her Majesty’s government though not so recognised, 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) a full-time course of advanced further education or a comparable course outside England and Wales;

means, except in the case specified in paragraph (5), the last day of the month of October, February or June (according as the academic year of the course begins in the spring, the summer or the 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 in an establishment 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;

means, as respects any student, any year of a sandwich course which includes both periods of full-time study in the establishment and periods of experience;

means any award bestowed or grant paid by virtue of the Education Act 1962 or any comparable award or grant which is paid out of moneys provided by Parliament;

means a person upon whom an award has been bestowed under these Regulations or previous Awards Regulations;

has the same meaning as in section 32 of the Finance Act 1971;

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