The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1991

PART I ordinary maintenance

1.—(1) The requirements of the student referred to in regulation 18(1)(a) shall include his requirement for ordinary maintenance during–

(a) any period while he is attending the course; and

(b) the Christmas and Easter vacations;

and the amount of such requirement (“ordinary maintenance requirement”) shall be determined in accordance with this Part of this Schedule.

(2) Where a student’s ordinary maintenance requirements are different in respect of different parts of a year, his ordinary maintenance requirements for that year shall be the aggregate of the proportionate parts of those differing requirements.

2.—(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of–

(a) any student who, on the recommendation of the academic authority, resides in the establishment or in a hostel or other accommodation administered by the academic authority;

(b) any independent or married student who does not reside at his parents' home;

(c) any other student who does not reside at his parents' home, except where he can in the opinion of the authority conveniently attend the course from his parents' home and the authority, after consultation with the academic authority, consider that in all the circumstances the ordinary maintenance requirement specified in paragraph 3(2) would be appropriate; and

(d) any student residing at his parents' home whose parents by reason of age, incapacity or otherwise cannot reasonably be expected to support him and in respect of whom the authority are satisfied that in all the circumstances the ordinary maintenance requirement specified herein would be appropriate.

(2) In the case of such a student the ordinary maintenance requirement shall be £2,265 except that–

(a) where he is attending a course at the University of London or at an establishment within the area comprising the City of London and the metropolitan police district, it shall be £2,845; and

(b) where he is attending, for at least one term and as a necessary part of his course, an institution in a country outside the United Kingdom, it shall (notwithstanding anything in sub-paragraph (a)) be–

• £3,570 if that country is a highest-cost country;

• £3,130 if that country is a higher-cost country;

• £2,695 if that country is a high-cost country; and

• £2,265 in any other case.

3.—(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of any other student, that is to say, in the case of–

(a) a student residing at his parents' home, except where the conditions specified in paragraph 2(1)(d) are satisfied;

(b) a student whose case falls within the exception to paragraph 2(1)(c).

(2) In the case of such a student the ordinary maintenance requirement shall be £1,795.