Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 141
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
The Education (Supply of Student Support Information to Governing Bodies) Regulations 2006
Made
25th January 2006
Laid before Parliament
2nd February 2006
Coming into force
1st March 2006
The Secretary of State for Education and Skills makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45 and 47(5) of the Higher Education Act 2004( 1 ):
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Supply of Student Support Information to Governing Bodies) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st March 2006.
2. In these Regulations—
“2004 Act” means the Higher Education Act 2004 ;
“applicant” means a person who makes a student support application;
“applicant’s sponsor” means an applicant’s parent or partner or an applicant’s parent’s partner who is required under the student support scheme( 2 ) to provide information in connection with the applicant’s student support application;
“governing body” means a person falling within section 45(2)(a) of the 2004 Act;
“student support application” means an application for support payable under the student support scheme for an academic year commencing on or after 1st September 2006;
“student support authority” means—
the Secretary of State;
any authority falling within section 45(7)(b) of the 2004 Act; and
any person falling within section 45(7)(c) of the 2004 Act.
Supply of student support information
3. —(1) Subject to regulation 4, a student support authority may supply student support information of a description prescribed in regulation 5 to a governing body for the purposes prescribed in paragraph (2).
(2) The prescribed purposes are the purposes of assisting the governing body—
(a) to determine whether the applicant is eligible for a bursary (or other form of financial assistance) offered by that body and if so, the amount of bursary (or other form of financial assistance) payable to the applicant; and
(b) to pay to the applicant the amount of bursary (or other form of financial assistance) the governing body has determined to be payable to him.
Prescribed student support information only to be supplied with consent
4. —(1) A student support authority may supply student support information of the description prescribed in regulation 5(a) or (c) only with the consent of the applicant.
(2) A student support authority may supply student support information of the description prescribed in regulation 5(b) only with the consent of the applicant’s sponsor.
Prescribed student support information
5. Student support information is of the prescribed description if it is—
(a) information supplied to a student support authority by the applicant in connection with his student support application;
(b) information supplied to a student support authority by the applicant’s sponsor in connection with the applicant’s student support application;
(c) information which relates to—
(i) the applicant’s status as an eligible student, eligible part-time student or eligible postgraduate student( 3 ) for the purposes of the student support scheme;
(ii) the applicant’s qualification for financial support payable under the student support scheme;
(iii) the calculation of the amount of financial support payable to the applicant under the student support scheme; or
(iv) the amount of financial support payable to the applicant under the student support scheme.
Bill Rammell
Minister of State
Department for Education and Skills
25th January 2006
Student support scheme is defined in section 45(8) of the Higher Education Act 2004. The most recent regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 are the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/119 ).
“Eligible student”, “eligible part-time student” and “eligible postgraduate” student are currently defined in the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/119 ).