
1998 No. 262
EDUCATION
The Education (Student Loans) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998
Made 24th July 1998
Coming into operation 1st August 1998
The Department of Education, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 3(2) of and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 to the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Student Loans) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st August 1998.
Amendment of the Education (Student Loans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998
2 
The Education (Student Loans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998  shall be amended as follows—
(a) in regulation 3(1), in the definition of “accelerated course” the words following the words “of two academic years' duration” shall be deleted;
(b) in regulation 4, after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a) and Schedule 1 if a person withdraws from a designated course (“the first course”) provided by any institution with the agreement of that institution without completing the course and if, disregarding any intervening vacation, he immediately commences attending another designated course (‘the second course’) provided by the same or by a different institution the first day of the first course shall be regarded as the first day of the second course; or, as the case may be, as the first day of any subsequent course which the student has commenced attending in the same fashion.”
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Education on
Neill Jackson
Assistant Secretary
24th July 1998.