The Education (Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017

4.  In Schedule 5 (financial assessment)—

(a) in paragraph 5—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2), after “sub-paragraph (3)” insert “and sub-paragraph (4A)”;

(ii) after sub-paragraph (4) insert—

“(4A) If an eligible student’s household income is determined by reference to the residual income of two parents under paragraph 3(2)(a), the references in sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) to the residual income of A are to be construed as if they were references to the aggregate of the residual incomes of both parents.”;

(b) in paragraph 6(1), after “(other than sub-paragraphs” insert “(4A),”;

(c) in paragraph 7—

(i) the existing text becomes sub-paragraph (1);

(ii) after that sub-paragraph insert—

“(2) But in the application of sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) of paragraph 5 to the determination of a new eligible student’s parent’s partner’s residual income, references to A’s residual income in those sub-paragraphs are to be construed as if they were references to the aggregate of the residual incomes of the new eligible student’s parent and the new eligible student’s parent’s partner.”