{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/students-allowances-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/students-allowances-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1754",
  "legislation_title": "The Students' Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/students-allowances-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“allowance” means an allowance paid or to be paid under these Regulations;\n“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol thereto signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;\n“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;\n“employed” includes holding any office or any occupation for gain;\n“European Economic Area” means the area of the EEA States and includes those States at any time before the EEA Agreement comes into force in relation to them;\n“national of a member state of the European Community” means a person who is a national for the purposes of the Community Treaties of any member state of the European Economic Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time;\n“parent” includes step-parent;\n“qualifying day” in relation to a course of education for which an allowance is sought means–\n(a) as respects a course starting in the autumn term of any year, 30th June in that year;\n(b) as respects a course starting in the spring term of any year, 31st October in the year preceding that year; and\n(c) as respects a course starting in the summer term of any year, the last day of February in that year;\n“refugee” means a person who is recognised by Her Majesty’s Government as a refugee within the meaning of the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 as extended by the Protocol thereto which entered into force on 4th October 1967;\n“relevant date” in relation to a course of education for which an allowance is sought means–\n(a) as respects a course starting in the autumn term of any year, the earlier of 31st August in that year or the first day of that term;\n(b) as respects a course starting in the spring term of any year, the earlier of 31st December in the year preceding that year or the first day of that term; and\n(c) as respects a course starting in the summer term of any year, the earlier of 31st March in that year or the first day of that term.\n(2) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires, any reference–\n(a) to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations; and\n(b) in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in that regulation or Schedule, as the case may be.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmnd 2073."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Cmnd 2183."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Cmnd 9171."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Cmnd 3906 (Out of print: photocopies are available, free of charge, from the Students Awards Agency for Scotland, Gyleview House, 3 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9HH)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1049",
      "affecting_title": "The Education Authority Bursaries and Students' Allowances (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1754/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:39:43.052069+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."
}