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9.—(1) A person (the “applicant”) must apply for support in connection with each academic year of a designated course by completing and submitting to the Department an application in such form and accompanied by such documentation as the Department may require.
(2) The Department may take such steps and make such inquiries as it considers necessary to determine whether the applicant is an eligible student, whether he qualifies for support and the amount of support payable, if any.
(3) The Department must notify the applicant of whether he qualifies for support and, if he does qualify, the amount of support payable in respect of the academic year, if any.
10.—(1) The general rule is that the application must reach the Department within a period of nine months beginning with the first day of the academic year in respect of which it is submitted.
(2) The general rule does not apply where—
(a) one of the events listed in regulation 16 occurs after the first day of the academic year in respect of which the applicant is applying for support, in which case the application must reach the Department within a period of nine months beginning with the day on which the relevant event occurred;
(b) the applicant is making a separate application for a fee loan, a fee contribution loan, a loan for living costs or a college fee loan or is applying for an additional amount of fee loan under regulation 23(4) or (10), an additional amount of fee contribution loan under regulation 34(5), an additional amount of loan for living costs under regulation 77(3) or an additional amount of college fee loan under regulation 86, in which case the application must reach the Department not later than one month before the end of the academic year to which the application relates;
(c) the applicant is applying to borrow an additional amount of fee contribution loan under regulation 34(3) or an additional amount of loan for living costs under regulation 77(1), in which case the application must reach the Department not later than one month before the end of the academic year to which the application relates or within a period of one month beginning with the day on which the applicant receives notice of the increased maximum amount, whichever is the later;
(d) the applicant is applying for the disabled students’ allowance, in which case the application must reach the Department as soon as is reasonably practicable; or
(e) the Department considers that having regard to the circumstances of the particular case the time limit should be relaxed, in which case the application must reach the Department not later than such date as it specifies.
11. Schedule 4 deals with the provision of information.
12. A current system student qualifies for a fee loan in respect of the fees payable by him in connection with his attendance on a designated course in accordance with Chapter 2 of this Part.
13.—(1) An old system student qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of the fees payable by him in connection with his attendance on a designated course in accordance with Chapter 3 of this Part.
(2) An old system student qualifies for a fee contribution loan in respect of the fees payable by him in connection with his attendance on a designated course in accordance with Chapter 4 of this Part.
14. To receive a loan for fees payable under this Part, an eligible student must enter into a contract with the Department.
15. Where one of the events listed in regulation 16 occurs in the course of an academic year—
(a) a student may qualify for fee support in accordance with this Part in respect of that academic year provided that the relevant event occurred within the first three months of the academic year; and
(b) fee support is not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.
16. The events are—
(a) the student’s course becomes a designated course;
(b) the student, his spouse, his civil partner or his parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain;
(c) a state accedes to the European Community where the student is a national of that state or a family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 2) of a national of that state;
(d) the student becomes a family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 2) of an EC national;
(e) the student acquires the right of permanent residence;
(f) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 2; or
(g) the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.
17.—(1) A student to whom this regulation applies is treated as if he were in attendance on the designated course for the purpose of qualifying for fee support.
(2) This regulation applies to—
(a) a compressed degree student; or
(b) a disabled student who—
(i) is not a compressed degree student; and
(ii) is undertaking a designated course in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland but is not in attendance because he is unable to attend for a reason which relates to his disability.
18.—(1) A current system student does not qualify for fee support in respect of a designated course if—
(a) he has an honours degree from an institution in the United Kingdom and the exemption in regulation 36(1) or (2) does not apply; or
(b) he has an honours degree from an institution in the Republic of Ireland for which he received financial support under previous regulations and the exemption in regulation 36(1) or (2) does not apply; or
(c) the designated course is a flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) (a) and (b), a current system student qualifies for fee support in respect of a course leading to a degree in social work at an educational institution in Northern Ireland.
(3) A current system student does not qualify for a fee loan in respect of:—
(a) an academic year of a designated course that is a bursary year or an Erasmus year; or
(b) a year for which he is in receipt of funding from the Department to participate in a management development programme known as the Business Education Initiative.
