(1) Schedule 1 to the Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Modifications of Income Support Regulations) is amended as follows.
(2) In Table A, in the modifications of regulation 62 of the Income Support Regulations (calculation of grant income)—
(a) before the first entry, insert—
In paragraph (1) for “subject to paragraphs (2) and (2A)” substitute “subject to paragraphs (2), (2A) and (2C)”
(b) after the entry inserted by paragraph (a) of this regulation, insert—
After paragraph (2B) insert—
(2C) There shall also be disregarded from a student’s grant income—
(a) any sum in excess of the sum set out as the maintenance grant amount in regulation 57(4)(b) of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2006 (new system students with full entitlement) which forms part of a maintenance grant paid pursuant to regulation 48 of those Regulations (qualifying conditions for the maintenance grant);
(b) any sum in excess of the sum set out as the maintenance grant amount in regulation 33(4)(b) of the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (maximum amount of loans for new system eligible students with full entitlement) which forms part of a maintenance grant paid pursuant to regulation 29 of those Regulations (maintenance grant); and
(c) any sum in excess of the sum set out as the maintenance grant amount in regulation 57(4)(b), (c) or (d), as appropriate, of the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (new system students with full entitlement) which forms part of a maintenance grant paid pursuant to regulation 49 of those Regulations (qualifying conditions for the maintenance grant).
(c) omit the entries that begin “In paragraph (3) from the beginning”, “In paragraph (3)(a)” and “In paragraph (3)(b)”;
(d) after the entry inserted by sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph, insert—
For paragraph (3) substitute—
(3) In calculating the weekly amount of the grant to be taken into account as income—
(a) except where sub-paragraph (b) or paragraph (4) applies, the grant shall be apportioned equally between 52 weeks; and
(b) in the case of a grant which is payable in respect of the final academic year of the course or if the course is only of one academic year’s duration, in respect of that year the grant shall be apportioned equally between the weeks in the period beginning with the start of the final academic year or, as the case may be, the single academic year and ending with the last day of the course.
(e) for the entry that begins “In paragraph (3A)”, substitute “Omit paragraph (3A)”;
(f) for the entry that begins “In paragraph (4)”, substitute—
In paragraph (4), for “weeks in the period beginning” to “last day of the period of study” substitute “remaining weeks in that period of study.”
(3) In Table A in the modifications of regulation 66A of the Income Support Regulations (treatment of student loans), before the first entry insert—
In paragraph (1), after “hardship loan”, insert “or any sum paid by way of an additional loan under regulation 10 of the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (maximum amounts of loans) .”
