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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-mandatory-awards-regulations-1990/schedule-2/paragraph-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1628",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-mandatory-awards-regulations-1990",
  "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 £615 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, £1,525; 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, £320;\n(ii) then aged 11 or over, but under 16, £640;\n(iii) then aged 16 or over, but under 18, £845;\n(iv) then aged 18 or over, £1,215;\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": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/827",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Mandatory Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1991/827",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Mandatory Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
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      "affecting": "uksi/1991/827",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Mandatory Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1628/schedule/2/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:09:28.171780+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."
}