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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fees-and-awards-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3042",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fees-and-awards-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“award” means a fees award or a maintenance award or both as the context may require;\n“education” includes post-graduate research otherwise than in the course of employment;\n“education authority” means a local education authority;\n“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;\n“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;\n“European Economic Area” means the area comprised by the member States of the European Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time and, subject to the conditions laid down in the EEA Agreement, by the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland, the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden and, from such date as the EEA Council, established by Article 89 of the EEA Agreement, determines that that Agreement shall enter into force as regards the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Principality of Liechtenstein;\n“fees” includes charges however described;\n“fees award” means an award in respect only of any fees payable by the student other than any element of those fees representing or attributable to charges for his maintenance;\n“the Islands” means the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man;\n“maintenance award” means any award other than a fees award;\n“national of a member State of the European Community” means a person who is a national for the purposes of the Community Treaties of any member State of the European Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time;\n“parent”, in relation to a student, includes a guardian and any other person having actual custody of the student during his minority;\n“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 hereto 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;\n(2) In these Regulations a reference to a person’s son or daughter includes a reference to a person adopted in pursuance of adoption proceedings, a step-child and an illegitimate child of whom the person concerned is the mother or in whose case he has admitted paternity or been adjudged the putative father.\n(3) For the purposes of these Regulations an area which—\n(a) was not part of the area comprised by the member States of the European Community or by the European Economic Area, but\n(b) at any time before or after these Regulations come into force has become part of one or other or both of those areas\nshall be considered to have always been part of the European Economic Area.\n(4) Notwithstanding section 11 of the Interpretation Act 1978 section 3(2) of the Education (Fees and Awards) Act 1983 (references to the United Kingdom to include references to the Islands) shall not apply for the purpose of the interpretation of these Regulations.\n(5) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a regulation, Part or Schedule is a reference to a regulation or Part of these Regulations or to a Schedule thereto, a reference in a regulation or Schedule to a paragraph is a reference to a paragraph of that regulation or Schedule and a reference in a paragraph to a sub-paragraph is a reference to a sub-paragraph of that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmd. 9171."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Cmnd. 3906 (Out of print: photocopies are available, free of charge, from Higher Education Branch, Awards and Loans Group, Room 1A3, the Department for Education, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BT)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1640",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Fees and Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}