# The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2003, Regulation 2: Definitions In these Regulations— “academic authority” means, in relation to an institution, the governing body, or other body having the functions of a governing body and includes a person acting with the authority of that body; “authority” means a local education authority; “award” includes— (i) either a fees only award or a full award bestowed under these Regulations; and (ii) any award bestowed under previous Awards Regulations in respect of a person’s attendance at a designated course the first year of which begins before 1st September 1998, or begins on or after that date if the person meets the conditions referred to in regulation 6(7); “Certificate in Education” includes a Teacher’s Certificate; “course”, “designated course”, “sandwich course” and other qualified references to courses have the meanings respectively assigned to them by regulation 4; “degree” means a degree awarded by a university, institution of higher education in the United Kingdom or the Council for National Academic Awards; “dependent” means wholly or mainly financially dependent; “employment” means full-time employment or part-time employment which, in a normal week, involves a significant number of hours of work and “employed” shall be construed accordingly, and for the purposes hereof the references to employment include references to the holding of any office and to any occupation for gain; “EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993; “EEA migrant worker” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 5; “European Community” means the area comprised by the member states of the European Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time; “European Economic Area” means the European Community and subject to the conditions laid down in the EEA Agreement the area comprised by the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway and the Principality of Liechtenstein; “European student” means a person who is a national of a member state of the European Community or the child of such a national who has not been ordinarily resident in the British Islands as described in regulation 13(1)(a) and (b) or who is not settled in the United Kingdom as described in regulation 13(1)(c); “fees only award” means an award bestowed only in respect of fees described in Schedule l; “full award” means an award bestowed in respect of both fees described in Schedule 1 and a maintenance grant; … “independent student” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 3; “institution” means an educational institution in the United Kingdom providing further or higher education or both, or providing a course which qualifies for funding under Part I of the Education Act 1994 ; “maintenance grant” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 17 “Metropolitan Police District” means the areas referred to in section 76(1) of the London Government Act 1963 as it had effect prior to its amendment by section 323 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999; … “overseas institution” means an educational institution outside the United Kingdom providing further or higher education or both; “previous Awards Regulations” means Regulations made under section 1 of the Education Act 1962 and revoked either by regulation 6 or before the coming into force of these Regulations; “refugee” means a person who is recognized by Her Majesty’s Government as a refugee within the meaning of the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 195l as extended by the Protocol thereto which entered into force on 4th October 1967 and any reference to the child of a refugee includes a reference to a person adopted in pursuance of adoption proceedings and a step-child; “sandwich course” and in relation to such a course “periods of experience”, “prescribed proportion”, “modified proportion” and “sandwich year” have the meanings respectively assigned to them by paragraph 1 of Schedule 5; “statutory award” means any award bestowed or grant paid by virtue of the Education Act 1962 or any comparable award, grant or other payment made in respect of attendance at a course which is paid out of moneys provided by Parliament; “student” means a person upon whom an award has been bestowed under these Regulations or previous Awards Regulations; “Swiss Agreement” means the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of Persons signed at Luxembourg on 21st June 1999 and which came into force on 1st June 2002; “university” means a university in the United Kingdom and includes a university college and a constituent college, school or hall of a university; “year”, in relation to a course, means the period of twelve months beginning on 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st September according as to whether the academic year of the course in question begins in the winter, the spring, the summer or the autumn respectively; and references to the first or the final year of a designated course shall be construed accordingly. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1994/regulation/2 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-mandatory-awards-regulations-2003/regulation-2 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.