Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Payments by boards

12.—(1) Subject to regulations 11, 16, 17, 19 and 20 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 4, the board shall in respect of each year pay in pursuance of an award—

(a) in respect of fees, an amount equal to the aggregate of any fees payable in respect of the student as are described in Schedule 6;

(b) in respect of maintenance—

(i) except in a case in which regulations 11(2), 15 or 16 apply, a grant calculated in accordance with regulation 13;

(ii) in a case in which regulation 15 applies (subject to regulation 15(3)) an amount determined in accordance with that regulation,

and so much of the grant or amount referred to in this sub-paragraph as the board considers appropriate shall be treated as being in respect of the Christmas and Easter vacations.

(2) Subject to regulations 17, 19 and 20 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 4, a board may, in respect of a student who resides in an institution other than a university, pay the amount charged by the institution for his board and lodging.

(3) Where the academic year of a student’s course began in the winter or the spring of 1992 then, notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, payments in pursuance of an award to that student in respect of the year beginning in 1st January 1992 or, as the case may be, 1st April 1992 shall be the aggregate of—

(a) two-thirds or, as the case may be, one-third of the payments in pursuance of that award which would have fallen to be made in respect of that year under the Regulations referred to in regulation 2 had they not been revoked; and

(b) one-third or, as the case may be, two-thirds of the payments which would have fallen to be made in respect of the year beginning on 1st September 1992 under these Regulations had the academic year of that course begun in the autumn of 1992.

(4) In the case of a course at the University of Buckingham beginning in the winter, spring or summer of 1992 then, notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, payments in pursuance of an award in respect of the year beginning on 1st January, 1st April or 1st July (as the case may be) shall be the aggregate of—

(a) three-quarters, one-half or one-quarter (as the case may be) of the payments which would have fallen to be made in respect of that year under the Regulations referred to in regulation 2 had they not been revoked, and

(b) one-quarter, one-half or three-quarters (as the case may be) of the payments which would have fallen to be made in respect of the year beginning on 1st September 1992 under these Regulations had the academic year of the course begun in the autumn of 1992.