Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the 1999 Regulations” means the Education (Grants) (Dance and Drama) (England) Regulations 1999^f1;

• “academic year” means the period from 1st September in one year to 31st August in the following year;

• “award student” means an existing award student or a new award student;

• “course of higher education” means a course of any description mentioned in Schedule 6 to the Education Reform Act 1988^f2;

• “existing award student” means a student who became an award student by virtue of the 1999 Regulations;

• “fees” has the same meaning as in section 28 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998^f3;

• “governing body” in relation to a relevant institution includes any person or body of persons responsible for the management of the institution;

• “new award student” means, subject to regulations 3 to 5, a student of a description mentioned in Part II of Schedule 1 who has been selected as such by a relevant institution to follow a relevant course at that institution on the basis of high ability in, or aptitude for, dance or drama as the case may be, as demonstrated at an audition, in respect of whom a period of award has been specified and who (unless the student is selected under regulation 4(1)) has, before the beginning of the course—

  1. (a)

     reached the age of 16 in the case of a dance course; or

  2. (b)

     reached the age of 18 in the case of any other relevant course;

• “the prescribed amount” means the amount prescribed for the time being by regulations made under section 22(2)(b) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 as the maximum amount of grant at the highest level available for an academic year in respect of fees payable in connection with attendance at a course of higher education at an institution which is maintained or assisted by recurrent grants out of public funds^f4;

• “relevant course” mean a course starting on or after 1st September 2000 other than a course of higher education; and

• “relevant institution” means an institution specified in the first column of the Table in Schedule 2^f5.