Student Allowances Regulations 1998

20 Maximum periods of allowances

• (1) No student is entitled (except in the circumstances described in this regulation and in regulations 21, 22, and 30(3)) to receive for more than the following period allowances continued by regulation 3:

  • (a) 92 weeks, if the allowances are for any recognised course or courses of study leading to the completion of any recognised programme or programmes that are a full-time course or courses of secondary instruction:

  • (b) 200 weeks, if the allowances are for any other recognised course or courses of study.

  (2) The period of 92 weeks specified in subclause (1)(a)—

  • (a) commences when a student first receives an allowance continued by regulation 3 in respect of the course or courses specified in subclause (1)(a); but

  • (b) does not include any period when no allowance of that type is paid.

  (3) The period of 200 weeks specified in subclause (1)(b)—

  • (a) commences when a student first receives an allowance continued by regulation 3 in respect of the course or courses specified in subclause (1)(b); but

  • (b) does not include any period when no allowance of that type is paid.

  (4) For the purposes of subclauses (1) to (3), the recipient of an allowance continued by regulation 3 is deemed not to have received any payments under it in respect of a course of study if that recipient withdraws from the course before the commencement of his or her final examination period and, with the chief executive's consent, ensures all payments made to the recipient in respect of the course under the allowance are refunded to the chief executive before the following deadline:

  • (a) within 12 months of the commencement of the course, where it is a full academic year long; and

  • (b) before the end of the course, in every other case.

  (5) No recipient of an allowance continued by regulation 3 is entitled to receive, or may receive, despite anything in these regulations, any payments under that allowance in respect of any period during which he or she undertakes paid employment that is recognised as fulfilling part of the requirements of the recognised course of study in respect of which the allowance was awarded.

  (6) The period of 92 weeks specified in subclause (1)(a) or, if applicable, the period of 200 weeks specified in subclause (1)(b) must be reduced, for a student who has been paid a basic grant, independent circumstances grant, or accommodation benefit before 1 January 1999, by the number of weeks calculated under regulation 48.

  (7) The chief executive may, where he or she considers that in any particular case special circumstances exist, grant a person eligibility for an allowance continued by regulation 3 for a period longer than the period of 92 weeks specified in subclause (1)(a) or, if applicable, the period of 200 weeks specified in subclause (1)(b).

  (8) Subclauses (1) to (7) are subject to regulation 47A(c) (which relates to an application after 30 September 2010 for an allowance for a course commencing before 1 January 2011).

  Regulation 20: substituted, on 1 October 2010, by regulation 8 of the Student Allowances Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2010 (SR 2010/291).