The Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Amendment of regulation 29 (time for and amount of repayments)

10.  In regulation 29(1)—

(a) in paragraph (7), after “(8)” insert “, (8B)”;

(b) after paragraph (8A) insert—

“(8B) Subject to paragraph (9), the repayment threshold in relation to a Scottish student loan is that set out in regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Repayment of Student Loans (Scotland) Regulations 2000 as that regulation had effect on the day on which these Regulations come into force(2).”;

(c) for paragraph (9) substitute—

“(9) The repayment threshold is that set out in paragraph (7)(a) or (b) (as the case may be) where—

(a) a borrower has a post-2012 student loan and a student loan which is neither a post-2012 student loan nor a Scottish student loan;

(b) a borrower has—

(i) a student loan which is neither a post-2012 student loan nor a Scottish student loan; and

(ii) a Scottish student loan;

(c) a borrower has—

(i) a student loan which is neither a post-2012 student loan nor a Scottish student loan;

(ii) a post-2012 student loan; and

(iii) a Scottish student loan.

(10) The repayment threshold where a borrower has a post-2012 student loan and a Scottish student loan is that set out in paragraph (8B).”.

(1)

Regulation 29 was amended by S.I. 2012/1309, 2013/607, 2014/651, 2017/831 and 2018/284; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(2)

S.S.I. 2000/110, amended by S.S.I. 2012/22, 2016/82 and 2021/8; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.