Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Amendment of the Principal Regulations

12.—(1) Schedule 7 (Resources) shall be amended as provided by paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In paragraph 1—

(a) for sub-paragraph (1)(c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) any grant to facilitate teacher training paid to the student under Part 2 of the Education Act 2002 or section 78 of the 2005 Act, any payment made in respect of the student’s training as a teacher by an institution to which grants, loans or other payments for that purpose are provided under section 78 or 86 of the 2005 Act or under section 65(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (3) after “European student”, there shall be inserted “or a category 2 European student”.

(3) For paragraph 4(2), there shall be substituted—

“(2) Where a contribution is ascertained in respect of more than one child of the student’s parent the aggregate of the contributions shall not exceed the contribution that would be ascertained if only one child held such an award or, if that amount is different in respect of each child, the lower, or as the case may be, lowest such amount.

(2A) The amount or, where a contribution is ascertained in respect of more than one child of the student’s parent, the aggregate amount of the parental contribution ascertained under this Part shall in no case exceed £7,250.”.

(4) For paragraph 4(4) to (6), there shall be substituted—

“(4) Subject to sub-paragraphs (5) and (6), for any year in which a statutory award under these Regulations, the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 or section 63 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (and no other statutory award) is held by more than one child of the student’s parent, the parental contribution payable in respect of the student shall be an amount equal to the aggregate of the contributions ascertained in accordance with this Part divided by the number of children of his parent who hold a relevant statutory award.

(5) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), if, as a result of the apportionment under sub-paragraph (4), any part of the parental contribution ascertained in accordance with this Part would not be applied in respect of the student’s statutory award, the remainder of the contribution shall be applied—

(a) first in relation to the smallest statutory award (or equally to each such award) to which the contribution may be applied; and

(b) then to the remaining statutory award to which the contribution may be applied or, if there is more than one remaining statutory award to which the contribution may be applied, equally to each such award.

(6) If, after apportioning the remaining parental contribution equally under sub-paragraph (5)(b)—

(a) any amount of the parental contribution ascertained under this Part still has not been applied; and

(b) there remains one or more statutory awards to which the contribution may be applied,

the balance of the contribution shall be applied to the remaining statutory award or awards, in increasing order of size, to which the contribution may be applied, until there remains no such statutory award to which the contribution has not been applied.”.