The State Awards (State Bursaries for Adult Education) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1983

Made: 16th August 1983

Laid before Parliament: 30th August 1983

Coming into Operation: 20th September 1983

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 3(c) and 4(2) of the Education Act 1962[^f00001], hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1

These Regulations may be cited as the State Awards (State Bursaries for Adult Education) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation on 20th September 1983.

2

In these Regulations a reference to the principal Regulations is a reference to the S.I. 1979/333 State Awards (State Bursaries for Adult Education) (Wales) Regulations 1979.

3

In Regulation 2(2) of the principal Regulations (Interpretation) after the word “regulation” in each place where it occurs there shall be added the words “or a Schedule”.

4

In Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (Revocations and transitional provisions) for the words “the Schedule” there shall be substituted the words “Schedule 1”.

5

At the beginning of Regulation 5(1) of the principal Regulations (Authority to bestow state bursaries for adult education) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to the provisions of Schedule 2 hereto relating to eligibility for state awards and”.

6

After the Schedule to the principal Regulations, which shall stand as Schedule 1, there shall be added the Schedule set out in the Appendix hereto.

Signed

Nicholas Edwards — Secretary of State for Wales — 16th August 1983

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the provisions of the State Awards (State Bursaries for Adult Education) (Wales) Regulations 1979 relating to the bestowal of state awards on persons ordinarily resident in Wales other than awards in respect of post-graduate and comparable courses.

The general arrangements made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of his functions under the Regulations of 1979 have provided that a state award should not be bestowed on a person, who, throughout the three years preceding his application for an award has not been ordinarily resident in the British Islands. These arrangements are relaxed or modified in the case of applicants for awards who are refugees or are the children of workers from the European Community.

The present Regulations make express provision in that behalf and further provide that a state award shall not be bestowed on a person if his residence in the British Islands (or the European Community, as appropriate) has, during any part of the three year period preceding his application, been wholly or mainly for purposes of receiving full-time education or undertaking post-graduate research otherwise than in the course of employment.

The Regulations also extend the existing arrangements relating to the eligibility of refugees for awards to their spouses and children. They take account of the provisions of Article 7 of EEC Regulation 1612/68 relating to the access of workers from the European Community to training in vocational schools by providing that such persons and the children of workers from the European Community are not subject to the requirement imposed by the Regulations that a person cannot receive a state award if he is receiving full-time education.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: the relevant provisions, as amended, are set out in Schedule 5 to the Education Act 1980 (c.20).