The National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Amendments to Schedule 1 to the 2003 Regulations: students from Scotland

2.  In column 2 of Table A in Schedule 1 to the 2003 Regulations(1) (modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987), in the modification of—

(a) regulation 62 of the 1987 Regulations(2) (calculation of grant income), in the inserted paragraph (2C), after sub-paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa) a young students’ bursary or an independent students’ bursary paid under regulation 4(1)(c) of the Students’ Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 2007(3);”;

(b) regulation 66A of the 1987 Regulations(4) (treatment of student loans), for the substituted paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) A student loan (including any notional amount treated as part of the loan in accordance with paragraph (1A)) is to be treated as income, unless it is a hardship loan.

(1A) In the case of a student (S) who is paid a loan under the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2007(5), that loan is to be treated as including a notional amount that is the difference (if there is one) between—

(a) the maximum amount that would potentially be payable under the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 to an eligible student in the same academic year and studying on the same course as S; and

(b) the amount that is paid to S under the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2007.”.

(1)

Table A has been amended by S.I. 2005/26, 2006/1065 and 2171, 2007/1975 and 2590, 2008/2868, 2009/1599, 2010/620 and 1727, 2011/1587 and 2012/1650.

(2)

Amendments have been made to regulation 62 by S.I. 1988/663, 1992/468 and 2155, 1996/1944, 1999/1935, 2000/1444 and 1922, 2001/2319, 2002/1589, 2003/455, 2004/1708, 2005/574, 2007/1632, and 2009/583 and 1575 .

(3)

S.S.I. 2007/153; regulation 4 has been amended by S.S.I. 2007/503, 2008/206 and 2012/72.

(4)

Regulation 66A was inserted by S.I. 1990/1549 and has been amended by: S.I. 1999/1935, 2000/1922, 2001/2319, 2002/1589, 2007/1632, 2008/2767 and 2009/583, 1575 and 3152.

(5)

S.S.I. 2007/154.