The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1994

Payments

17.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) and regulations 16, 22, 23, 25 and 26, the authority shall in respect of each year pay in pursuance of the award—

(a) in respect of fees, a sum equal to the aggregate of any such fees payable in respect of the student as are described in Schedule 1;

(b) in respect of maintenance—

(i) except in a case in which regulation 20, 21 or 22 applies, a grant calculated in accordance with regulation 18 (in these Regulations called “the maintenance grant”);

(ii) in a case in which one of those regulations applies (subject to regulation 20(2)) a sum or grant determined in accordance with the regulation in question;

and so much of the sum or grant referred to in sub-paragraph (b) as appears to the authority to be appropriate shall be treated as being in respect of the Easter and Christmas vacations.

(2) Where the authority have come under a duty to bestow an award on a person during a year because he has become—

(a) a European student as a result of the accession of the State of which he is a national to the European Community, or

(b) a refugee, or the spouse or child of a refugee, as a result of the recognition of him, or his spouse or parent, as a refugee,

they shall deduct from the sums and grant payable in respect of that year in pursuance of the award under paragraph (1) the amounts referred to in paragraph (3).

(3) The amounts to be deducted under paragraph (2) are—

(a) from the sum payable in respect of fees under paragraph (1)(a) the amount of any instalment payable before the date on which the student became a European student or the refugee was recognised as a refugee, and

(b) from the sum or grant payable in respect of maintenance under paragraph (1)(b) the proportion of that sum or grant which relates to the period before the date referred to in sub-paragraph (a).