The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019

Amendments to regulation 110

34.  In regulation 110 (eligible postgraduate students)—

(a) in paragraph (11A)(b), for “person with leave to enter or remain” substitute “person granted stateless leave”;

(b) after paragraph (12) insert—

“(12A) Where—

(a) the Welsh Ministers have determined that, by virtue of being a person with section 67 leave to remain or the child of such a person, a person (“A” in this paragraph) was an eligible postgraduate student in connection with an application for support for an earlier year of the present postgraduate course or an application in connection with another designated postgraduate course from which A’s status as an eligible postgraduate student has been transferred to the present postgraduate course; and

(b) as at the day before the academic year in respect of which A is applying for support starts, the period for which the person with section 67 leave to remain is allowed to stay in the United Kingdom has expired and no further leave to remain has been granted and no appeal is pending (within the meaning of section 104 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002),

A’s status as an eligible postgraduate student terminates immediately before the first day of the first academic year in respect of which A is applying for support.”;

(c) in paragraph (13), for “Paragraphs (11) and (12)” substitute “Paragraphs (11), (11A), (12) and (12A)”.