The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2005 No. 298

EDUCATION

The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made

13th June 2005

Coming into operation

11th July 2005

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, commencement and interpretation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 11th July 2005.

2.  In these Regulations, “the 2003 Regulations” means the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(4).

Amendment of the 2003 Regulations

3.  The 2003 Regulations shall be amended as provided by regulations 4 and 5.

4.  In regulation 11 (Maximum amounts of grants), in paragraph (1)(j) for “£1,050” there shall be substituted “£1,075”.

5.  In regulation 4 (Eligible students), in paragraph (2) –

(a)at the beginning of sub-paragraph (c)(i) there shall be inserted “Subject to sub-paragraph (g)”;

(b)after sub-paragraph (f) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

“(g)he is, on or after 1st September 2005, commencing a degree in social work course at an educational institution in Northern Ireland as a Regional Social Work Degree Trainee under arrangements made by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety under Article 44 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(5).”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 13th June 2005.

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 further amend the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (“the principal Regulations”) as amended by the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2004 (“the amending Regulations”).

Regulation 4 corrects a drafting error.

Regulation 5 expands regulation 4(1)(c)(i) of the principal Regulations, substituted in the amending Regulations, and includes a new sub-paragraph (g) to exclude Regional Social Work Degree Trainees commencing Social Work Degree courses on or after 1st September 2005 from financial support under the Regulations.

(1)

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

(2)

S.I. 1998/1760 (N.I. 14) as amended by the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21), section 147(3)(a) and (b)

(3)

S.R. 1999 No. 481; see Article 5(b) and Schedule 3 Part II