Regulation 17 Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

in paragraph (1), after “which”, insert “the”;

after paragraph (3), add—

“(4)

This paragraph makes provision for fee loan and distance learning fee loan where a student (“A”) transfers under paragraph (1)—

(a)

no payment in respect of any fee loan must be made in respect of any instalment period beginning after the date on which A became an eligible distance learning student;

(b)

any fee loan to which A was entitled under Part 4 immediately before A became an eligible distance learning student is ignored in determining the amount of distance learning fee loan to which A may be entitled in respect of that year under this Part;

(c)

where the designated distance learning course into which A transfers continues in the same quarter of the same academic year of the designated course from which A transferred, the maximum amount of distance learning fee loan to which A would, apart from this regulation, be entitled to borrow in connection with undertaking a designated distance learning course in respect of that academic year is reduced by one third where A became an eligible distance learning student in the second quarter of the academic year and by two thirds where A became such a student in a later quarter of the academic year; and

(d)

where the academic year of the designated distance learning course into which A transfers begins on a later date than the academic year of the designated course from which A is transferring, the maximum amount of distance learning fee loan to which A would be entitled to borrow in connection with that academic year, provided that the student qualifies for a distance learning fee loan in respect of that year, is the lesser of –

(i)

£3,022.50; and

(ii)

the fees payable by the student in connection with that year,

minus any grant paid under regulation 109(1)(a) in connection with that year.”.