(4) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of a designated course, the Department must determine the “standard entitlement”.
(5) The standard entitlement is calculated in accordance with regulation 19, 20, 21 or 22.
(6) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of a designated course, the Department must allocate a fee loan from the standard entitlement first to the final standard academic year of the course and then to each preceding standard academic year in turn until the standard entitlement is exhausted or a fee loan has been allocated to each standard academic year of the course.
(7) A current system student qualifies for a fee loan in respect of a standard academic year of the designated course if the Department allocates a fee loan to that year when assessing the application for support for that year.
(8) In addition to the standard entitlement, a current system student who falls within regulation 21 qualifies for a fee loan in respect of the first academic year that he takes of the designated course that is not a bursary year or an Erasmus year if he failed to complete the most recent previous course because of compelling personal reasons.
(9) Where a current system student qualifies for a fee loan under paragraph (8), the Department must not allocate a fee loan under paragraph (6) to the first academic year that the student takes of the designated course that is not a bursary year or an Erasmus year.
(10) In addition to the standard entitlement, if the Department determines that the student is repeating an academic year of the designated course because of compelling personal reasons, a current system student qualifies for a fee loan in respect of the year of repeat study provided that the academic year that the student is repeating was a qualifying year of study and the year of repeat study is not a bursary year.
(11) A current system student qualifies for a fee loan in respect of an academic year of a designated course that is a year of repeat study which the student is taking other than for compelling personal reasons if—
(a) the academic year which he is repeating was a qualifying year of study;
(b) the academic year of repeat study is not a bursary year; and
(c) when the academic year of repeat study is added to the number of any other academic years of repeat study that the student has already taken on the current course other than for compelling personal reasons, it does not exceed the number of additional years of support.
(12) In this regulation, the “number of additional years of support” is the number of years which make up the standard entitlement less the number of standard academic years (plus one where the student qualifies for a fee loan under paragraph (8)).
(13) The amount of the fee loan in respect of an academic year is determined in accordance with regulation 23 and may be nil.
19. Subject to regulation 20, the standard entitlement of a current system student who has not studied on a previous course is calculated as follows—
where
OD is the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the course.
20.—(1) Where the current course is a course leading to a degree in social work at an educational institution in Northern Ireland, the standard entitlement of a current system student is as follows—
where
OD is the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the current course.
(2) Paragraph (1) also applies where—
(a) the current course in relation to that student falls under paragraph (a) of the definition of “end-on course”; or
(b) the student has studied on a previous course other than a course mentioned in sub-paragraph (a).
(3) Where this regulation applies, regulations 21 and 22 do not apply.
21.—(1) The standard entitlement of a current system student who has studied on a previous course and who does not fall within regulation 22 is calculated as follows—
where
OD is the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the course
PC is the number of academic years that the student has spent on previous courses.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation, a “current system student who has studied on a previous course” includes a current system student who has had his status as an eligible student transferred to the current course as a result of one or more transfers of that status by the Department pursuant to regulations made under Article 3 of the Order from a designated course which—
(a) is a previous course; and
(b) the student began on or after 1st September 2006.
22.—(1) This regulation applies to—
(a) a current system student who is on an end-on course of the kind described in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of “end-on course” in regulation 2;
(b) a current system student who —
(i) has completed a full-time course mentioned in paragraph 2 or 3 of Schedule 3;
(ii) is on a full-time first degree course (other than a first degree course for the initial training of teachers) that he did not begin immediately after the course referred to in paragraph (i); and
(iii) has not taken a full-time first degree course after the course referred to in paragraph (i) and before the current course;
(c) a current system student who—
(i) has completed a full-time foundation degree course;
(ii) is on a full-time honours degree course that he did not begin immediately after the course referred to in paragraph (i); and
(iii) has not taken a full-time first degree course after the course referred to in paragraph (i) and before the current course.
(2) Regulations 19, 20 and 21 do not apply to students to whom this regulation applies.
(3) The standard entitlement of a student to whom this regulation applies is calculated as follows—
where
D is the greater of 3 and the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the course
X is 1 where the ordinary duration of the preliminary course was less than three years and 2 where the ordinary duration of the preliminary course was three years
PrC is the number of academic years that the student spent on the preliminary course excluding any years of repeat study for compelling personal reasons.
