# Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998, 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 the 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 spouses 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 living or is such a student as is described in paragraph 3(b), (c), (d) or (e);
(d) any pension, allowance or other benefit paid by reason of a disability to which the student is subject, paid by any state authority or agency, national, regional or local, by an employer or any former employer, or by any other person, which is not subject to income tax under the Income tax Acts or, where the student’s income is subject to the tax legislation of another member State, which would not be subject to tax under that legislation if it made provision equivalent to those Acts;
(e) any income received as a reservist with the armed forces of a state of which the student is a national, 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 Schedule 5 and 6;
(i) any benefit or allowance paid to the student for the benefit of a child of his or of whom he has custody or care or for whom he provides accommodation, by any state authority or agency, national, regional or local;
(j) any payment made to the student in pursuance of an order of a competent court for the benefit of a child who is not his child of whom he has custody or care or for whom he provides accommodation;
(k) any benefit or allowance paid to the student to meet or defray the cost of housing by any state authority or agency, national, regional or local;
(l) any means tested benefit or allowance paid to the student by any state authority or agency, national, regional or local, in respect of a period during which he was not available for work for any reason;
(m) the first £3,030 of any pension, allowance or benefit paid for the benefit of the student and not referred to in any other sub-paragraph, including any pension paid to the student as a widow, child or dependent;
(n) any payments made to the student under the programmes of the European Community known as COMETT and Leonardo Da Vinci;
(o) 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;
(p) any payment made to the student out of access funds held by the institution at which he attends his course.
(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 6 and, in pursuance of paragraph 12(1) of that Schedule, the payment is taken into account in determining the spouses 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).
(4) Where the student receives income in a currency other than sterling the value of the income shall be—
(a) if the student purchases sterling with the income the amount of sterling the student receives for it, otherwise
(b) the value of the sterling which the income would purchase using the rate for the month in which it is received as published by the Office for National Statistics in “Financial Statistics”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/273/schedule/7/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/students-awards-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/schedule-7/paragraph-1
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