{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-student-support-eligibility-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-student-support-eligibility-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/20",
  "legislation_title": "The Further Education (Student Support) (Eligibility) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-student-support-eligibility-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Education\nMade 6th February 2025\nComing into operation- 28th February 2025\nThe Department for the Economy in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 3(1), 3(2) and 8(4) of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department for Employment and Learning; see Article 6(1)(c) of the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 76). Article 5(b) and Part II of Schedule 3 to the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481) transferred functions under the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 from the Department of Education to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment. The Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment was renamed the Department for Employment and Learning by 2001 c.15 (N.I.), section 1, and following the dissolution of that department by the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.)), section 1(10), its functions under the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 were transferred to the Department for the Economy by S.R. 2016 No. 76, Article 6(1)(c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1760 (N.I. 14), articles 3(1) and (2) were amended by the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c.21), section 147(3)(a) and (b) respectively."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/20/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:52.985462+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."
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