23.—(1) Unless one of the cases set out in paragraph (3) applies, the amount of a fee loan in respect of an academic year of a designated course must not exceed the lesser of—
(a) £3,070; and
(b) the fees payable by the student in connection with that year.
(2) In the cases set out in paragraph (3), the amount of a fee loan in respect of an academic year of a designated course must not exceed the lesser of—
(a) £1,535; and
(b) the fees payable by the student in connection with that year.
(3) The cases are—
(a) the final academic year of a designated course where that academic year is normally required to be completed after less than 15 weeks’ attendance;
(b) in respect of a sandwich course, an academic year—
(i) during which any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks; or
(ii) if in respect of that academic year and any previous academic years of the course the aggregate of any one or more periods of attendance which are not periods of full-time study at the institution (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks;
(c) in respect of a course for the initial training of teachers, an academic year during which any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks;
(d) in respect of a course provided in conjunction with an overseas institution, an academic year—
(i) during which any periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland are in aggregate less than 10 weeks; or
(ii) if in respect of that academic year and any previous academic years of the course the aggregate of any one or more periods of attendance which are not periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks;
(e) an academic year of a course provided by the Institute where the course began before 1st September 2001.
(4) If a student’s status as an eligible student is transferred from one designated course to another under these Regulations and the circumstances in paragraph (5) apply, the student may apply to the Department to borrow an additional amount by way of a fee loan in respect of the academic year of the course to which he transfers.
(5) The circumstances are—
(a) the fees payable in respect of the academic year of the course to which the current system student transfers exceed the fees payable in respect of the academic year of the course from which the student is transferring; and
(b) the academic year of the course to which the current system student transfers does not begin on a later date than the academic year of the course from which he is transferring.
(6) If a student’s status as an eligible student is transferred from one designated course to another under these Regulations and the circumstances in paragraph (7) apply, the student may apply to the Department for another fee loan in respect of the academic year of the course to which he transfers.
(7) The circumstances are that the academic year of the course to which the current system student transfers begins on a later date than the academic year of the course from which he is transferring.
(8) Where the circumstances in paragraph (5) apply, the maximum additional amount that the current system student may borrow in respect of the academic year to which he transfers, provided that he qualifies for a fee loan in respect of that year, is determined by deducting the amount of any fee loan he has taken out under these Regulations in respect of the academic year from which he is transferring from the lesser of—
(a) £3,070 or, where one of the cases set out in paragraph (3) applies, £1,535; and
(b) the fees payable by the student in respect of the academic year to which he is transferring.
(9) Where the circumstances in paragraph (7) apply, the maximum amount of fee loan that a current system student may borrow in respect of the academic year to which he transfers provided that he qualifies for a fee loan in respect of that year is the lesser of—
(a) £3,070 or, where one of the cases set out in paragraph (3) applies, £1,535; and
(b) the fees payable by the student in connection with that year.
(10) Where a current system student has applied for a fee loan of less than the maximum amount available in relation to an academic year, he may apply to borrow an additional amount which when added to the amount already applied for does not exceed the relevant maximum applicable in his case.
24.—(1) This regulation applies to an old system student who began a designated course before 1st September 2006 and is continuing on that course after 31st August 2007 (a “continuing student”), or began a designated course on or after 1st September 2006 at a relevant institution of higher education in the Republic of Ireland and is continuing on that course after 31st August 2007.
(2) A continuing student does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of any academic year of the course that begins on or after 1st September 2007 where in the course of assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of the designated course that began before 1st September 2006 the Department determined in accordance with regulations made under Article 3 of the Order that the student did not qualify for fee support in respect of the designated course.
(3) A continuing student does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of a designated course if the designated course is a flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers.
(4) A continuing student does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of an academic year of a designated course that is a bursary year or an Erasmus year.
(5) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of the designated course, the Department must determine the “standard entitlement”.
