- academic authority
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;
- authority
means a local education authority;
- award
includes an award bestowed under previous Awards Regulations;
- British Islands
means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man;
- Certificate in Education
includes a Teacher’s Certificate;
- current financial year
means the financial year which includes the first day of the year:
- dependent
means wholly or mainly financially dependent;
- employment
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;
- establishment
means a university or establishment of higher education in the United Kingdom, and “establishment offurther education” excludes a university but includes an establishment which also provideshigher education;
- European Community
means the area comprised by the member states of the European Economic Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time;
- gross income
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.
- higher-cost country
means Austria,Belgium, the Republic of Ireland, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and theUnited States of America;
- independent student
has the meaning assigned to it by Regulation 3;
- maintenance grant
has the meaning assigned to it by Regulation 17;
- modified proportion
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.
- parent
includes a guardian or any other person having actual custody of a minor.
- periods of experience
means such periods of residence for which he is in gainful employment.
- preceding financial year
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:
- prescribed proportion
means the proportion which the number of weeks in the year for which the student in question attends the establishment bears to 30, except where that proportion is greater than the whole it means the whole;
- previous Awards Regulations
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;
- refugee
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;
- sandwich course
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;
- sandwich 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;
- statutory award
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;
- student
means a person upon whom an award has been bestowed under these Regulations or previous Awards Regulations;
- university
means a university in the United Kingdom and includes a university college and a constituent college, school or hall of a university;