The Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

2.—(1) The Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004(1) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) Column 2 of Table A in Schedule 1 (Modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987), is amended as follows—

(a) in the modifications of regulation 62 (Calculation of grant income) of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(2), for the entry relating to the insertion of paragraph (2B) substitute the following—

“(2B) There shall also be disregarded from a student’s grant income—

(a) any sum by way of maintenance grant available to a student under regulation 58 of the Education (Student Support)(No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009(3) which is not taken into account in the calculation of the maximum amount of a loan for living costs under regulation 66 of those Regulations;

(b) any sum by way of maintenance grant available to a student under regulations 57 to 59 of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2009(4) which is not taken into account in the calculation of the maximum amount of a loan for living costs under Chapter 2 of Part 6 of those Regulations; and

(c) any sum by way of maintenance grant available to a student under regulations 38 or 39 of the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education)(Wales) Regulations 2009(5) which is not taken into account in the calculation of the maximum amount of a loan for living costs under regulations 46 to 48 of those Regulations.”; and

(b) in the modification of regulation 66A (Treatment of student loans) of those Regulations, in the first entry, for “Student Support Information Guide 2009-2010” substitute “Student Support Information Guide 2010-2011(6)”.

(1)

S.R. 2004 No. 91; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2004 Nos. 156 and 162, S.R. 2005 Nos. 107 and 386, S.R. 2006 Nos. 136, 190 and 333, S.R. 2007 Nos. 264 and 437, S.R. 2008 Nos. 39, 292 and 391, S.R. 2009 Nos. 52, 151 and 329 and S.R. 2010 No. 201

(2)

S.R. 1987 No. 459

(3)

S.R. 2009 No. 373

(4)

S.I. 2009/1555

(5)

S.I. 2009/2737 (W. 235)

(6)

The Guide is available on the Student Awards Agency for Scotland website at www.saas.gov.uk