Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 395

EDUCATION

Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

14th September 2004

Coming into operation

1st November 2004

The Department for Employment and Learning(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 50(1) and (2) and 134(1)(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(3) and now vested in it(4) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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(5).

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

Regulation 7

SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provision in principal Regulations	Existing Figure (£)	New Figure (£)
Schedule 5
Paragraph (i)	1,125	1,150
	550	560
Paragraph (iii)	1,050	1,075
Paragraph (v), (vi), (vii) and (ix)	550	560
Schedule 6, Part 1
Paragraph 2(2)	2,045	2,090
Paragraph 2(2)(a)	2,510	2,570
Paragraph 2(2)(b)	2,920	2,990
Paragraph 2(3)	1,665	1,705
Schedule 6, Part 2
Paragraph 5(2)(a)	48	49
Paragraph 5(2)(b)	71	73
Paragraph 5(2)(b)(i)	92	94
Paragraph 5(2)(b)(ii)	99	101
Paragraph 7(2)	270	275
Paragraph 9(2)(a)	11,280	11,550
Paragraph 9(2)(b)	4,460	4,565
Paragraph 9(2)(d)	1,490	1,525
Schedule 6, Part 3
Paragraph 12(3)	3,280	3,360
Paragraph 13(1)	2,280	2,335
Paragraph 13(1)(b)	3,280	3,360
Paragraph 13(2)(b)(i)	1,000	1,025
Paragraph 13(2)(b)(ii)	3,000	3,070
Paragraph 13(2)(b)(iii) and (iv)	4,000	4,095
Paragraph 13(2)(b)(v)	5,000	5,120
Paragraph 13(4)(a)	1,300	1,330
Paragraph 13(4)(b)	1,300	1,330
	1,250	1,280
Paragraph 14(5)(b)(i)	1,000	1,025
Paragraph 14(5)(b)(ii)	3,000	3,070
Paragraph 14(5)(b)(iii) and (iv)	4,000	4,095
Paragraph 14(5)(b)(v)	5,000	5,120
Paragraph 14(7)(b)(i)	1,000	1,025
Paragraph 14(7)(b)(ii)	3,000	3,070
Paragraph 14(7)(b)(iii) and (iv)	4,000	4,095
Paragraph 14(7)(b)(v)	5,000	5,120
Schedule 7, Part 1
Paragraph 1(1)(a)	900	920
Paragraph 1(1)(b)	4,250	4,350
Paragraph 1(1)(q)	3,420	3,500
Schedule 7, Part 2
Paragraph 4(1)	20,970	21,475
	83	85
Paragraph 4(2)(a)	6,910	7,075
Paragraph 6(2)(a)	2,415	2,475
Paragraph 6(2)(d) and (e)	1,895	1,940
Paragraph 6(2)(g)	975	1,000
Schedule 7, Part 3
Paragraph 8(2)	18,040	18,475
	83	85
	6,910	7,075
Schedule 8
Paragraph 2(2)(a)	1,960	2,005
	900	920
Paragraph 2(2)(b)	1,125	1,150
Schedule 9
Paragraph 4(a)	900	920

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations which come into operation on 1st November 2004 have effect on and from 1st September 2004 amend the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (“the principal Regulations”).

Retrospection is authorised by Article 50(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.

Regulation 4(a) changes “Swiss Agreement” to “Switzerland Agreement”. This is to ensure consistency throughout the principal Regulations. Regulation 4(b) inserts three new definitions.

Regulation 5 provides that the new payment rates prescribed in the Schedule to these Regulations shall only apply in relation to an academic term which commences on or after the 1st September 2004. Where an academic year starts before 1st September 2004, but ends after 1st September 2004, the old payment rates and the new payment rates shall be applied proportionally.

Regulation 6 specifies changes to the rates of fee awards in relation to courses at the University of Buckingham, the Guildhall School of Music and Heythrop College. Changes in relation to other fees and grants are provided for by regulation 7 and are specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(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)

As amended by S.I. 1993/2810 (N.I. 12): Article 50 and Schedule 4 Part II

(3)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3): Article 50(1) and (2) was repealed by Article 9 of, and the Schedule to, the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, (S.I. 1998/1760 (N.I. 14)), subject to the transitional and saving provisions in Part II of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998, (S.R. 1998 No. 460 (c. 22))

(4)

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

(5)

S.R. 2003 No. 459