
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Students Awards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 31st August 1999.
2 
The Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 shall be amended as follows.
3 
In Schedule 3—
(a) in paragraph 3(1) to (3) before the word “award” on each occasion it occurs there shall be inserted the word “old”; and
(b) after sub-paragraph (4) the following paragraph shall be inserted—“
(4A) A transitional award shall terminate at the end of the first year of the course.”
4 
In paragraph 1(1)(d) of Schedule 7—
(a) after the word “disability” the words “or incapacity” shall be inserted; and
(b) all the words following the words “or by any other person” shall be deleted.
5 
In Schedule 9 to the Regulations—
(a) in paragraph 1(2) for the words “for which he is in gainful employment” there shall be substituted the words “during which the student is employed”; and
(b) in paragraph 2 after the words “the prescribed proportion of” the word “the” shall be inserted.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Education on
Neill Jackson
Assistant Secretary
27th August 1999.