Regulation 17 Assisted studentsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of these Regulations, no payment under regulation 12 shall be made to a person in respect of any year in respect of which he receives such payments as are mentioned in paragraph (2) amounting to not less than the aggregate of—

(a)

such fees payable by him as are described in Schedule 5 and if they are payable to an institution which is maintained or assisted by recurrent grants out of public funds, which do not exceed the maxima referred to therein; and

(b)

his requirements for maintenance ascertained in accordance with—

(i)

Part I of Schedule 6;

(ii)

paragraphs 5 and 6 of Part II of that Schedule; and

(iii)

Parts III and IV of that Schedule; and

(c)

the amounts specified in regulation 12(3),

irrespective of whether any maintenance grant would in fact be payable in his case by virtue of any other provision in these Regulations.

(2)

The payments referred to in paragraph (1) are the aggregate payments received by the person—

(a)

in pursuance of any award, bursary or other payment made to him in respect of the course (other than an award made under these Regulations or previous awards regulations, or out of access funds held by the institution at which he attends his course); and

(b)

if he is in gainful employment, by way of remuneration (reduced by income tax and social security contributions) paid in respect of any period for which he has leave of absence from that employment or is relieved of his normal duties in the course of that employment for the purpose of attending the course,

except that, if the person’s course is a part-time course of teacher training described in paragraph (c) in the definition of “course of initial teacher training” in regulation 3(1) and some or all of his periods of attendance are periods of part-time attendance, any payments by way of remuneration shall be disregarded.

(3)

Where a person receives such payments as are mentioned in paragraph (2) in a currency other than sterling the value of a payment shall be—

(a)

if the person purchases sterling with the payment the amount of sterling the person receives for it, otherwise

(b)

the value of the sterling which the payment would purchase using the rate for the month in which it is received as published by the Office for National Statistics in ‘Financial Statistics’.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 17 in operation at 1.9.1998, see reg. 1