PART IV GRANTS FOR LIVING COSTS

Eligibility for grants for living costs
12. (1) An eligible student shall not be eligible for grant for living costs under this Part if he is a person mentioned in paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 and not in any other paragraph of that Schedule.
(2) An eligible student shall not be eligible for grant for living costs under this Part in respect of any academic year—
(a) during which he is eligible to receive any payment under a bursary or award of similar description bestowed on him under section 63 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 or article 44 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 the amount of which is calculated by reference to his income; or
1968 c. 46; section 63 was amended by the National Health Services Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Schedule 4, paragraph 124 and Schedule 5, the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, paragraph 45 and Schedule 16, the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), Schedule 16, paragraph 26(2) and Schedule 17, the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 2, 2 and Schedule 1, Part I, paragraph 19(3), the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), section Schedule 17, the Family Practitioner Committees (Consequential Modifications) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/39), the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 20, section 25(2) and Schedule 3, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 1, paragraph 95(1) and (2), the Local Government Reorganisation (Wales) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1008), the Schedule, paragraph 1, and the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 1(4).
S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14).
(b) of a course for the initial training of teachers referred to in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 during which the periods of full-time attendance, including attendance for the purpose of teaching practice, are in aggregate less than 6 weeks.
(3) With the exception of grant under regulation 14 an eligible student shall not be eligible for grant for living costs under this Part in respect of any academic year of a sandwich course during which the periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks and the periods of experience are not—
(a) unpaid service in a hospital or in a public health service laboratory in the United Kingdom;
(b) unpaid service with a local authority in the United Kingdom acting in the exercise of their functions relating to health, welfare or the care of children and young persons or with a voluntary organisation providing facilities or carrying out activities of a like nature in the United Kingdom;
(c) unpaid service in the prison or probation and aftercare service in the United Kingdom;
(d) unpaid research in an institution in the United Kingdom or, in the case of a student attending an overseas institution as a necessary part of his course, in an overseas institution; or
(e) unpaid service with—
(i) a Health Authority established pursuant to section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977 a Special Health Authority established pursuant to section 11 of that Act;
1977 c. 49; section 8 was substituted by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), section 1(1).
Section 11 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 1, paragraph 31, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), Schedule 10 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 2.
(ii) a Health Board or a Special Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or
1978 c. 29; section 2 was amended by the Health and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 7, paragraph 1, and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 28 and Schedule 9, paragraph 19(1).
(iii) a health and social services board established under article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.
S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14).
(4) An eligible student shall be eligible for a grant for living costs in respect of—
(a) an academic year during which—
(i) his course becomes a designated course,
(ii) he or his spouse or parent is recognised as a refugee or is granted leave to enter or remain as mentioned in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, or
(b) any academic year which begins after the events referred to in paragraph (a)
but shall not be eligible for a grant for living costs in respect of any other academic year.