The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made: 18th July 2005

Coming into operation: 1st September 2005

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PART 1 — GENERAL

Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Revocation, savings and transitional provisions

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PART 2 — ELIGIBILITY

Eligible students

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Designated courses

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Period of eligibility

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Transfer of status

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PART 3 — APPLYING FOR SUPPORT AND PROVISION OF INFORMATION

Applications for support

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Time limits

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Information

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PART 4 — GRANTS FOR FEES

Qualifying conditions for grants for fees

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Amount of grants for fees

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PART 5 — GRANTS FOR LIVING COSTS

General qualifying conditions for grants for living costs

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Grants for disabled students' living costs

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Grants for students who have left care

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Grants for dependants — general

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Grants for dependants — adult dependants' grant

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Grants for dependants — childcare grant

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Grants for dependants — parents' learning allowance

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Grants for dependants — calculations

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Grants for dependants — interpretation

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Grants for travel

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Higher Education Bursaries

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PART 6 — LOANS FOR LIVING COSTS

Qualifying conditions for loans for living costs

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Maximum amount of loans

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Additional amount of loans

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Interest

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Insolvency

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PART 7 — FINiANCIAL ASSESSMENT

Calculation of contribution

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Application of contribution

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PART 8 — PAYMENTS

Payment of grants for fees

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Payment of grants and loans for living costs

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Overpayments

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PART 9 — SUPPORT FOR PART-TIME COURSES

Eligible part-time students

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Designated part-time courses

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Period of eligibility

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Assistance for part-time courses

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Grants for disabled part-time students' living costs

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Applications for support

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Information

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Transfer of status

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Conversion of status

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Payment of support to eligible part-time students

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Payment of grants for fees

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Overpayments

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PART 10 — SUPPORT FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

Eligible postgraduate students

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Designated postgraduate courses

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Period of eligibility

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Transfer of status

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Applications for support

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Information

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Amount of grants

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Payment of grants

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Overpayments

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PART 11 — SUPPLEMENTARY

Modifications applying while the Civil Partnership Act 2004 is not in force

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SCHEDULE 1 — REVOCATION

Regulations revoked	References
The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 285
The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002	S.R. 2002 No. 272
The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003	S.R. 2003 No. 298
The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003	S.R. 2003 No. 370
The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003	S.R. 2003 No. 339
The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004	S.R. 2004 No. 254
The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004	S.R. 2004 No. 323
The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004	S.R. 2004 No. 517
The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005	S.R. 2005 No. 298
The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005	S.R. 2005 No. 323

SCHEDULE 2 — ELIGIBLE STUDENTS

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SCHEDULE 3 — DESIGNATED COURSES

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SCHEDULE 4 — INFORMATION

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SCHEDULE 5 — FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT

Definitions

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Independent eligible student

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Household income

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Calculation of eligible student’s residual income

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Calculation of parent’s residual income

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Calculation of eligible student’s partner’s residual income

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Calculation of parent’s partner’s residual income

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Calculation of contribution

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Split contributions

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SCHEDULE 6 — RELEVANT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 18th July 2005.

David McAuley — A senior officer of the — Department for Employment and Learning

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly known as the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) and the Department for Employment and Learning Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 c. 15

[^f00002]: S.I. 1998/1760 (N.I. 14) as amended by the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21), section 147(3)(a) and (b) and the Higher Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1116 (N.I. 5))

[^f00003]: S.R. 1999 No. 481 see Article 5(b) and Schedule 3 Part II

[^f00004]: S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)

[^f00005]: S.R. 1998 No. 298

[^f00006]: S.R. 1999 No. 192, as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 370

[^f00007]: S.R. 2000 No. 213, as amended by S.R. 2000 No. 254 and S.R. 2000 No. 296

[^f00008]: S.R. 2001 No. 277

[^f00009]: S.R. 2002, as amended by S.R. 2003 No. 121

[^f00010]: S.R. 2003 No. 298, as amended by S.R. 2003 No. 239

[^f00011]: S.R. 2004 No. 254

[^f00012]: S.R. 2004 No. 517

[^f00013]: S.R. 2005 No. 298

[^f00014]: S.R. 2005 No. 323

[^f00015]: Cmnd. 2073

[^f00016]: Cmnd. 2183

[^f00017]: The Teacher Training Agency was established under section 1 of the Education Act 1994 (c. 30)

[^f00018]: S.R. 2003 No. 459, as amended by S.R. 2004 No. 395

[^f00019]: Cmnd. 9171

[^f00020]: Cmnd. 3906 (Out of print; photocopies are available, free of charge, from the Student Support Division, Department for Education and Skills, Mowden Hall, Staindrop Road, Darlington, DL3 9BG)

[^f00021]: 1980 c. 44; section 73(f) was amended by the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30), section 29(1) and the Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 6), section 3(2) and section 74 was amended by the Self Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39), Schedule 10, paragraph 8(17). The functions of the Department were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)

[^f00022]: S.I. 1990/1506 (N.I. 11) as amended by S.I. 1996/1274 (N.I. 1) Article 43 and Schedule 5 Part II; S.I. 1996/1918 (N.I. 15), Article 3 and the Schedule and S.I. 1998/258 (N.I. 1), Articles 3 to 6

[^f00023]: 1990 c. 6, repealed by the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30), Schedule 4

[^f00024]: 1998 c. 30

[^f00025]: Cm. 4909

[^f00026]: 1971 c. 77; amended by the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61), section 39 and Schedule 4

