The Education (Student Support) ( No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Qualifying conditions for the maintenance grantN.I.

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57.—(1) A current system student qualifies in accordance with this regulation for a maintenance grant in connection with the student’s attendance on a designated course.

(2) A current system student does not qualify for a maintenance grant if the student qualifies for a special support grant.

(3) If a current system student does not qualify for a fee loan [F1or relevant institution charge loan] in respect of an academic year of the designated course, the student cannot qualify for a maintenance grant for that year unless the reason that the student does not qualify for a fee loan [F1or relevant institution charge loan] is that—

(a)the year is an Erasmus year [F2in accordance with regulation 20(3)]; or

(b)the designated course is an old flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers.

[F3(4) Subject to paragraph (5), a maintenance grant is payable to a qualifying student in respect of the four quarters of the academic year.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), where one of the events listed in regulation 18(a), (b), (c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a maintenance grant in respect of such quarters as begin after the relevant event occurs.

(6) Where the state of which the student is a national accedes to the EU the student may qualify for the maintenance grant only if the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course.]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 57 in operation at 17.12.2009, see reg. 1(1)