The Education (Fees and Awards) (England) Regulations 2007

Interpretation E+W+S

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 2005 Act” means the Education Act 2005 M1 ;

“academic year” means the period of twelve months beginning on 1^st January, 1^st April, 1st July or 1^st September of the calendar year in which the academic year of the course in question begins according to whether that academic year begins on or after 1^st January and before 1^st April, on or after 1^st April and before 1^st July, on or after 1^st July and before 1^st August or on or after 1^st August and on or before 31^st December, respectively;

“award” means a fees award or a maintenance award or both;

“education” includes post-graduate research otherwise than in the course of employment;

“employment” means full-time or part-time employment;

“European Community” means the territory comprised by the Member States of the European Community as constituted from time to time;

“European Economic Area” means the area comprised by the EEA States;

“fees award” means an award in respect only of any fees payable other than any element of those fees which is a charge for maintenance;

“HEFCE” means the Higher Education Funding Council for England M2 ;

“the Islands” means the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man;

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“maintenance award” means any award other than a fees award;

“overseas territories” means Anguilla; Aruba; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Faroe Islands; French Polynesia; French Southern and Antarctic Territories; Mayotte; Greenland; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten); Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie & Oeno Islands; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; St Helena and Dependencies (Ascension Island and Tristan de Cunha); St Pierre et Miquelon; the Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies; Turks and Caicos Islands and Wallis and Futuna;

“post-compulsory education award” means a scholarship, exhibition, bursary or other allowance granted by a local education authority under the Local Education Authority (Post-Compulsory Education Awards) Regulations 1999 M3 ;

“training provider” means a person who provides training for members of the school workforce under Part 3 of the 2005 Act;

(2) Despite section 11 of the Interpretation Act 1978 M4 section 3(2) of the Education (Fees and Awards) Act 1983 (references to the United Kingdom to include references to the Islands) shall not apply for the purposes of interpreting these Regulations.

[F2 (3) For the purposes of these Regulations, “parent” includes a guardian and any other person having parental responsibility for a child and “child” is to be construed accordingly.] 

(4) For the purposes of these Regulations, a person is to be treated as ordinarily resident in England, England and Wales, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom and Islands, in the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland, in the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the overseas territories, or in the territory comprising the [F3 European Economic Area, Switzerland, Turkey and the overseas territories] if he would have been so resident but for the fact that—

(a) he;

(b) his spouse or civil partner;

(c) his parent; or

(d) in the case of dependent direct relative in the ascending line, his child or child's spouse or civil partner,

is or was temporarily employed outside the area in question.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), temporary employment includes—

(a) in the case of members of the regular naval, military or air forces of the Crown, any period which they serve outside the United Kingdom as members of such forces;

(b) in the case of members of the regular armed forces of an EEA State or Switzerland, any period which they serve outside the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland as members of such forces; and

(c) in the case of members of the regular armed forces of Turkey, any period which they serve outside the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Turkey as members of such forces.

(6) For the purposes of Regulations 6, 7, 8 and 9 a person is to be treated as ordinarily resident in England, England and Wales, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom and Islands, in the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland, in the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the overseas territories, or in the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Turkey if he would have been so resident but for the fact that—

(a) he;

(b) his spouse or civil partner;

(c) his parent; or

(d) in the case of a dependent direct relative in the ascending line, his child or his child's spouse or civil partner,

was temporarily receiving full-time education outside the area in question.

(7) For the purposes of these Regulations an area which—

(a) was previously not part of the European Community or the European Economic Area; but

(b) at any time before or after these Regulations come into force has become part of one or the other or both of these areas,

is to be considered to have always been a part of the European Economic Area.

[F4 (8) For the purposes of these Regulations a person who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom as a result of having moved from the Islands for the purpose of undertaking a course is to be considered to be ordinarily resident in the Islands.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (1.9.2010) by virtue of The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (England) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1941), arts. 1, 19(2)

F2 Reg. 2(3) substituted (9.2.2011) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/87), regs. 1(2), 6 (with reg. 13(1))

F3 Words in reg. 2(4) substituted (1.9.2007) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2263), regs. 1, 6(a)

F4 Reg. 2(8) inserted (1.9.2007) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2263), regs. 1, 6(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 2005 c.18.

M2 established under section 62 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.

M3 S.I. 1999/229, amended by S.I. 2000/2057, and revoked in relation to Wales by S.I. 2002/1856.

M4 1978 c.30.