The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1993

means, in relation to an institution, 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 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 a local education authority;

includes either a fees only award or a full award bestowed under these Regulations and any 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 a degree awarded by a university, institution of higher education in the United Kingdom 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 of any office and to any occupation for gain;

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

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 relevant territory throughout the period of three years before the commencement of his course, but who is not entitled to a full award by virtue of regulation 7;

means an award bestowed only in respect of fees described in Schedule 1;

means an award bestowed in respect of both fees described in Schedule 1 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 the financial year there mentioned.

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

means Austria, Belgium,Hong Kong, 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 (reduced by income tax and social security contributions) but disregarding child benefit, any attendance allowance, mobility allowance or disability living allowance under section 35, 37A or 37ZA of the Social Security Act 1975 or under section 64, 72 or 73 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 or any mobility supplement or constant attendance allowance provided for in an order made under section 12(1) of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 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—

includes an “overseas institution”.

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

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 institution 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 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 higher education or a comparable course outside England and Wales;

means the last day of the month of October, February, April, or June (according as the academic year of the course begins in the winter, the spring, the summer or the autumn respectively) preceding the beginning of the course.

means the territory comprising the European Community and, as respects any period prior to the unification of the Federal Republic of Germany, the former German Democratic Republic;

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 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;

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

means any award bestowed or grant paid by virtue of the Education Act 1962 or any comparable award, grant or other payment made in respect of attendance at a course 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 835(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.

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