The Students' Allowances (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/1348
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Students' Allowances (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st August 1990.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Students' Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 1987 .

Section 2 Amendments to principal Regulations

The following sub-paragraph shall be substituted for regulation 2(6)(a) of the principal Regulations:–

(a) the student was in receipt of training in pursuance of training programmes and schemes operated from time to time by or on behalf of the Manpower Services Commission, the Training Commission or the Secretary of State; or

Section 3 Amendments to principal Regulations

At the beginning of regulation 5(d) of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the words “at the date of the Secretary of State receiving his application for an allowance”.

Section 4 Amendments to principal Regulations

In regulation 5(e) of the principal Regulations–

(a) the word “and” shall be deleted at the end of sub-paragraph (i);

(b) the word “and” shall be inserted at the end of sub-paragraph (ii); and

(c) the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (ii):–

(iii) has not been ordinarily resident in the British Islands throughout the 3 years immediately preceding the relevant date, save that this sub-paragraph shall not exclude from eligibility a person as to whom the Secretary of State is satisfied that he has been so resident for any part of that period wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education,

Section 5 Amendments to principal Regulations

The following paragraphs shall be inserted after regulation 7(1) of the principal Regulations:–

(1A) It shall be a condition of payment of an allowance for an academic year that an application in writing is received by the Secretary of State by such date as he may determine in respect of that year, and different dates may be determined by him in respect of different courses.

(1B) The Secretary of State may treat an application received after any date determined for the purposes of paragraph (1A) as having been received by that date where he considers that, having regard to the circumstances of the particular case, it should be so treated.