Fee contribution loans (for old system eligible students)E+W
22.—(1) An old system eligible student qualifies for a fee contribution loan in respect of an academic year of a designated course if—
(a)the old system eligible student qualifies for a grant for fees in respect of that year or would have qualified if the old system eligible student had applied for the grant (even if the amount would have been nil); and
(b)the designated course is provided by or on behalf of an institution that was publicly funded as at 1 August 2005.
(2) Where an old system eligible student applies for a grant for fees and a fee contribution loan, the amount of the fee contribution loan in respect of an academic year of the designated course is the amount for which the old system eligible student applies not exceeding the amount deducted from the old system eligible student’s grant for fees in accordance with regulation 67.
(3) Where the only fee support for which an old system eligible student applies is a fee contribution loan, the amount of that loan in respect of an academic year of a designated course is—
(a)the amount for which the old system eligible student applies not exceeding £1,380 or, if any of the circumstances in regulation 17(4) apply, £680, where the course is provided by an institution in Wales, England or Scotland; or
(b)the amount for which the old system eligible student applies not exceeding £1,425 or, if any of the circumstances in regulation 17(4) apply, £700, where the course is provided by an institution in Northern Ireland.
(4) An old system eligible student may apply to borrow an additional amount of fee contribution loan where—
(a)the Welsh Ministers determine that the maximum amount of fee contribution loan which has been notified to the old system eligible student in relation to an academic year should be increased (including an increase from nil) as a result of a reassessment of the old system eligible student’s contribution or otherwise; and
(b)the Welsh Ministers consider that the increase in the maximum amount does not result from the old system eligible student—
(i)failing to provide information promptly which might affect the old system eligible student’s ability to qualify for a fee contribution loan for which the old system eligible student qualifies; or
(ii)providing information which is inaccurate in any material particular.
(5) The additional amount in paragraph (4) is an amount which when added to the amount already applied for does not exceed the increased maximum.
(6) Where an old system eligible student has applied for a fee contribution loan of less than the maximum amount to which the old system eligible student is entitled in relation to the academic year, the old system eligible student may apply to borrow an additional amount which, when added to the amount already applied for, does not exceed the relevant maximum applicable in the old system eligible student’s case.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 22 in force at 10.1.2014, see reg. 1(2)