Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Transfer of awards

1.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), if a student who holds an award for a specified course commences, on the recommendation of the academic authority, to attend at the institution a specified course other than the one in respect of whch the award is held, such award shall be transferred by the board at the request of the student so as to be held in respect of his attendance at the new course.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), if a student who holds an award for a specified course commences, with the written consent given on educational grounds of the academic authorities of both institutions concerned, to attend a specified course at another institution, such award shall be transferred by the board at the request of the student so as to be held in respect of his attendance at the new course.

(3) An award shall not be transferred unless—

(a) the recommendation or consent is given not later than four months after the end of the first year of the course in respect of which the award was originally made; or

(b) the board is satisfied, after consulting the academic authority or authorities concerned, that the fact that the requisite recommendation or consent is given after the expiry of the period specified in paragraph (a) is due only to the need to apply through a clearing admissions system; or

(c) the board, after consulting the academic authority or authorities concerned, is satisfied that the period which the student will ordinarily require to complete the new course will expire not later than the period which he would now so require for the completion of the course in respect of which the award is held, ignoring—

(i) in each case, periods of experience which are part of a sandwich course; and

(ii) in the case of the course in respect of which the award is held, any period during which the student would now be required by the academic authority concerned to repeat part of the course, if the board would not make any payment for maintenance in respect of that period under regulation 19(1).

(4) A board may refuse to transfer an award if, after consulting the academic authority concerned, it is satisfied that when the student applied for such transfer he did not intend to complete the course to which such application related.