21.—(1) This regulation shall apply where the student is a member of a religious order (“the Order”) unless the course is a course of teacher training designated under regulation 10(1)(d)(iii) and regulation 22 applies.
(2) Subject to paragraph (5), the payment in respect of maintenance under regulation 17(b) shall be the sum specified as appropriate in the case of the student in paragraph (3) or (4):
Provided that—
(a)where the course is a sandwich course, the payment in respect of a sandwich year shall be the prescribed proportion of the sum so specified and no payment shall be made in respect of a year which includes no periods of full-time study;
(b)where the course is a part-time course of teacher training designated under regulation 10(1)(d)(ii), the payment shall be three-quarters of the sum so specified.
(3) In the case of a student who resides at his parents' home or in a house of the Order, the appropriate sum shall be£820.
(4) In the case of any other student, the appropriate sum shall be£1,120 except that, where he is attending a course—
(a)at the University of London, or
(b)at an establishment within the area comprising the City of London and the Metropolitan Police District
it shall be£1,320 and where he is attending a course in a country outside the United Kingdom it shall be—
£1,715 if that country is a highest-cost country;
£1,515 if that country is a higher-cost country;
£1,320 if that country is a high-cost country; and
£1,120 in any other case.
(5) The payment in respect of maintenance, determined as aforesaid, shall, in the case of any student who is attending such a course as is mentioned in paragraph 13(1) of Part 2 of Schedule 2 and for the purposes thereof necessarily incurs expenditure in the purchase of special equipment, be increased by so much of that expenditure as does not during the course exceed £90.