The Assembly Learning Grants (European Institutions) (Wales) Regulations 2006

[F1 Eligible students E+W

11.— (1) An eligible student qualifies for financial support in connection with his or her attendance on a designated course subject to and in accordance with these Regulations.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a person is an eligible student in connection with a designated course if the National Assembly has determined that—

(a) he or she falls within one of the categories in Part 2 of Schedule 1; and

(b) by reason of merit he or she should be eligible for support in connection with his or her attendance at that course.

(3) A person is not an eligible student if—

(a) subject to paragraph (4), that person has attended a qualifying course;

(b) he or she is in breach of an obligation to repay any loan;

(c) that person has reached the age of 18 and not ratified any agreement for a loan made with him or her when he or she was under the age of 18; or

(d) that person has, in the opinion of the National Assembly, shown by his or her conduct to be a person unfitted to receive support.

(4) Paragraph (3)(a) does not apply where the person has attended a qualifying course but the National Assembly has determined that having regard to the particular circumstances of that person’s case it is appropriate to pay him or her support in connection with the current course.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(b) and (c), “loan” means a loan made under the student loans legislation.

(6) In a case where the agreement for a loan is subject to the law of Scotland, paragraph (3)(c) only applies if the agreement was made—

(a) before 25 September 1991; and

(b) with the concurrence of the borrower’s curator or at a time when he or she had no curator.

(7) An eligible student in respect of whom the first academic year of the course begins on or after 1 September 2000 may not, at any time, qualify for support for more than one designated course.

(8) A person is also an eligible student for the purposes of these Regulations if—

(a) he or she is—

(i) a current student ; or

(ii) a new student; and

(b) no determination was made before 7 July 2006 that he or she should no longer be eligible for support in connection with the current course.

(9) For the purposes of this regulation, “qualifying course” means a course—

(a) which is—

(i) a postgraduate or comparable course; and

(ii) of at least two academic years' duration; and

(b) in respect of which the student received a statutory award other than an award intended to assist with additional expenditure that the student was obliged to incur in connection with his or her attendance on the course by reason of a disability to which he or she is or was subject for at least two academic years of the course.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (with application in accordance with reg. 8 of the amending S.I.) by The Assembly Learning Grants (European Institutions) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2313), reg. 5 (with regs. 6, 7)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 11 in force at 7.7.2006, see reg. 1