(6) The standard entitlement is calculated as follows—
where
SAY is the number of standard academic years of the designated course that begin after 31st August 2006
X is the number of academic years of the designated course that begin after 31st August 2006 in respect of which the Department determined in accordance with regulations made under Article 3 of the Order that the student did not qualify for a grant for fees in the course of assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of the designated course that began before 1st September 2006.
(7) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of the designated course, the Department must allocate a grant for fees from the standard entitlement first to the final standard academic year of the course and then to each preceding standard academic year in turn until the standard entitlement is exhausted or a grant for fees has been allocated to each standard academic year of the course.
(8) A continuing student qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of a standard academic year of the designated course if the Department allocates a grant for fees to that year when assessing the application for support for that year.
(9) The amount of the grant for fees in respect of an academic year is determined in accordance with regulation 30, 31 or 32 and may be nil.
25.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this regulation applies to an old system student who—
(a) began a designated course on or after 1st September 2006 and is continuing on that course after 31st August 2007; or
(b) begins a designated course on or after 1st September 2007,
having had his status as an eligible student transferred to the course as a result of one or more transfers of that status by the Department pursuant to regulations made under Article 3 of the Order from a designated course that he began before 1st September 2006 (a “transferring student”).
(2) This regulation does not apply where an eligible student has transferred from a course in relation to which he was a gap year student to another designated course in accordance with regulations made by the Department under Article 3 of the Order.
(3) Where in the course of assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of the relevant course, the Department determined in accordance with regulations made under Article 3 of the Order that the student did not qualify for fee support in respect of that course, a transferring student does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of any academic year of the current course.
(4) In this regulation, the “relevant course” is the designated course that the student was taking as at 31st August 2006.
(5) A transferring student does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of a designated course if the designated course is a flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers.
(6) A transferring student does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of an academic year of a designated course that is a bursary year or an Erasmus year.
(7) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of a designated course, the Department must determine the “standard entitlement”.
(8) The standard entitlement is calculated as follows where the course began before 1st September 2007 and is not a course listed in paragraph (11)—
where
RAY is the number of standard academic years of the relevant course that remain after 31st August 2006
X is the number of academic years of the relevant course that remain after 31st August 2006 in respect of which the Department determined in accordance with regulations made under Article 3 of the Order that the student did not qualify for a grant for fees in the course of assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of the relevant course where that year began before 1st September 2006.
(9) The standard entitlement is calculated as follows where the course begins on or after 1st September 2007 and is not a course listed in paragraph (11)—
where
RAY is the number of standard academic years of the relevant course that remain after 31st August 2006
X is the number of academic years of the relevant course that remain after 31st August 2006 in respect of which the Department determined in accordance with regulations made under Article 3 of the Order that the student did not qualify for a grant for fees in the course of assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of the relevant course where that year began before 1st September 2006
SS is the number of academic years of study that the student has taken from and including 1st September 2006 in respect of which he qualified for fee support (excluding any years of repeat study for compelling personal reasons) or which were bursary years or Erasmus years.
(10) The standard entitlement is calculated as follows where the course is one listed in paragraph (11)—
where
OD is the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the designated course.
(11) The courses are—
(a) a course for the degree (including an honours degree) of Bachelor of Education where the student has transferred to that course from a course for the Certificate in Education on or before the completion of the latter course; or
(b) a course for the honours degree of Bachelor of Education where the student has transferred to that course from a course for the degree (other than an honours degree) of Bachelor of Education on or before the completion of the latter course.
(12) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of a designated course, the Department must allocate a grant for fees from the standard entitlement first to the final standard academic year of the course and then to each preceding standard academic year in turn until the standard entitlement is exhausted or a grant for fees has been allocated to each standard academic year of the course.
(13) A transferring student qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of a standard academic year of the designated course if the Department allocates a grant for fees to that year when assessing the application for support for that year.
(14) The amount of the grant for fees in respect of an academic year is determined in accordance with regulation 30, 31 or 32 and may be nil.
26.—(1) An old system student who is on an end-on course of the kind described in paragraph (a) of the definition of “end-on course” in regulation 2 that he began before 1st September 2006 qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of that course in accordance with regulation 24.
