Members of religious orders
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) The payment in respect of maintenance under regulation 17(1)(b) in the case of a student upon whom an old award has been bestowed shall be the sum specified as appropriate 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 . . . proportion of the sum otherwise payable in respect of maintenance 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 £730.
(4) In the case of any other student, the appropriate sum shall be £1,000 except that, where he is attending a course—
(a)at the University of London, or
(b)at an institution within the area comprising the City of London and the Metropolitan Police District,
it shall be £1,255 and where he is attending a course in a country outside the United Kingdom it shall be—
£1,445 if that country is a higher-cost country;
£1,085 if that country is a high-cost country; and
£885 in any other case.
(5) In this regulation “prescribed proportion” shall have the same meaning as in Schedule 5 to these Regulations.