The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

3.  In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “Erasmus year”—

(i) in sub-paragraph (b), omit “or Scotland”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), for “or Wales”, substitute “, Scotland or Wales”;

(b) after the definition of “long courses loan”, insert—

““non-regulated institution” means an institution in Wales that does not have a fee and access plan in force approved by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales under section 7 of the Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015(1);”;

(c) for the definition of “ordinary duration”, substitute—

““ordinary duration” means the number of academic years that a standard student would take to complete the course excluding any academic years of the course that are—

(a)

bursary years;

(b)

Erasmus years of a course provided by an institution in Northern Ireland; or

(c)

Erasmus years of a course provided by an institution in England, Scotland or Wales where the course began before 1st September 2012;

(d)

Erasmus years of a course provided by an institution in Scotland where the course began on or after 1st September 2012 and where the Erasmus year begins before 1st August 2017;”;

(d) after the definition of “refugee”, insert—

““regulated institution” means an institution that has a fee and access plan in force approved by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales under section 7 of the Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015;”;

(e) in the definition of “standard academic year”—

(i) in sub-paragraph (b), omit “or Scotland”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), for “or Wales”, substitute “, Scotland or Wales”;

(iii) after sub-paragraph (c), insert—

“(d) an Erasmus year of a course provided by an institution in Scotland where the course began on or after 1st September 2012 and where the Erasmus year begins before 1st August 2017;”.

(1)

2015 anaw. 1.