(2) An old system student who is on an end-on course of the kind described in paragraph (c) of the definition of “end-on course” in regulation 2 qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of that course in accordance with regulation 24.
(3) Paragraphs (4) to (12) apply to—
(a) an old system student in respect of an end-on course of the kind described in paragraph (a) of the definition of “end-on course” in regulation 2 that he —
(i) began on or after 1st September 2006 and is continuing on after 31st August 2007; or
(ii) begins on or after 1st September 2007;
(b) an old system student in respect of an end-on course of the kind described in paragraph (b) of the definition of “end-on course” in regulation 2.
(4) An old system student to whom this paragraph applies does not qualify for fee support in respect of a course mentioned in paragraph (3)—
(a) he has an honours degree from an institution in the United Kingdom and the exemption in regulation 36(1) or (2) does not apply; or
(b) he has an honours degree from an institution in the Republic of Ireland for which he received financial support under previous regulations and the exemption in regulation 36(1) or (2) does not apply; or
(c) the designated course is a flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers.
(5) Notwithstanding paragraph (4)(a) and (b) an old system student qualifies for fee support in respect of a course leading to a degree in social work at an educational institution in Northern Ireland.
(6) An old system student to whom this paragraph applies does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of an academic year of a course mentioned in paragraph (3) that is a bursary year or an Erasmus year.
(7) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of a course mentioned in paragraph (3), the Department must determine the “standard entitlement”.
(8) Subject to paragraph (9), the standard entitlement is calculated as follows—
where
D is the greater of 3 and the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the course
X is 1 where the ordinary duration of the preliminary course was less than three years and 2 where the ordinary duration of the preliminary course was three years
PrC is the number of academic years that the student spent on the preliminary course excluding any years of repeat study for compelling personal reasons.
(9) The standard entitlement of an old system student to whom paragraph (3)(a) applies whose course is a course leading to a degree in social work at an educational institution in Northern Ireland is calculated as follows—
where
OD is the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the current course.
(10) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of a course to which this paragraph applies, the Department must allocate a grant for fees from the standard entitlement first to the final standard academic year of the course and then to each preceding standard academic year in turn until the standard entitlement is exhausted or a grant for fees has been allocated to each standard academic year of the course.
(11) An old system student to whom this paragraph applies qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of a standard academic year of a course to which this paragraph applies if the Department allocates a grant for fees to that year when assessing the application for support for that year.
(12) The amount of the grant for fees in respect of an academic year of a course to which this regulation applies is determined in accordance with regulation 30, 31 or 32 and may be nil.
27.—(1) This regulation applies to an old system student who is a gap year student who has not studied on a previous course.
(2) A gap year student does not qualify for fee support in respect of a designated course if—
(a) he has an honours degree from an institution in the United Kingdom and the exemption in regulation 36(1) or (2) does not apply; or
(b) he has an honours degree from an institution in the Republic of Ireland for which he received financial support under previous regulations and the exemption in regulation 36(1) or (2) does not apply; or
(c) the designated course is a flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2)(a) and (b) an old system student qualifies for fee support in respect of a course leading to a degree in social work at an educational institution in Northern Ireland.
(4) A gap year student does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of an academic year of a designated course that is a bursary year or an Erasmus year.
(5) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of a designated course, the Department must determine the “standard entitlement”.
(6) The standard entitlement is calculated as follows—
where
OD is the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the course.
(7) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of a designated course, the Department must allocate a grant for fees from the standard entitlement first to the final standard academic year of the course and then to each preceding standard academic year in turn until the standard entitlement is exhausted or a grant for fees has been allocated to each standard academic year of the course.
(8) A gap year student qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of a standard academic year of the designated course if the Department allocates a grant for fees to that year when assessing the application for support for that year.
(9) The amount of the grant for fees in respect of an academic year is determined in accordance with regulation 30 or 31 and may be nil.
28.—(1) This regulation applies where—
(a) an old system student is a gap year student who has studied on a previous course;
(b) an old system student has transferred from a course in relation to which he was a gap year student to another designated course in accordance with regulations made by the Department under Article 3 of the Order.
