Education (Student Support) (2000 Regulations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2000 No. 254

EDUCATION

Education (Student Support) (2000 Regulations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made

8th August 2000

Coming into operation

1st September 2000

The Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 3(1) and (2) and 8(4) of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(1) and now vested in it(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Student Support) (2000 Regulations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2000.

Amendment of the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

2.—(1) Schedule 3 to the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(3) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) At the end of paragraph 4(3) there shall be added “or, if that amount is different in respect of each child, the lower or (as the case may be) lowest such amount”.

(3) In paragraph 6(2) after paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(aa) where the first academic year of the student’s course begins before 1st September 2000, the gross amount of any sums paid as interest (including interest on a mortgage) in respect of which relief is given under the Income Tax Acts in respect of a loan to the parent, or where the parent’s income is computed as for the purposes of the income tax legislation of another member State, the gross amount of any such sums in respect of which relief would be given if that legislation made provision equivalent to the Income Tax Acts;”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment on 8th August 2000.

L.S.

Robson Davison

A senior officer of the

Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend Part II of Schedule 3 (parental contribution) to the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000. They insert a new paragraph (aa) in paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 3 to provide, in the case of a student whose course begins before 1st September 2000, for the gross amount of loan interest on which relief is given under the Income Tax Acts to be deducted in determining the parent’s residual income for the purposes of ascertaining the parental contribution under the Regulations (regulation 2(3)).

A consequential amendment is made to paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 3 (regulation 2(2)).

(1)

S.I. 1998/1760 (N.I. 14)

(2)

By S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 5(b) and Part II of Schedule 3

(3)

S.I. 2000/213