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54.—(1) The amount of a student’s grant income to be taken into account is, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the whole of that student’s grant income.
(2) There must be excluded from a student’s grant income any payment—
(a)intended to meet tuition fees or examination fees;
(b)in respect of any disability of that student;
(c)intended to meet additional expenditure connected with term time residential study away from the student’s educational establishment;
(d)on account of the student maintaining a home at a place other than that at which the student resides during the course;
(e)on account of any other person but only if the person is residing outside of the United Kingdom and there is no applicable amount in respect of the person;
(f)intended to meet the cost of books and equipment;
(g)intended to meet travel expenses incurred as a result of the student’s attendance on the course;
(h)intended for the child care costs of a child dependant; or
(i)of higher education bursary for care leavers made under Part III of the Children Act 1989.
(3) Where a student does not have a student loan and is not treated as possessing a student loan, there must be excluded from the student’s grant income—
(a)the sum of £303 per academic year in respect of travel costs; and
(b)the sum of £390 per academic year towards the costs of books and equipment,
whether or not any costs are incurred.
(4) There must be excluded from a student’s grant income the grant for dependants known as the parents’ learning allowance paid pursuant to regulations made under article 3 of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 or section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.
(5) Subject to paragraphs (6) and (7), a student’s grant income is to be apportioned—
(a)subject to paragraph (8), in a case where it is attributable to the period of study, equally between the weeks in that period beginning with the reduction week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of the period of study and ending with the reduction week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the period of study; and
(b)in any other case, equally between the weeks in the period beginning with the reduction week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of the period for which it is payable and ending with the reduction week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the period for which it is payable.
(6) Any grant in respect of dependants paid under section 63(6) of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968(1) (grants in respect of the provision of instruction to officers of hospital authorities) and any amount intended for the maintenance of dependants under Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2003(2) is to be apportioned equally over the period of 52 weeks or, if there are 53 reduction weeks (including part-weeks) in the year, 53.
(7) In a case where a student is in receipt of a student loan or where the student could have acquired a student loan by taking reasonable steps but had not done so, any amount intended for the maintenance of dependants to which paragraph (6) does not apply, is to be apportioned over the same period as the student’s loan is apportioned or, as the case may be, would have been apportioned.
(8) In the case of a student on a sandwich course, any periods of experience within the period of study are to be excluded and the student’s grant income is to be apportioned equally between the weeks in the period beginning with the reduction week, the first day of which immediately follows the last day of the period of experience and ending with the reduction week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the period of study.
1968 c.46. Section 63(6) was amended with respect to Scotland by section 20 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c.49) and S.I. 1968/1699.
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