{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-mandatory-awards-regulations-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-mandatory-awards-regulations-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1458",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-mandatory-awards-regulations-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of a student with dependants.\n(2) The dependants requirements of the student shall, subject to paragraphs 16 and 17, be–\n(a) if the student’s spouse holds a statutory award and in calculating payments under it account is taken of the spouse’s dependants requirement, one half of the amount determined in accordance with sub-paragraphs (3) and (4);\n(b) in any other case, the whole of the amount so determined.\n(3) The amount referred to in sub-paragraph (2) shall be the amount which is X−(Y−Z) where–\n(a) X is the aggregate of the relevant sums specified in sub-paragraph (4);\n(b) Y is the aggregate of the income of the student’s dependants;\n(c) Z is so much of the sum ascertained by multiplying£565 by the number of his dependants as does not exceed Y.\n(4) The relevant sums referred to in sub-paragraph (3) are–\n(a) except where the student has a spouse who is the holder of a relevant award,£1,455; and\n(b) in respect of each dependent child–\n(i) under the age of 11 immediately before the beginning of the academic year, or born during that year,£305;\n(ii) then aged 11 or over, but under 16,£615;\n(iii) then aged 16 or over, but under 18,£810;\n(iv) then aged 18 or over,£1,165;\nexcept that the only or eldest dependent child shall be disregarded for the purposes hereof if the student has neither an adult dependant nor a spouse who is, or but for paragraph 14(2) would be, a dependant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1458/schedule/2/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:38:36.041812+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}