{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/students-awards-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/students-awards-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1995/1",
  "legislation_title": "Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/students-awards-regulations-northern-ireland-1995",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Previous attendance at a course",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of regulation 19(2) and (5) and paragraphs I (d),2(b) and (c) and 3 of Schedule 2—\n(a) a person shall not be regarded as having previously attended a course—\n(i) unless he has previously both attended and held a statutory award in respect of either more than one course or one course for a period longer than twenty weeks;\n(ii) by reason only of his having attended from its beginning the course to which his application for an award relates;\n(b) any reference to a person having attended a course shall be construed as a reference to his having done so before or after 1st September 1994.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall affect the duty of the board to make an award to a person—\n(a) in respect of his attendance at a course for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education, the Art Teacher’s Certificate or the Art Teacher’s Diploma (or for a qualification comparable with any such certificate or diploma) unless he has previously attended such a course or successfully completed a course which—\n(i) was for the degree of Bachelor of Education or a comparable academic award of either an institution or the Council for National Academic Awards; and\n(ii) was approved as a course for the initial training of teachers for the purposes of Article 70;\n(b) in respect of his attendance at any full-time course of initial training as a teacher of one academic year’s duration, or a comparable part-time course, not within sub-paragraph (a), unless he has for more than three years held a statutory award in respect of his attendance at a full-time course of higher education or comparable course outside Northern Ireland;\n(c) in respect of his attendance at a course which—\n(i) does not exceed two year’s duration;\n(ii) is for the degree of Bachelor of Education or a comparable academic award of either an institution or the Council for National Academic Awards; and\n(iii) is approved as a course for the initial training of teachers for the purposes of Article 70;\nunless he has previously attended—\n(i) a course for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education, the Art Teacher’s Certificate or the Art Teacher’s Diploma (or for a qualification comparable with any such certificate or diploma); or\n(ii) a course (of any length) such as described in sub-paragraph (a)(i)or (ii).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/1/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:43:25.682345+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."
}