The State Awards (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1983

Made: 24th June 1983

Laid before Parliament: 7th July 1983

Coming into Operation: 1st August 1983

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 3(b) and (c) and 4 of the Education Act 1962[^f00001], I hereby make the following Regulations:—

1

These Regulations may be cited as the State Awards (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation on 1st August 1983.

2

In these Regulations a reference to the principal Regulations is a reference to the State Awards Regulations 1978[^f00002].

3

In Regulation 2(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) after the word “Regulation”, in the last two places where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words “or Schedule” .

4

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

5

At the beginning of Regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations (authority to bestow awards) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to the provisions of Schedule 2 hereto relating to eligibility for state awards,”.

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

Keith Joseph — Secretary of State for Education and Science — 24th June 1983

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the provisions of the State Awards Regulations 1978 relating to the bestowal of state awards.

The general arrangements made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of his functions under the Regulations of 1978 have provided that a state award should not be bestowed on a person who, on applying for an award, is not ordinarily resident in England and Wales and, throughout the three years preceding his application, 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 the children of workers from the European Community.

The present Regulations make express provision in that behalf and further provide that the 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.

They also extend the existing arrangements relating to the eligibility of refugees for awards to their spouses and children and take account of the provisions of Article 7 of E.E.C. Regulation 1612/68 relating to the access of workers from the European Community to training in vocational schools.

Footnotes

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

[^f00002]: the amending instrument is not relevant to the subject matter of these Regulations.

[^f00003]: OJ No. L257, 19.10.68, p.2 (OJ/SE 1968 (II), p. 475).