S.I. No. 311/1992:

SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1992.

SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS CONTROL PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1992.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 (No. 1 of 1981 ) and by section 28 of the Social Welfare Act, 1991 (No. 7 of 1991) as amended by section 48 of the Social Welfare Act, 1992 (No. 5 of 1992)) hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Control Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1992.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Control Provisions) Regulations, 1991 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Control provisions) Regulations, 1991 to 1992.

2. The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Control Provisions) Regulations, 1991 ( S.I. No. 196 of 1991 ) are hereby amended by the substitution for Part IV of the following Part:

"PART IV

Provision of Information

10. For the purposes of this Part--

"academic year" means a period in which a course of instruction or part of a cycle of education takes place in a calendar year or a period in which a course of instruction or part of a cycle of education commences in one calendar year and finishes in the next following calendar year;

"institution of higher education" means

( a ) a university,

( b ) a college of a university,

( c ) any institution which the Minister for Education has designated in regulations made pursuant to section 1 of the Higher Education Authority Act, 1971 (No. 22 of 1971) as an institution of higher education for the purposes of that Act,

( d ) any institution to which the National Council for Education Awards Act, 1979 (No. 30 of 1979) applies,

( e ) any institution established under the Regional Technical Colleges Act, 1992 (No. 16 of 1992),

( f ) any institution incorporated under the Dublin Institute of Technology Act, 1992 (No. 15 of 1992), or

( g ) any institution which is not an institution for the puposes of sub-paragraphs (a) to (f) and to which the Higher Education Grants Acts, 1968 (No. 24 of 1968) and 1978 (No. 26 of 1978) apply.

11. (1) Every institution of higher education shall, on request, provide the Minister with such of the following information as the Minister may request in respect of each person who is registered as a student at such institution at the commencement of each academic year or who registers with the said institution after the commencement of the relevant academic year--

( a ) name,

( b ) address,

( c ) date of birth,

( d ) nature of the course of study being pursued,

( e ) duration of the course of study being pursued,

( f ) details of attendance requirements at the institution of higher education during the course of the relevant academic year, and

( g ) details of any grants or payments made to such student by any body, authority, institution or fund.

(2) The information requested in sub-article (1) of this article shall be submitted by the institution of higher in such format as is acceptable to the Minister.

(3) The information reequested in sub-article (1) of this article shall be sent, within 30 days of the receipt of a request for such information from the Minister, to such office of the Department of Social Welfare as may be specified by the Minister.".

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this 19th day of October, 1992.

CHARLIE McCREEVY,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

Under existing provisions certain institutions of higher education are obliged to provide the Minister with details of all students who are registered with the institutions at the start of each academic year. These Regulations extend this obligation to all institutions of higher education including Regional Technical Colleges and institutions of the Dublin Institute of Technology.