Regulation 36 InterpretationI1

In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires–

• “contribution” means any contribution in respect of the income of any other person which a Minister of the Crown or an education authority as defined in regulation 46 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987^f1 takes into account in assessing the amount of the student’s grant and by which the amount is, as a consequence, reduced;

• “course of study” means any full-time or part-time course of study or sandwich course whether or not a grant is made for attending it;

• “covenant income” means the gross income payable to a full-time student under a Deed of Covenant by his parent including any sum deducted from the gross amount for tax;

• “grant” means any kind of educational grant or award and includes any scholarship, studentship, exhibition, allowance or bursary F1but does not include a payment derived from funds made available by the Secretary of State for the purpose of assisting students in financial difficulties under section 100 of the Education Act 1944, sections 131 and 132 of the Education Reform Act 1988 or section 73 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980;

• “grant income” means–

  1. (a)

     any income by way of a grant;

  2. (b)

     any contribution whether or not it is paid;

• F2“last day of the course” means the date on which the last day of the final academic term falls in respect of the course in which the student is enrolled;

• “period of study” means–

  1. (a)

     in the case of a course of study for one year or less, the period beginning with the start of the course F3and ending with the last day of the course;

  2. (b)

     in the case of a course of study for more than one year, in the first or, as the case may be, any subsequent year of the course, F4other than the final year of the course, the period beginning with the start of the course or, as the case may be, that year’s start and ending with either—

     1. (i)

        in a case where the student’s grant is assessed at a rate appropriate to his studying throughout the year, or, if he does not have a grant, where it would have been assessed at such a rate had he had one, the day before the start of the next year of the course, or

     2. (ii)

        in any other case, the day before the start of the recognised summer vacation appropriate to his course;

  3. (c)

     F5in the final year of a course of study of more than one year, the period beginning with that year’s start and ending with the last day of the course;

• “periods of experience” has the meaning as is prescribed in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 5 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1988^f2;

• “sandwich course” has the meaning as is prescribed in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 5 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1988;

• “standard maintenance grant” means the amount specified in paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1988 other than in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) thereof;

• F6“student” means a person, other than a person in receipt of a training allowance, who is attending a course of study at an educational establishment including a registered student and a person who has started on such a course shall be treated as attending it throughout any period of term or vacation within it, until F7the last day of the course or such earlier date as he abandons it or is dismissed from it.

• “year” in relation to a course means the period of 12 months beginning on 1st January, 1st April or 1st September according to whether the academic year of the course in question begins in the spring, the summer or the autumn respectively.