The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018

Qualifying for a tuition fee loan during the academic year

80.—(1) Where one of the events listed in paragraph (2) occurs within 3 months of the first day of the academic year, the student may qualify for a tuition fee loan in respect of that academic year.

(2) The events are—

(a) the present course becomes a designated course;

(b) the student becomes an eligible student on the grounds that—

(i) the student or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain;

(ii) a state accedes to the European Union where the student is a national of that state or a family member of a national of that state;

(iii) the student becomes a family member of an EU national;

(iv) the student acquires the right of permanent residence;

(v) the student becomes a child of a Turkish worker;

(vi) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 2;

(vii) the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.

(3) In this regulation and regulation 81, the following terms have the same meaning as in Schedule 2—

“child” (“plentyn”);

“family member” (“aelod o deulu”) (within the meaning given by paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 2);

“parent” (“rhiant”);

“person with leave to enter or remain” (“person sydd â chaniatâd i ddod i mewn neu i aros”);

“refugee” (“ffoadur”);

“right of permanent residence” (“hawl i breswylio’n barhaol”);

“Turkish worker” (“gweithiwr Twrcaidd”).