The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021

Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master’s Degrees) (Wales) Regulations 2019

177.  In regulation 9 (eligible students), for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) A person is an eligible student in connection with a designated course that the person is undertaking if—

(a) the person falls within one of the categories set out—

(i) in paragraph 1, 2, 2A, 2B, 4, 6A, 7A, 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D, 9A or 10A of Schedule 2, or

(ii) in paragraph 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 of Schedule 2 where paragraph (1A) applies, and

(b) none of the exceptions in regulation 10 apply to the person.

(1A) This paragraph applies where—

(a) in connection with a designated course beginning before 1 August 2021 the Welsh Ministers—

(i) in assessing an application for support by a person (“A”) determined that A fell within one of the categories set out in paragraph 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 of Schedule 2 in relation to an academic year of the course beginning before 1 August 2021, or

(ii) would have so determined had A made an application for support in accordance with these Regulations in relation to an academic year of the course beginning before that date, and

(b) A applies for support in connection with—

(i) that course, or

(ii) a designated course to which A’s status as an eligible student is transferred in accordance with these Regulations.”