- academic authority
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;
- adult dependant
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);
- approved childcare provider
means a childcare provider within the meaning of the Tax Credit (New Category of Childcare Provider) Regulations 1999, who has been approved in accordance with those regulations;
- attendance
means attendance for the purposes of study or teaching practice.
- authority
means a local education authority;
- award
includes either a fees only award or a full award bestowed under these Regulations and any award bestowed under previous Awards Regulations which is an old award;
- Certificate in Education
includes a Teacher’s Certificate;
- child
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;
- current financial year
means the financial year which includes the first day of the year;
- degree
means a degree awarded by a university, institution of higher education in the United Kingdom or the Council for National Academic Awards;
- dependant
means, in relation to a student, his dependent child, his spouse or an adult dependant, subject however to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3);
- 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;
- European Community
means the area comprised by the member states of the European Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time;
- European Economic Area
means the European Community and subject to the conditions laid down in the EEA Agreement the area comprised by the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway, and the Principality of Liechtenstein;
- European student
means a person who is a national of a member state of the European Community or the child of such a national who has not been ordinarily resident in the British Islands as described in regulation 13(1)(a) and (b) or who is not settled in the United Kingdom as described in regulation 13(1)(c);
- fees only award
means an award bestowed only in respect of fees described in Schedule l;
- financial year
means subject to sub-paragraph (2) the period of 12 months for which the income of the student’s parent is computed for the purposes of the income tax legislation which applies to it;
- flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers
means a course of initial teacher training, which has been approved by the Teacher Training Agency, the length and pattern of which is determined by the student’s experience and training requirements.
- full award
means an award bestowed in respect of both fees described in Schedule 1 and a maintenance grant;
- 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.
- high cost country
means … Japan and Switzerland;
- income
means income for the year from all sources (reduced by income tax and social security contributions) but disregarding— (a) any pension, allowance or other benefit paid by reason of a disability or incapacity to which the person is subject;
- independent student
has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 3;
- institution
means an educational institution in the United Kingdom providing further or higher education or both, or providing a course which qualifies for funding under Part I of the Education Act 1994;
- maintenance grant
has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 17;
- Metropolitan Police District
means the areas referred to in section 76(1) of the London Government Act 1963 as it had effect prior to its amendment by section 323 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;
- 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.
- old award
means an award bestowed under previous Awards Regulations which is an old award within the meaning of the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1998;
- overseas institution
means an educational institution outside the United Kingdom providing further or higher education or both;
- parent
includes a guardian, any other person having parental responsibility for a child and any person having care of a child, and “child” shall be construed accordingly.
- periods of experience
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;
- 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 institution bears to 30, except that 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 recognized 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;
- registered childcare provider
means a person who acts as a child minder or provides day care and is registered within the meaning of section 79F of the Children Act 1989, (grant or refusal of registration of child minders and persons providing day care for young children).
- relevant award
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;
- relevant school year
means:
- residual income
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;
- sandwich course
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;
- sandwich 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, other than— (a) unpaid service in a hospital or in a public health service laboratory or with a Primary Care Trust in the United Kingdom;
- statutory award
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;
- 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;