(2) An old system student to whom this regulation applies does not qualify for fee support in respect of a designated course if—
(a) he has an honours degree from an institution in the United Kingdom and the exemption in regulation 36(1) or (2) does not apply; or
(b) he has an honours degree from an institution in the Republic of Ireland for which he received financial support under previous regulations and the exemption in regulation 36(1) or (2) does not apply; or
(c) the designated course is a flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2)(a) and (b) an old system student qualifies for fee support in respect of a course leading to a degree in social work at an educational institution in Northern Ireland.
(4) An old system student to whom this regulation applies does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of an academic year of a designated course that is a bursary year or an Erasmus year.
(5) When assessing an application for support in respect of an academic year of a designated course, the Department must determine the “standard entitlement”.
(6) Subject to paragraph (7), the standard entitlement is calculated as follows—
where
OD is the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the course
PC is the number of academic years that the student has spent on previous courses.
(7) The standard entitlement of an old system student to whom paragraph (6) applies whose course is a course leading to a degree in social work at an educational institution in Northern Ireland is calculated as follows—
where
OD is the number of academic years that make up the ordinary duration of the current course.
(8) When assessing an application for support in connection with an academic year of a designated course, the Department must allocate a grant for fees from the standard entitlement first to the final standard academic year of the course and then to each preceding standard academic year in turn until the standard entitlement is exhausted or a grant for fees has been allocated to each standard academic year of the course.
(9) An old system student to whom this regulation applies qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of a standard academic year of the designated course if the Department allocates a grant for fees to that year when assessing the application for support for that year.
(10) In addition to the standard entitlement, an old system student to whom this regulation applies qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of the first academic year that he takes of the designated course that is not a bursary year or an Erasmus year if he failed to complete the most recent previous course because of compelling personal reasons.
(11) Where an old system student to whom this regulation applies qualifies for a grant for fees under paragraph (10), the Department must not allocate a grant for fees under paragraph (8) to the first academic year that the student takes of the designated course that is not a bursary year or an Erasmus year.
(12) The amount of the grant for fees in respect of an academic year is determined in accordance with regulation 30 or 31 where the eligible student falls within paragraph (1)(a) and in accordance with regulation 30, 31 or 32 where the eligible student falls within paragraph (1)(b) and in either case the amount may be nil.
29.—(1) In addition to the standard entitlement, if the Department determines that the student is repeating an academic year of the designated course because of compelling personal reasons, an old system student qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of the year of repeat study provided that the academic year that the student is repeating was a qualifying year of study and the year of repeat study is not a bursary year.
(2) An old system student qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of an academic year of a designated course that is a year of repeat study which the student is taking other than for compelling personal reasons if—
(a) the academic year which he is repeating was a qualifying year of study;
(b) the academic year of repeat study is not a bursary year; and
(c) when the academic year of repeat study is added to the number of any other academic years of repeat study that the student has already taken on the current course other than for compelling personal reasons, it does not exceed the number of additional years of support.
(3) In this regulation, the “number of additional years of support” is the number of years which make up the standard entitlement less the number of standard academic years (plus one where the student qualifies for a grant for fees under regulation 28(10)).
30.—(1) Unless one of the cases set out in regulation 23(3) applies, the basic amount of the grant for fees in respect of an academic year of a designated course at a publicly-funded institution is the lesser of—
(a) £1,225; and
(b) the fees payable by the student in connection with that year.
(2) In the cases set out in regulation 23(3), the basic amount of the grant for fees in respect of an academic year is the lesser of—
(a) £610; and
(b) the fees payable by the student in connection with that year.
(3) Where a contribution exceeding nil is calculated under Schedule 5, a deduction will be made from the basic amount of the grant for fees determined under paragraph (1) or (2) in accordance with regulation 92.
(4) Paragraphs (1) to (3) do not apply to designated courses at Heythrop College or at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
(5) In the case of a designated course at Heythrop College, the amount of the grant for fees in respect of an academic year is £2,195.
(6) In the case of a designated course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the amount of the grant for fees in respect of an academic year is £4,455.
(7) In the case of a course in respect of an academic year at a relevant institution of higher education in the Republic of Ireland, the amount of grant is an amount specified by the Department in writing.
The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007