Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

PART 1 GENERAL

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2004 and shall have effect on and from 1st September 2004.

2.  In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(1).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3.  The principal Regulations shall be amended as provided by regulations 4 to 7.

4.  In regulation 2 –

(a) for “Swiss Agreement” there shall be substituted “Switzerland Agreement”;

(b) after the definition of “Metropolitan Police District” there shall be inserted –

““new academic term” means any academic term beginning on or after 1st September 2004;

“new payment” means a payment made under these Regulations as amended by the Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004;

“old payment” means a payment which would have been made under these Regulations if they had not been amended by the Students Awards (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004.”

5.  In regulation 18 –

(a) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted –

“(3) The payment to be made in relation to any new academic term shall be a new payment, and the payment in relation to any other academic term shall be an old payment, and a payment in relation to any year shall be calculated accordingly.”;

(b) paragraph (4) shall be omitted.

6.  For paragraph (iv) of Schedule 5, there shall be substituted –

“(iv) in the case of a course at the University of Buckingham, four instalments of £676, in the case of a course at the Guildhall School of Music, a first and second instalment of £1,383 and a third instalment of £1,384; and in the case of a course at Heythrop College, a first and second instalment of £682 and a third instalment of £681.”

7.  The figures in the third column of the table in the Schedule shall be substituted for the figures in the second column where they appear in the provisions of the principal Regulations which are set out opposite to them in the first column.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 14th September 2004.

L.S.

David McAuley

A senior officer of the

Department for Employment and Learning