# The Education (Mandatory Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1995, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which come into force on 1st June 1995, amend the Education (Mandatory Awards) (No. 2) Regulations 1993 and the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1994, the latter of which do not come into force until 1st September 1995.
They provide that a Career Development Loan shall be disregarded in calculating a student’s income for the purposes of determining his entitlement to a maintenance grant.
They also make provision for the payment of an older students allowance to a student attending a course starting after 1st September 1995 if he has immediately before starting that course attended a full-time course of further or higher education which he started before 1st September 1995, if he has earned £12,000 in the three years before the first year of the first course, and if has attained the age of 26 before the first year of the second course.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1240/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-mandatory-awards-amendment-regulations-1995/note
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