The Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Part I Introductory and Commencement

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998.

(2) In this Order—

“the 1986 Order” means the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1);

“the 1990 Order” means the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990(2);

“the 1996 Order” means the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(3);

“the 1998 Order” means the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(4);

“the 1998 Regulations” means the Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(5); and

“Schedule 1 course” means any other course which is referred to in Schedule 1 to the 1990 Order.

(3) In this Order, other expressions which are also used in the 1998 Regulations have the same meaning as in those Regulations.

(4) For the purposes of Article 4(d), a course is similar to another course if the subject matter of one course is in part the same as the subject matter of the other course and, where the offer of a place was on a course which is still offered, the other course is at the same institution.

Provisions coming into operation

2.  Subject to Part II, the following provisions of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 shall come into operation on 1st September 1998, that is to say Article 9 and in the Schedule the repeals relating to—

(a) the 1990 Order;

(b) the 1996 Order; and

(c) the 1998 Order.

(1)

1986 No. 594 (N.I. 3); as amended by S.I. 1993/2810 (N.I. 12) Art. 50(1) and Schedule 4

(2)

1990 No. 1506 (N.I. 11)

(3)

1996 No. 1918 (N.I. 15)

(4)

1998 No. 258 (N.I. 1)

(5)

S.R. 1998 No. 273 as amended by S.R. 1998 No. 300