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  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987",
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  "heading": "Calculation of grant income",
  "text": "(1) The amount of a student's grant income to be taken into account shall, subject to paragraph (2), be the whole of his grant income.\n(2) There shall be disregarded from the amount of a student's grant income any payment—\n(a) intended to meet tuition fees or examination fees;\n(b) intended to meet the cost of special equipment for a student on a course which began before 1st September 1986 in architecture, art and design, home economics, landscape architecture, medicine, music, ophthalmic optics, orthoptics, physical education, physiotherapy, radiography, occupational therapy, dental hygiene, dental therapy, remedial gymnastics, town and country planning and veterinary science or medicine;\n(c) intended to meet additional expenditure incurred by a disabled student in respect of his attendance on a course;\n(d) intended to meet additional expenditure connected with term time residential study away from the student's educational establishment;\n(e) on account of the student maintaining a home at a place other than that at which he resides while attending his course but only to the extent that his rent or rates is not met by housing benefit;\n(f) on account of any other person but only if that person is residing outside of the United Kingdom and there is no applicable amount in respect of him;\n(g) intended to meet the cost of books and equipment (other than special equipment) or if not so intended an amount equal to £210 towards such costs;\n(h) intended to meet travel expenses incurred as a result of his attendance on the course.\n(3) A student's grant income shall be apportioned—\n(a) subject to paragraph (4), in a case where it is attributable to the period of study, equally between the weeks in that period;\n(b) in any other case, equally between the weeks in the period in respect of which it is payable.\n(4) In the case of a student on a sandwich course, any periods of experience within the period of study shall be excluded and the student's grant income shall be apportioned equally between the remaining weeks in that period.",
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