NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 57/14

Student Financial Assistance Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Student Financial Assistance Act
(O.C. 2014-211)

(Filed July 30, 2014)

Under the authority of section 16 of the Student Financial Assistance Act, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following regulations.

Dated at St. John's, July 29, 2014.

Julia Mullaley
Clerk of the Executive Council

REGULATIONS

Analysis

        1.   S.4 Amdt.
Amount of financial assistance

        2.   Commencement

NLR 105/03
as amended

        1. (1) Subsection 4(2) of the Student Financial Assistance Regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

             (2)  For the year commencing August 1, 2014 and ending July 31, 2015, financial assistance issued to a qualifying student shall be issued in the manner and amounts as follows:

             (a)  first, an amount of not more than $40 per week of a period of study in student loan; and

             (b)  second,

                      (i)  an amount of not more than $100 per week of a period of study in a non repayable grant, or

                     (ii)  where the qualifying student is enrolled in medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland, an amount of not more than $125 per week of a period of study in a non repayable grant; and

             (c)  third, where the qualifying student is enrolled in medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland, a further amount of not more than $35 per week of a period of study in student loan.

             (2)  The regulations are amended by adding immediately after subsection 4(2) the following:

             (3)  Commencing August 1, 2015, financial assistance issued to a qualifying student shall be issued in the manner and amounts as follows:

             (a)  an amount of not more than $140 per week of a period of study in a non repayable grant; or

             (b)  where the qualifying student is enrolled in medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland, an amount of not more than $200 per week of a period of study in a non repayable grant.

             (4)  Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (3), where a qualifying student is enrolled in a program of study outside the province, financial assistance issued to the qualifying student shall be issued first in an amount of not more than $60 per week of a period of study in student loan and second in an amount of not more than $80 per week of a period of study in a non repayable grant unless the minister determines that

             (a)  the qualifying student's program of study is not offered in the province;

             (b)  the qualifying student is enrolled in graduate studies;

             (c)  the qualifying student's program of study differs substantially from any program of study offered in the province;

             (d)  the qualifying student does not meet the minimum entry requirement for his or her program of study in the province but meets the requirements for substantially the same program outside the province;

             (e)  the qualifying student applied to do his or her program of study in the province but was denied entry due to limited spaces in that program;

             (f)  the qualifying student received transfer credits toward advanced standing into his or her program of study, resulting in a reduced length of time for that program;

             (g)  the qualifying student's partner has undertaken studies outside the province and he or she meets a requirement under one or more of paragraphs (a) to (f); or

             (h)  there is another reason that the minister considers to be appropriate.

Commencement

        2. These regulations come into force on August 1, 2014.

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