# Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, Paragraph 1: Calculation of student’s income

Extent: N.I.

(1) In calculating the student’s income for the purposes of regulation 13(1)(b) there shall be taken into account his income (reduced by income tax and social security contributions) from all sources, but there shall be disregarded the following resources—
(a) the first £800 of any income other than income of a kind mentioned in the following provisions of this sub-paragraph and other than any sum treated as income under sub-paragraph (3);
(b) the first £3,865 of any income by way of—
(i) an award made to the student in respect of the course (in pursuance of a sponsorship scheme or otherwise) not being an award made in pursuance of Article 50 or 51; and
(ii) in the case of a student released by his employer to attend the course, any payments made by that employer;
(c) in the case of a student for whose benefit any income is applied or any payments are required to be applied as described in paragraph 5(5)—
(i) the whole of that income or those payments if a parental contribution ascertained in accordance with Part II or a spouse’s contribution ascertained in accordance with Part III is applicable (at whatever amount including nil that contribution is ascertained to be), or
(ii) the first £1,810 of that income or those payments if such a contribution would be applicable but for the fact that the student has no parent living or is such a student as is described in paragraph 3(b), (c), (d), (e) or (f);
(d) any disability pension not subject to income tax;
(e) any income received as a reservist with the armed forces or in the Royal Irish Regiment or in the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve;
(f) remuneration for work done during any year of the student’s course;
(g) in the case of a student in whose case a parental contribution is by virtue of Part II applicable (at whatever amount including nil that contribution is ascertained to be) any payment which is made under covenant by a parent by reference to whose income that contribution falls to be ascertained;
(h) any payment made for a specific educational purpose otherwise than to meet such fees and such requirements for maintenance as are specified in Schedules 6 and 7;
(i) child benefit;
(j) any income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 or any transitional addition, personal expenses addition or special transitional addition payable under Part III of the Income Support (Transitional) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;
(k) any incapacity benefit, attendance allowance, severe disablement allowance or disability living allowance under sections 30A, 64 to 67, 68, 71 to 76 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 resectively, or any mobility supplement or constant attendance allowance provided for in an order made under section 12(1) of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977;
(l) any housing benefit granted to him in pursuance of a scheme under section 122(1)(d) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 or a scheme under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;
(m) any allowance payable to him by an adoption agency in accordance with regulations made pursuant to Article 59A of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987;
(n) any guardian’s allowance to which he is entitled under section 77 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;
(o) in the case of a student with whom a child has been placed by a Health and Social Services Board or a Health and Social Services Trust, under Article 27(2)(a) of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, any payment made to him in pursuance of that Article;
(p) any payment made to the student in pursuance of an order made under Article 15 of and Schedule 1 to the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 in respect of a person who is not his child or any assistance given by a Health and Social Services Board or Health and Social Services Trust pursuant to Articles 35 and 36 of that Order;
(q) any payments made to the student under the programmes of the European Community known as COMETT and Leonardo Da Vinci;
(r) any payments made to the student under the action scheme of the European Community for the Mobility of University Students known as ERASMUS or the European Community programme for foreign language competence known as LINGUA;
(s) the first £3,030 of any pension other than one of the kind mentioned at head (d), however described, and including any such pension paid to the student as a widow, child or dependant;
(t) any payment made to the student in pursuance of the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990;
(u) any payment made to the student out of access funds held by the institution at which he attends his course;
(v) any payment made to the student as a “Career Development Loan” in pursuance of section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973.
(2) In the case of a student who makes any payment in pursuance of an obligation incurred before the first year of his course, in calculating his income for the purposes of regulation 13(1)(b) there shall be deducted therefrom—
(a) if, in the opinion of the board, the obligation had been reasonably so incurred, an amount equal to the payment in question;
(b) if, in its opinion, only a lesser obligation could have been reasonably so incurred, such correspondingly lesser amount (if any) as appears to it appropriate,
except that no deduction shall be made from the income of a married student where the student’s spouse is a dependant for the purposes of Part III of Schedule 7 and, in pursuance of paragraph 13(1) of that Schedule, the payment is taken into account in determining the spouse’s income.
(3) In a case where the student is the parent or step-parent of an award holder in respect of whom a contribution is ascertained under Part II so much of the amount (if any) by which the contribution is reduced under paragraph 4(3) of that Part as the board considers just shall be treated as part of the student’s income for the purposes of regulation 13(1)(b).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/361/schedule/8/paragraph/1 (the official version)
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