The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 121

EDUCATION

The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

3rd March 2003

Coming into operation

4th April 2003

The Department for Employment and Learning(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 3 and 8(4) of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(2) and now vested in it(3) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 4th April 2003.

2.  The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(4) shall be amended in accordance with these Regulations.

Amendments to the Regulations

3.—(1) Regulation 12 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (3)(e)(ii) substitute –

“(ii)a Health Authority or a Strategic Health Authority established pursuant to section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977(5) or a Special Health Authority established pursuant to section 11 of that Act (6);”

4.  In regulation 21(14) for the words “regulation 12(2)(a) and (b)” substitute “regulation 12(2)(a) or (b)”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 3rd March 2003.

L.S.

David McAuley

A senior officer of the

Department for Employment and Learning

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.

The amendment to regulation 12(3)(e)(ii) refers to the new Health Authorities and Strategic Health Authorities established under the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002.

The amendment to regulation 21(14) corrects a minor drafting error.

(1)

Formerly known as the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment; renamed the Department for Employment and Learning by Section 1 of the Department for Employment and Learning Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 c. 15

(3)

Article 5(b) of and Part II of Schedule 3 to the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) (S.R. 1999/481) transferred functions under the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 from the Department of Education to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, now renamed the Department for Employment and Learning

(5)

1977 c. 49; Section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977 was substituted by Section 1 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 c. 17

(6)

Section 11(1) was substituted by Section 65 (1) of and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 c. 8: Section 11(3) was amended by Section 2(1) of and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 c. 17