The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made: 17th July 2020

Coming into operation

The Department for the Economy [^f00001] in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 3 and 8(4) of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998[^f00002] makes the following Regulations.

PART 1 — GENERAL

Citation, commencement and application

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and come into operation on 7th August 2020.

• (2) The following regulations apply in relation to the provision of support to a student in relation to an academic year which begins on or after 1st August 2020, whether or not anything done under these regulations is done before, on, or after that date.

PART 2 — AMENDMENT OF THE EDUCATION (STUDENT SUPPORT) (No.2) REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2009

Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

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The Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009[^f00003] are amended in accordance with regulation 3.

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In regulation 25(14)[^f00004] (amount of the fee loan)—

• (a) in sub-paragraph (b)(i) for ‘£4,275’ substitute ‘£4,395’.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for the Economy on 17th July 2020.

Ms Heather Cousins — A senior officer of the Department for the Economy

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amends the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009/373 (“the Student Support Regulations”).

Regulation 3 corrects an omission of a figure from the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and increases this figure in line with inflation.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department for Employment and Learning; see Article 6(1)(c) of the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 76)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1998/1760 (N.I. 14). Article 3 was amended by the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c.21), section 147(3)(a) and (b), the Student Loans (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001, (c.2 (N.I.)), s.1(1), the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c.1), Schedule 6, the Finance Act 2003, (c.14), s. 147(4), the Higher Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2005, (S.I. 2005/1116 (N.I. 5)), Articles 11 and 12 and the Schedule, and by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2013, (S.I. 2013/1881), Schedule 1

[^f00003]: S.R. 2009 No. 373, amended by S.R. 2010 No. 383, S.R. 2012 Nos. 62 and 398, S.R. 2013 Nos. 128 and 223, S.R. 2014 Nos. 97 and 309, S.R. 2016 No. 21, S.R. 2017 No. 7, S.R. 2017 No.43, S.R. 2018 No. 35, S.R. 2019 No.35, S.R 2019 No. 102 and S.R. 2020 No. 79.

[^f00004]: Regulation 25(14) was inserted by S.R. 2019 No.35.