PART IIIPAYMENTS
Courses of teacher training22
1
This regulation shall apply—
a
where the course is a part-time course of teacher training designated under sub-paragraph (d)(ii) or (d)(iii) of regulation 10(1); or
b
where it is a partly full-time and partly part-time course designated under the said sub-paragraph (d)(iii),
unless the student is a member of a religious order, the course is a part-time course of teacher training designated under the said sub-paragraph (d)(ii) and regulation 21 applies.
2
Where the course is designated under the said sub-paragraph (d)(ii), the payment in respect of maintenance under regulation 17(1)(b) shall be a grant equal to three-quarters of the sum otherwise payable.
3
Subject to the following paragraphs, where the course is designated under the said sub-paragraph (d)(iii), the said payment under regulation 17(1)(b) shall be—
a
in a year in which the student’s periods of attendance are all periods of full-time attendance or in which his aggregate period of full-time attendance is 30 weeks or more, the maintenance grant;
b
in a year in which the student’s periods of attendance are all periods of part-time attendance, in the case of an old award, the sum of £325;
c
in any other year, a sum equal to the aggregate of—
i
the proportion of the maintenance grant which the student’s aggregate period of full-time attendance in the year, expressed in weeks, bears to 30, and
ii
in the case of an old award the proportion of £325 which the difference between the said aggregate period and 30 weeks bears to 30.
4
In relation to a student employed full-time as a teacher, paragraph (3) shall have effect except in such a year as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) thereof, as if it provided that the said payment under regulation 17 should be £90;
5
In relation to a student attending a course provided at the University of Oxford or Cambridge, sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) of paragraph (3) shall have effect as if any reference therein to—
a
a period of 30 weeks were a reference to a period of 25 weeks; and
b
the proportion which a period expressed in weeks bears to 30 were a reference to the proportion which that period bears to 25.
6
For the purposes of this regulation a day shall be reckoned as a seventh of a week, and “attendance” means attendance for the purposes of study or teaching practice.