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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-83",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/312",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/83",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Payment of bursaries and grants for living and other costs and loans for living costs - general provisions",
  "text": "(1) Where a final assessment cannot be made on the basis of the information provided by the student, the Department may make a provisional assessment and payment of the support under Part 5 or Part 6.\n(2) Payments of support under Part 5 or Part 6 are to be made in such manner as the Department considers appropriate and it may make it a condition of entitlement to payment that the eligible student must provide it with particulars of a bank or building society account in the United Kingdom into which payments may be made by electronic transfer.\n(3) Subject to regulation 7, no support under Part 5 or Part 6 is due in respect of a payment period beginning after an eligible student has withdrawn from, abandoned or been expelled from his course.\n(4) In this regulation, “payment period” means a period in respect of which the Department pays the relevant support under Part 5 or Part 6 or would have paid such support if the eligible student had not withdrawn from, abandoned, been expelled from or been absent from his course.\n(5) Where an eligible student withdraws from, abandons or is expelled from his course on or after the relevant date, the Department must determine—\n(a) the amount of each bursary and grant for living and other costs for which the student qualifies that would be payable in respect of the relevant payment period if the student had not withdrawn from, abandoned or been expelled from the course (the “full amount”); and\n(b) how much of the full amount is due in respect of the period which runs from the first day of the relevant payment period up to and including the day on which the student withdraws, abandons or is expelled from the course (the “partial amount”).\n(6) In this regulation, the “relevant date” is the date on which the first term of the academic year in question actually begins.\n(7) If the Department has made a payment of a bursary or grant for living and other costs in respect of the relevant payment period before the point in that period at which the student withdraws from, abandons or is expelled from the course and that payment exceeds the partial amount of that grant—\n(a) it may treat the excess as an overpayment of that bursary or grant; or\n(b) if it considers that it is appropriate to do so it may extend the student’s period of eligibility in respect of that bursary or grant until the end of the relevant payment period and determine that the full amount of that grant is due in respect of that payment period.\n(8) If a payment of a bursary or grant for living and other costs in respect of the relevant payment period is due to be made or is made after the student withdraws from, abandons or is expelled from the course, the amount of that bursary or grant due is the partial amount unless the Department considers that it is appropriate to extend the period of eligibility in respect of that grant until the end of the relevant payment period and to determine that the full amount of that grant is due in respect of that payment period.\n(9) No support under Part 5 or Part 6 is due in respect of a payment period during any part of which an eligible student is absent from his course, unless in the opinion of the Department it would be appropriate in all the circumstances for support to be paid in respect of the period of absence.\n(10) In deciding whether it would be appropriate for support to be due under paragraph (9) the circumstances to which the Department must have regard include the reasons for the student’s absence, the length of the absence and the financial hardship which not paying all or part of the support would cause.\n(11) An eligible student is not to be considered absent from his course if he is unable to attend due to illness and his absence has not exceeded 60 days.\n(12) Where, after the Department has made any payment of support under Part 5 or Part 6, it makes a determination of the amount of a bursary or grant for living and other costs for which the student qualifies in respect of an academic year either for the first time or by way of revision of a provisional or other determination of that amount—\n(a) if the determination increases the amount of that bursary or grant for which the student qualifies it must pay the additional amount in such instalments (if any) and at such times as it considers appropriate;\n(b) if the determination decreases the amount of that bursary or grant for which the student qualifies it must subtract the amount of the decrease from the amount of that bursary or grant which remains to be paid;\n(c) if the amount of the decrease is greater than the amount of that bursary or grant remaining to be paid the latter amount is reduced to nil and the balance subtracted from any other grant for living and other costs for which the student qualifies in respect of the academic year;\n(d) any remaining overpayment is recoverable in accordance with regulation 84.\n(13) Where the Department has made any payment of support under Part 5 or Part 6 and a student who qualifies for a loan for living costs under Part 6 applies for such a loan or applies for an additional amount of loan for living costs in respect of an academic year, the Department may pay that loan or that additional amount of loan in such instalments (if any) and at such times as it considers appropriate as soon as is reasonably practicable after a satisfactory application has been received.\n(14) Where, after the Department has made any payment of loan for living costs for which a student qualifies in respect of an academic year under Part 6, it makes a determination that the amount of loan for living costs for which the student qualifies is less than the amount previously determined either by way of revision of a provisional determination or otherwise—\n(a) it must subtract such amount as is necessary to ensure that the student does not borrow an amount of loan for living costs which is greater than that for which he qualifies from any amount of loan for living costs which remains to be paid;\n(b) if the amount to be subtracted is greater than the amount of loan for living costs remaining to be paid, the latter amount is reduced to nil;\n(c) any remaining overpayment is recoverable in accordance with regulation 84.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.5.2007) by The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/195), regs. 1, 4(1)(a) (with reg. 4(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 83 in operation at 1.9.2006, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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