Amendments relating to students becoming eligible for student support in the course of an academic year
24.—(1) In regulation 85 (students becoming eligible in the course of an academic year: loans for living costs)(1) is amended as follows.
(2) For paragraph (1) substitute—
“(1) Where any of the following events occur in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of which such a loan is payable as begin after the event in question occurs—
(a)a course designation event which results in the student’s course becoming a designated course; or
(b)an in-year qualifying event (other than a settled status event) which results in the student becoming an eligible student.
(1A) Where a protected category event which results in a student becoming an eligible student occurs—
(a)in the course of the first academic year of a course; and
(b)on before the course start date,
the student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of all quarters of that academic year in respect of which a loan for living costs is payable.”.
(3) Omit paragraph (2).