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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/students-awards-regulations-northern-ireland-1991/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/students-awards-regulations-northern-ireland-1991/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1991/508",
  "legislation_title": "Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/students-awards-regulations-northern-ireland-1991",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to section 29(3)(a) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 and to the definition of “award”, an award made in pursuance of the Regulations revoked by regulation 2 before the coming into operation of these Regulations, in so far as it could have been made m pursuance of these Regulations, shall for the purposes thereof, be treated as having been so made.\n(2) Where an award was bestowed on a student under Article 50(3) (“the discretionary award”) in respect of a course to which Articles 50(1) and 50(2) did not then apply but the course becomes or has become a specified course and an award within the meaning of these Regulations is or has been bestowed on the student in respect of that course, then if the discretionary award continues to be payable it shall be disregarded in calculating the students income for the purposes of regulation 13(1)(b) and for the purposes of regulation 16; but payments on account of the mandatory award in respect of fees and in respect of maintenance for any period shall be respectively reduced or extinguished by those on account of the corresponding element of the discretionary award.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1991/508/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:59:32.993534+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."
}