The Education Authority Bursaries (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made: 3rd July 1990

Laid before Parliament: 11th July 1990

Coming into force: 1st August 1990

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 49(3) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education Authority Bursaries (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st August 1990.

• (2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Education Authority Bursaries (Scotland) Regulations 1988[^f00002].

Amendments to principal Regulations

2

The following sub-paragraph shall be substituted for regulation 2(6)(a) of the principal Regulations:–

(a) he was in receipt of training in pursuance of training programmes and schemes operated from time to time by or on behalf of the Manpower Services Commission, the Training Commission or the Secretary of State; or

3

At the beginning of regulation 5(d) of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the words “at the date of the education authority receiving his application for a bursary”.

4

In regulation 5(e) of the principal Regulations–

• (a) the word “and” shall be deleted at the end of sub-paragraph (i);

• (b) in sub-paragraph (ii), the words “,other than in the British Islands,” shall be deleted and the word “and” shall be inserted at the end; and

• (c) the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (ii):–

(iii) has not been ordinarily resident in the British Islands throughout the 3 years immediately preceding the relevant date, save that this sub-paragraph shall not exclude from eligibility a person as to whom the education authority are satisfied that he has been so resident for any part of that period wholly or mainly for the purpose of recieving full-time education,

Signed

Ian Lang — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 3rd July 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education Authority Bursaries (Scotland) Regulations 1988. Regulation 2 is amended to specify those training programmes currently in operation. Regulation 5 is amended to enable a refugee (or the spouse or child of a refugee) to be eligible for a bursary if he has the appropriate status at the date of the education authority receiving his application. A further amendment to regulation 5 specifies that fees-only awards available to European Community students will not be available to persons who have been ordinarily resident in the British Islands throughout the 3 years preceding the relevant date in respect of the course in question.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 44.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1988/1042, as amended by S.I. 1988/1423 and 1989/1113.