Existing and new award students—supplementary
4.—(1) Where an award student (“the original student”) ceases to attend an institution before the end of the period of award specified in relation to that student the relevant institution may in accordance with paragraph (2) select another student (“the substituted student”) as an award student in substitution for the original student and for the purposes of these regulations the original student and the substituted student shall be treated as the same person provided that the substituted student—
(a)has reached the age of 16 in the case of a dance course, or
(b)has reached the age of 18 in the case of a drama course
at the date of the selection.
(2) Any selection of a substituted student under paragraph (5) shall be on the basis of high ability in, or aptitude for, dance or drama, as the case may be, as demonstrated at the same group of auditions as that at which the original student’s ability or aptitude was demonstrated.
(3) If, before an award student completes his course, a relevant institution is discontinued and an award student at that institution transfers to another relevant institution the Secretary of State may determine that for the purposes of regulations 6 to 8 the student in question should become an award student at the institution to which the student has transferred for the remainder of the period of award specified in respect of that student.
(4) A student cannot be an award student if he has previously been an award student in respect of another course unless the Secretary of State otherwise determines, by reason of his being of the opinion that—
(a)the student having been selected for one course (whether or not he has completed it) should attend another course which is more suitable to the continued development of the student; or
(b)the student was prevented from completing the course for which he was selected due to circumstances outside his control.
(5) The Secretary of State may only make a determination under paragraph (4) if an application is made in writing by the institution at which it is proposed that the student should attend the second course.