{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-92",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-92.json",
  "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/92",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "92",
  "heading": "Disabled part-time students' allowances",
  "text": "(1) An eligible part-time student qualifies in accordance with this Part for a grant to assist with the additional expenditure which the Department is satisfied he is obliged to incur by reason of a disability to which he is subject in respect of his undertaking a designated part-time course (the “disabled part-time students' allowance”).\n(2) An eligible part-time student does not qualify for the disabled part-time students' allowance if the only paragraph in Part 2 of Schedule 1 into which he falls is paragraph 9.\n(3) An eligible part-time student does not qualify for the disabled part-time students' allowance unless the Department considers that he is undertaking the designated course in the United Kingdom.\n(4) Subject to the following paragraphs, the amount of disabled part-time students' allowance under this regulation is the amount that the Department considers appropriate in accordance with the student’s circumstances.\n(5) The amount of the disabled part-time students' allowance must not exceed—\n(a) £9,105 in respect of an academic year for expenditure on a non-medical personal helper;\n(b) £4,795 in respect of all the academic years during the period of eligibility for expenditure on major items of specialist equipment;\n(c) the additional expenditure incurred—\n(i) within the United Kingdom for the purpose of attending the institution;\n(ii) within or outside the United Kingdom for the purpose of attending, as a part of his course, any period of study at an overseas institution or for the purpose of attending the British Institute in Paris;\n(d) £1,200 in respect of an academic year for any other expenditure including expenditure incurred for the purposes referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) which exceeds the specified maxima.",
  "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. 92 in operation at 1.9.2006, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/312/regulation/92",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:45:48.766711+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."
}