Amendment of the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20006
In regulation 15(10)—
a
at the end of the definition of “child” insert the words “and, in the case of a student in respect of whom the first academic year of the course (not being an end-on course) begins on or after 1st September 2000 and who falls within paragraph 3(1)(a) of Part II of Schedule 3, any child of his partner who is dependent on him”; and
b
after the definition of “dependent” insert the following definition:
“partner” means a woman ordinarily living with a man student as his wife or a man ordinarily living with a woman student as her husband;