Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 1588
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) (Amendment) Regulations 2003
Made
16 June 2003
Laid before Parliament
23rd June 2003
Coming into force
1 September 2003
The Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22(1) and (2), 42(6) and 43(1) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998( 1 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement, interpretation and application
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1 st September 2003.
2. In these Regulations, “the 2000 Regulations” means the Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) Regulations 2000 ( 2 ).
3. The 2000 Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 5 and 6.
4. These Regulations shall not have effect in relation to an academic year (as defined in regulation 2(6) of the 2000 Regulations) which begins before 1 st September 2003.
Amendment of the 2000 Regulations
5. —(1) Regulation 3 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (2)(a), there shall be omitted the words “the amount of which is not calculated by reference to his income”.
(3) After sub-paragraph (iv) in paragraph (2)(a), there shall be added –
“ (v) any allowance, bursary or award made by the General Social Care Council under section 67(4)(a) of the Care Standards Act 2000 ( 3 ) which includes payment for meeting additional expenditure incurred by the student by reason of his disability; or ” .
6. —(1) Regulation 9 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (2) for “£5,245” there shall be substituted “£5,370”.
Alan Johnson
Minister of State
Department for Education and Skills
16 th June 2003
1998 c. 30 . Section 22 was amended by section 146 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21) .
S.I. 2000/2330 . These Regulations were amended by S.I 2000/3087 , S.I. 2001/2300 and S.I. 2002/2104 .