[^f00027]: O.J. No. L257, 19.10.1968, p. 2 (O.J./SE 1968 (II) p. 475)

[^f00028]: S.R. 2001 No. 285, as amended by S.R. 2002 No. 272, S.R. 2003 No. 370, S.R. 2004 No. 323

[^f00029]: 2004 c. 33

[^f00030]: S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)

[^f00031]: 1968 c. 46; section 63 was amended by the National Health Services Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Schedule 4, paragraph 124 and Schedule 5, the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, paragraph 45 and Schedule 16, the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), Schedule 16, paragraph 26(2) and Schedule 17, the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1 and 2 and Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 19(3), the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 17, the Family Practitioner Committees (Consequential Modifications) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/39), Article 6(1), the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 20, section 25(2) and Schedule 3, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 13, paragraph 74(1) and (2), the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule1, paragraph 95(1) and (2), the Local Government Reorganisation (Wales) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1008), the Schedule, paragraph 1, and the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 1(4)

[^f00032]: S.I. 1992/580, amended by S.S.I. 2002/2423 and S.S.I. 2003/401

[^f00033]: 1992 c. 13; section 65(3A) was amended by the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30), section 27

[^f00034]: “fees” is defined in Article 2(1) of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

[^f00035]: S.R. 1997 No. 312

[^f00036]: ERASMUS is part of the European Community action programme SOCRATES; O.J. No. L28, 3.2.2000, p. l

[^f00037]: S.I. 1999/2263, amended by S.I. 2001/2893

[^f00038]: S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)

[^f00039]: S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1); Article 10 was amended by the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/429 (N.I. 2)) Article 3(8)

[^f00040]: 1977 c. 49; Section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1997 was substituted by section 1 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 c. 17

[^f00041]: Section 11(1) was substituted by section 65(1) of and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 c. 8: section 11(3) was amended by section 2(1) of and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 c. 17

[^f00042]: 1978 c. 29; section 2 was amended by the Health and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 7, paragraph 1, and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 28 and Schedule 9, paragraph 19(1)

[^f00043]: S.I. 1996/274 (N.I. 1)

[^f00044]: 2002 c. 21

[^f00045]: S.I. 1999/3110

[^f00046]: S.I. 1995 No. 755 (N.I. 2)

[^f00047]: 1992 c. 7, as amended by Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12)), Articles 3 to 5, 7, 8, 10 to 12 and Schedules 1 and 2

[^f00048]: S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22); Article 59A was inserted by paragraph 164 of Schedule 9 to the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/755) (N.I. 2)); the relevant Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 438

[^f00049]: S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)

[^f00050]: S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2); Articles 34A, 34C, 35A and 35B were inserted by the Children (Leaving Care) Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 c. 11 which will come into operation on 1st September 2005

[^f00051]: S.I. 1980/51; amended by S.I. 1989/596 and S.I. 1999/3177

[^f00052]: 1974 c. 39

[^f00053]: S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19); Article 283 was amended by the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order1995/3213 (N.I. 22), Schedule 1. paragraph 11

[^f00054]: 1986 c. 45; section 307 was amended by the Enterprise Act 202 (c. 40), section 261. Section 310 was amended by the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26), section 122 and Schedule 3, paragraph 15, the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), section 18 and Schedule 2, paragraph 2 and the Enterprise Act 2002, sections 259 and 278 and Schedule 26

[^f00055]: S.I. 1992/580, amended by S.S.I. 2002/423 and S.S.I. 2003/401

[^f00056]: S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15) Schedules 2 and 3; see also Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)), Schedule 8 Part IV

[^f00057]: 1950 c. 29 (N.I.) Section 1(1) was substituted and sub-sections 1(A), 1(B) and 1(C) inserted by Article 3 of the Employment and Training (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/1087 (N.I. 10))

[^f00058]: S.I. 1992/580

[^f00059]: 1992 c. 13; section 65(3A) was amended by the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30), section 27

[^f00060]: 1971 c. 77; amended by the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61), section 39 and Schedule 4

[^f00061]: O.J. No. L257, 19.10.1968, p. 2 (O.J./SE 1968 (II) p. 475)

[^f00062]: 1988 c. 1; section 273 was amended by the Finance Act 1988 (c. 39), Schedule 3, paragraph 10. Amendments to section 273 made by the Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), section 281 and Schedule 35 do not come into force until 6th April 2006. Section 619 was amended by the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), section 170 and the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), section 135 and Schedule 21. Section 639 was amended by the Finance Act 2000 (c. 17), Schedule 13. Sections 619 and 639 are repealed by the Finance Act 2004, section 326 and Schedule 42 with effect from 6th April 2006 subject to the transitional provisions and savings in Schedule 36 to the Finance Act 2004

[^f00063]: “Financial Statistics” (ISSN 0015-203X)

[^f00064]: S.R. 2003 No. 459

[^f00065]: S.I. 1986/1594 (N.I. 3)

[^f00066]: 1968 c. 46; section 63 was amended by the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 58), Schedule 7, the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Schedules 4 and 5, the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), Schedules 16 and 17, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 17, the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 20, section 25(2) and Schedule 3, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 13, the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, the Local Government Reorganisation (Wales) (Consequential Amendments No. 2) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1008), the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), Schedule 5, the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2469), Schedule 1, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), Schedules 4, 11 and 14, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Commencement (No. 2) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/288), Article 7, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/480), Article 6 and the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/957), the Schedule

Editorial notes

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