Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20097.

For regulation 102 substitute—

“Overpayments of fee support102.

(1)

Any overpayment of fee support is recoverable by the Department from—

(a)

the academic authority; or

(b)

the student in respect of whom the payment of fee support was made.

(2)

An overpayment of a fee loan may be recovered from a student under paragraph (1)(b) in whichever one or more of the following ways the Department considers appropriate in all the circumstances,—

(a)

by subtracting the overpayment from any amount on the fee loan which remains to be paid;

(b)

by requiring the student to repay the fee loan in accordance with regulations made under Article 3 of the Order;

(c)

by taking such other action for the recovery of an overpayment as is available to the Department.”