The Education (Student Loans) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 241

EDUCATION

The Education (Student Loans) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

9th July 2002

Coming into operation

1st August 2002

The Department for Employment and Learning(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 3(2) of and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990(2) and now vested in it(3) 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 Loans) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2002.

Amendment of the Education (Student Loans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

2.—(1) The Education (Student Loans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(4) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 3(1) in the definition of “the Islands” for the words “the Islands” substitute the word “Islands”.

(3) In regulation 6(1) to (4)(5) for each of the figures in the first column below wherever it appears there shall be substituted the corresponding figure in the second column below:

(1)(2)
£1,045£1,075
1,6851,725
1,4301,465
2,3102,365
1,3651,400
1,8701,915

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 9th July 2002.

L.S.

George O'Doherty

A senior officer of the

Department for Employment and Learning

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations, which come into operation on 1st August 2002, amend the Education (Student Loans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (“the principal Regulations”). The principal Regulations govern loans made under the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990, which are mortgage style repayment loans. Such loans are for the most part made to students who began their courses before 1st August 1998.

In addition to one minor amendment, these Regulations make one change of substance, in increasing the maximum amounts which may be lent to students in relation to an academic year in line with inflation (regulation 2(3)).

(1)

Formerly known as the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment; see the Department for Employment and Learning Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 c. 15

(2)

S.I. 1990/1506 (N.I. 11); as amended by S.I. 1996/274 (N.I. 1), Article 43 and Schedule 5 Part II, S.I. 1996/1918 (N.I. 15), Article 3 and the Schedule and S.I. 1998/258 (N.I. 1), Articles 3 to 6

(3)

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