Regulation 21 Members of religious orders

(1)

This regulation shall apply where the student is a member of a religious order (“the Order”) unless the course is a course of teacher training designated under regulation 10(1)(d)(iii) and regulation 22 applies.

(2)

The payment in respect of maintenance under regulation 17(1)(b) in the case of a student upon whom an old award has been bestowed shall be the sum specified as appropriate in paragraph (3) or (4):

Provided that—
1. (a)
  
  where the course is a sandwich course, the payment in respect of a sandwich year shall be the prescribed proportion of the sum otherwise payable in respect of maintenance and no payment shall be made in respect of a year which includes no periods of full-time study;
2. (b)
  
  where the course is a part-time course of teacher training designated under regulation 10(1)(d)(ii), the payment shall be three-quarters of the sum so specified.

(3)

In the case of a student who resides at his parents' home or in a house of the Order, the appropriate sum shall be £770.

(4)

In the case of any other student, the appropriate sum shall be £1,050 except that—

(a)

if he attends a course at the University of London or at an institution within the area comprising the City of London and the Metropolitan Police District it shall be £1,315;

(b)

if he attends as part of his course an overseas institution, it shall be—

£1,515 if the institution is in a high cost country; or
£1,135 if the institution is in any other country.

(5)

In this regulation “prescribed proportion” shall have the same meaning as in Schedule 5 to these Regulations.