Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Act 2001

The graduate endowment

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Graduate endowment: use of income

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Financial support for students

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• (1) The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c.44) shall be amended as follows.

• (2) In paragraph (f) of section 73 (power of Scottish Ministers to pay allowances), for the word “attending” there shall be substituted—

(i) undertaking; or (ii) who have undertaken

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• (3) In subsection (2) of section 73B (power to require amounts payable under loans to be paid directly to institutions), for the word “attending” there shall be substituted “ undertaking ”.

• (4) In subsection (1) of section 73D (maximum amounts of certain allowances: application of section), the words “attendance on” are repealed.

Council tax: students to be exempt from liability

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• (1) The Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14) shall be amended as follows.

• (2) In subsection (4) of section 75 (exemption of certain persons from liability to pay council tax)—

• (a) after the word “discount” there shall be inserted “ either ”; and

• (b) after the word “impaired)” there shall be inserted “ or, being a student, by virtue of paragraph 4 of that Schedule ”.

• (3) In subsection (2) of section 77 (exemption of certain spouses from liability to pay council tax)—

• (a) after the word “discount” there shall be inserted “ (a) ”; and

• (b) after the word “impaired)” there shall be inserted

; or (b) being a student, by virtue of paragraph 4 of that Schedule.

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Short title and commencement

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• (1) This Act may be cited as the Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Act 2001.

• (2) Section 4 of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may appoint by order made by statutory instrument; and any such order may make such transitional or savings provision as appears to the Scottish Ministers to be necessary or expedient.

The graduate endowment

Council tax: students to be exempt from liability

Short title and commencement

Editorial notes

[^c887656]: S. 5(2) power exercised: 1.6.2001 appointed by S.S.I. 2001/191, art. 2

[^key-cb62d0b2f26fe6c2b1096eca3037cc6f]: S. 1 repealed (5.4.2008) by Graduate Endowment Abolition (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 3), ss. 1(1), 7(1)

[^key-58ba9b4c32049d4e8630a69cd85219cd]: S. 2 repealed (5.4.2008) by Graduate Endowment Abolition (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 3), ss. 1(1), 7(1)