{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-61", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-61.json", "legislation": "nisr/1987/459", "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987", "path": "regulation/61", "kind": "regulation", "number": "61", "heading": "Interpretation", "text": "In this Chapter,—\n\"a course of advanced education'' means—\n(a) a full-time course leading to a postgraduate degree or comparable qualification, a first degree or comparable qualification, a diploma of higher education, a higher national diploma, a higher national diploma of the Business & Technician Education Council or the Scottish Vocational Education Council or a teaching qualification; or\n(b) any other full-time course which is a course of a standard above ordinary national diploma, a national diploma of the Business & Technician Education Council or the Scottish Vocational Education Council, a general certificate of education (advanced level), a Scottish certificate of education (higher grade) or a Scottish certificate of sixth year studies;\n“contribution” means any contribution in respect of the income of any other person which a Minister of the Crown or an education authority takes into account in assessing the amount of the student's grant and by which that amount is, as a consequence, reduced;\n''covenant income'' means the income net of tax at the basic rate payable to a student under a Deed of Covenant by a person whose income is, or is likely to be, taken into account in assessing the student's grant or award;\n''education authority'' means a government department, an education and library board established under Article 3 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, a local education authority as defined in section 114(1) of the Education Act 1944 (interpretation), an education authority as defined in section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (interpretation), any body which is a research council for the purposes of the Science and Technology Act 1965 or any analogous government department, authority, board or body, of the Channel Islands, Isle of Man or any other country outside Northern Ireland;\n“grant” means any kind of educational grant or award and includes any scholarship, studentship, exhibition, allowance or bursary;\n''grant income'' means—\n(a) any income by way of a grant;\n(b) in the case of a student other than one to whom paragraph (c) refers, any contribution which has been assessed whether or not it has been paid;\n(c) in the case of a student to whom paragraph 1, 2 or 7 of Schedule 1 (lone parent or disabled student) applies, any contribution which has been assessed and which has been paid,\nand any such contribution which is paid by way of a covenant shall be treated as part of the student's grant income;\n''periods of experience'' has the meaning prescribed in regulation 3(1) of the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n''period of study'' means—\n(a) in the case of a course of study for one year or less, the period beginning with the start of the course to the end;\n(b) in the case of a course of study for more than one year, in the first or, as the case may be, any subsequent year of the course, the period beginning with the start of the course or, as the case may be, that year's start and ending with either—\n(i) the day before the start of the next year of the course in a case where the student's grant is assessed at a rate appropriate to his studying throughout the year, or, if he does not have a grant, where it would have been assessed at such a rate had he had one, or\n(ii) in any other case the day before the start of the normal summer vacation appropriate to his course;\n“sandwich course” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 3(1) of the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n''standard maintenance grant'' means—\n(a) except where paragraph (b) applies, in the case of a student attending a course of study at the University of London or an institution within the area comprising the City of London and the metropolitan police district, the amount specified for the time being in paragraph 2(2)(a) of Schedule 7 to the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 for such a student;\n(b) in the case of a student residing at his parents' home the amount specified in paragraph 3(2) of that Schedule;\n(c) in any other case, the amount specified in paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule other than in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) thereof;\n“student” means a person aged less than 19 who is attending a full-time course of advanced education or, as the case may be, a person aged 19 or over but under pensionable age who is attending a full-time course of study at an educational establishment; and for the purposes of this definition—\n(a) a person who has started on such a course shall be treated as attending it throughout any period of term or vacation within it, until the end of the course or such earlier date as he abandons it or is dismissed from it;\n(b) a person on a sandwich course shall be treated as attending a full-time course of advanced education or, as the case may be, of study;\n“year” in relation to a course, means the period of 12 months beginning on 1st January, 1st April or 1st September according to whether the academic year of the course in question begins in the spring, the summer or the autumn respectively.", "extent": null, "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f2", "text": "1944 c. 31 as amended by Article 3(22) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1974/595 and Article 4(1) of S.I. 1977/293" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f3", "text": "1980 c. 44" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f4", "text": "1965 c. 4" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f5", "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 420" } ], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "word omitted", "affecting": "nisr/2022/230", "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022" }, { "type": "word added", "affecting": "nisr/2022/230", "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022" }, { "type": "added", "affecting": "nisr/2022/230", "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2019/1027", "affecting_title": "The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Further Implementation etc.) Regulations 2019" }, { "type": "reg. 61 renumbered as reg. 61(1)", 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"https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1987/459/regulation/61", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:18:43.914608+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. 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