The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) (Wales) Regulations 2023 No. 1349 (W. 243)

PART 6 Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018

CHAPTER 6 Amendments to grants for dependants – distance learning students

54.  In regulation 69(2), after Exception 7 insert—

“Exception 8

The present course is a distance learning course and the student (“S”) is not in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.

But this exception does not apply where—

(a) S is not in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course because S, or a close relative of S, is serving as a member of the armed forces outside Wales, or

(b) S is unable to be in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course for a reason related to coronavirus.”