# Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998, Fees

Extent: N.I.

The fees referred to in regulation 12 are—
(a) the aggregate of any fees for admission, registration or matriculation (including matriculation exemption) any sessional or tuition fees, any composition fee, any graduation fee and, in the case of a course referred to in sub-paragraph (iv), any fee in respect of the validation of the course (in each case excluding any element thereof representing or attributable to any such fee as is mentioned in sub-paragraphs (b) or (c), or to maintenance) subject to the following maxima:
(i) in the case of a course undertaken at the Pontifical College, Maynooth or at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland or in the case of a course not covered by any other sub-paragraph, £1,000;
(ii) for courses undertaken at a university or relevant institution of higher education in the Republic of Ireland other than in pursuance of a transitional award in the case of a course undertaken at the Pontifical College, Maynooth or at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland:
(a) £1,855 in the case of a course which is not covered by any other sub-paragraph;
(b) £2,770 in the case of a course with a substantial laboratory or workshop component, or a course leading to the Postgraduate Certificate in Education, or the pre-clinical elements of courses in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science;
(c) £4,985 in the case of the clinical training elements of courses in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science;
(iii) in pursuance of a transitional award, in the case of a course undertaken at the Pontifical College, Maynooth, or at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland—
(a) £855 in the case of a course which is not covered by any other sub-paragraph;
(b) £1,770 in the case of a course with a substantial laboratory or workshop component, or the pre-clinical elements of courses in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science;
(c) £3,985 in the case of the clinical training elements of courses in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science;
(iv) subject to sub-paragraph (v), in respect of courses at institutions which are neither maintained nor assisted by grants paid out of public funds, £935;
(v) in the case of a course at the University of Buckingham, four instalments of £585; in the case of a course at the Guildhall School of Music, three instalments of £1,200, in the case of a course at Heythrop College, three instalments of £590 and in the case of the Royal Agricultural College, three instalments of £545;
(vi) in the case of a course of initial teacher training involving periods of full-time study in aggregate less than 10 weeks' in the relevant year, £500;
(vii) in respect of any academic year of a sandwich course during which one or more periods of experience is undertaken but any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, £500;
(viii) in respect of any academic year of an international course where periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, £500;
(ix) in respect of the final year of a course referred to in sub-paragraph (i) which is ordinarily required to be completed after less than 15 weeks' attendance, £500;
(x) in respect of the final year of a course referred to in sub-paragraph (v) which is ordinarily required to be completed before the first, the second or in the case of a course at the University of Buckingham, the third of the dates 1st January, 1st April, 1st July and 1st September which follow the beginning of that year, the first, the first two, or the first three of the instalments which would be payable respectively if this paragraph did not apply;
(xi) in respect of not more than one academic year of a course referred to in sub-paragraph (vii) or (viii) where the periods of full-time study at the institution are greater than 10 weeks, but in respect of that year and any previous such years the aggregate of any one or two periods of attendance which are not periods of full-time study at the institution (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks, or where the institution is the University of Oxford or Cambridge, 25 weeks, £500;
(xii) in the case of a full-time course at the Union Theological College, Belfast, the Edgehill College, Belfast, the Irish Baptist College, Belfast, or the Belfast Bible College, Belfast, the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity, Bachelor of Theology or the Diploma in Theology of Queen’s University, Belfast, a first and second instalment of £618 and a third instalment of £619;
(b) three instalments of college fees or dues at the universities of Cambridge, Durham, Kent, Lancaster, Oxford and York (excluding any element thereof representing or attributable to any such fee as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) or to maintenance), or, if the final year of the course is ordinarily required to be completed before the first or second of the dates 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st September which follow the beginning of that year, one or two instalments of those fees or dues respectively;
(c) any fees charged by an external body in respect of examinations or the validation of the course or otherwise charged by such a body whose requirements must (for the purposes of the course) be satisfied, or any fees attributable to fees so charged, but in the case of fees in respect of the validation of the course, only where the fees are charged by a body which does not have the power to award a degree or by the University of Buckingham.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/273/schedule/5/crossheading/fees (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/students-awards-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/schedule-5/crossheading-fees
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