
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1998.
2 
The Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 shall be amended as provided by regulations 3 to 6.
3 
In regulation 3, in the definition of “old award”, the words “and before 1st September 1999” shall be omitted.
4 
In regulation 8(4)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), the words “which is no longer offered” shall be omitted;
(b) after sub-paragraph (a), there shall be inserted—“
(aa) the person had received an offer of a place on a specified course for a year which begins before 1st September 1998, and—
(i) the board is satisfied that the person was unable to take up that offer because of illness; and
(ii) the person was offered a place on a specified course, whether or not at the same institution, and the first year of the course begins on or after 1st September 1998 and before 1st September 1999;”
(c) in sub-paragraph (b)(iv), for the words “the course” there shall be substituted “a specified course, whether or not at the same institution”.
5 
In regulation 8(5)—
(a) the words “, whether or not it is at the same institution,” shall be omitted;
(b) sub-paragraph (a) shall be omitted;
(c) in sub-paragraph (b), for the words “for the most” there shall be substituted “in”; and
(d) after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be added—“and
(c) where the offer of a place was on a course which is still offered, the other course is at the same institution.”.
6 
In Schedule 5, in paragraph (b) the word “Durham,” shall be omitted.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Education on
Neill Jackson
Assistant Secretary
21st August 1998.