Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

BERMUDA GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS
REGULATIONS 1958

[made under section 5 of the Bermuda Government Scholarships Act 1958 [title 12 item 2] and brought into operation on 30 July 1958]

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

1 Educational test

2 Scholar awarded scholarship prohibited from accepting other local funding

3 Applications for award of Bermuda Government Scholarships, etc.

4 Requirements in respect of applications

5 Payment of annual value of scholarship

6 Method of payment

7 Suspension of payment

8 Appeal to Minister

Educational test

1 (1) The educational test for the Bermuda Government Scholarships shall, until some other test is prescribed by regulations made under the Bermuda Government Scholarships Act 1958 [title 12 item 2], be—

(a) at least two subjects of the General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level or an equivalent qualification from some place other than the United Kingdom, together with a general record of academic achievement adequate to meet the requirements of admission to the appropriate faculty of the University selected; or

(b) a qualification equivalent to that specified in sub-paragraph (a) which has been confirmed by a matriculation authority in the United Kingdom as satisfying their requirements; or

(c) documentary evidence that the candidate has successfully completed an associate degree programme at the Bermuda College; or

(d) documentary evidence that the candidate has successfully completed two years of a post secondary programme which has been approved by the Minister for the purposes of this regulation.

(2) Any candidate who produces to the Permanent Secretary for Education and related matters a certificate or other proof to the effect that he or she has passed the test prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be considered eligible for selection as a scholar, provided that he or she has been educated in Bermuda for at least five years and complies with the other conditions prescribed in the Bermuda Government Scholarships Act 1958 [title 12 item 2], and in these Regulations.

[Regulation 1 amended by BR 32/1996 effective 31 May 1996]

Scholar awarded scholarship prohibited from accepting other local funding

2 A scholarship holder shall not, except in such circumstances as may be approved by the Minister, while he is such holder, accept additional funding from any person or body in Bermuda.

[Regulation 2 substituted by BR 32/1996 effective 31 May 1996]

Applications for award of Bermuda Government Scholarships, etc.

3 Every candidate for a Bermuda Government Scholarship shall, not later than the fifteenth day of April of the year in which the scholarship is to be awarded, or such other date as may be specified by the Permanent Secretary by an advertisement published in the Gazette, make written application to that effect to the Permanent Secretary; and scholarships shall be awarded by the Minister as soon as is reasonably practicable after 15 August of that year.

[Regulation 3 substituted by BR 32/1996 effective 31 May 1996]

Requirements in respect of applications

4 Every candidate making application shall attach to his or her application —

(i) a certificate to the effect that he or she is a Commonwealth citizen:

(ii) a certificate of birth;

(iii) a certificate from the Minister responsible for Immigration affairs and related matters in the case of a candidate who was not born in Bermuda to the effect that at least one of his or her parents possesses Bermudian status under the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act 1956 [title 5 item 16], or that at least one of his or her parents possessed at the time of the death of such parent Bermudian status as aforesaid or Bermudian domicile under the Im migration Act 1937;

(iv) a certificate from the headmaster of the school at which the candidate has been a scholar, or from some other person to be approved by the Board of Education, as to the period during which such candidate has been educated in Bermuda;

(v) a certificate relative to the moral character and skill in athletic games of the candidate, such certificate to be signed by the headmaster of the school at which he or she had been a scholar, or by his or her tutor if the candidate is receiving private tuition, or by any minister of religion, Justice of the Peace or other prominent or well-known person in the community; and

(vi) a certificate from a registered medical practi tioner as to the general health and physical con dition of the candidate.

Payment of annual value of scholarship

5 (1) The annual value of the scholarship shall be paid in two instalments, the first such instalment being two-thirds the annual value of the scholarship and the second such instalment being one-third that value.

(2) The first instalment shall be paid to the scholar as soon as practicable after receipt by the Permanent Secretary of proof of the scholar's registration at an educational institution of further education.

(2A) The second instalment shall be paid to the scholar as soon as practicable after the start of the second term or semester of the candidate's course of study upon receipt by the Permanent Secretary of a certificate from the head of the educational institution at which the scholar is pursuing his studies that the work and conduct of the scholar have been satisfactory, or that he has been prevented from pursuing his studies by serious illness or other unavoidable cause.

(3) Without such certificate as aforesaid the scholarship shall lapse.

(4) If the educational institution at which the scholar pursues his or her studies requires payment to be made otherwise than as pre scribed above, the Board of Education may sanction the payment of the value of the scholarship accordingly.

[Regulation 5 amended by BR 32/1996 effective 31 May 1996]

Method of payment

6 The Board of Education may authorize the payment of any sums of money due to any scholar under the Bermuda Government Scholar ships Act 1958 [title 12 item 2], and under the conditions prescribed by these Regulations, to be made to a scholar or to his or her order, upon receipt by the Permanent Secretary of the certificate specified in regula tion 5.

Suspension of payment

7 The Board of Education may sanction the suspension of the studies of the holder of a Bermuda Government Scholarship for any por tion of the period of his scholarship for any reason or with any object ap proved by the Board of Education, and in any such case a proportionate part of the annual value of the scholarship for the whole or any part of any quarter during which such suspension continues shall be forfeited and shall be retained in the Consolidated Fund; but in any such case the scholar may afterwards resume and continue his or her studies to the end of the period of his or her scholarship, on such terms as to payment of a proportionate part of the annual value of the scholarship for the pe riod during which his or her studies are so resumed and continued as the Board of Education may sanction,

Appeal to Minister

8 Any scholarship holder, or his parent or guardian, who is ag grieved by the decision of the Board of Education under these Regula tions may appeal against such decision to the Minister responsible for education and related matters whose decision thereon shall be final.

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